M0L0.Zero Hour - MGT1114
M0L0.Zero Hour - MGT1114
Karthick V
Assistant Professor
PRINCIPLES OF Centre for Economic Studies and Policy
Institute for Social and Economic Change
MACROECONOMICS Nagarbhavi post, Bengaluru - 560 072.
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COURSE DETAILS
• Course Code: MGT1114
• Course Title: Principles of Macroeconomics
• 4 Credit course
• 5 Modules
• 9 hours for Module 1
• 12 hours for Module 2
• 15 hours for Module 3
• 12 hours each for Modules 4& 5
• Total hours of instructions: 60
• Class timings:
• Tuesday: 3 – 4 PM
• Thursday: 9 – 10 AM
• Friday: 12 – 1 PM
• Saturday: 10 – 11 PM
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OBJECTIVES To make the students
macroeconomics.
understand the basics of
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MODULE 1: INTRODUCTION MACRO
ECONOMICS AND NATIONAL INCOME
• Introduction
• Concept and Variables of macroeconomics
• National Income, Expenditure, and The Circular
flow, Components of expenditure
• Consumption, Saving and Investment
• S-I approach
• Multiplier (two sectors)
• Numerical examples
• Static macro-economic analysis of short and long-run
• Determination of supply
• Determination of demand
• Conditions of equilibrium
• National Income and Measurements
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MODULE 2 – FISCAL AND
MONETARY POLICY
• Meaning, Objective and Instruments of fiscal
and monetary policy
• Aggregate Demand – Aggregate Supply
approach
• Determination of aggregate demand
• Shifts in aggregate demand
• Aggregate supply in the short and long run,
and
• Aggregate demand – Aggregate supply
analysis
• Economy in the short run IS-LM framework
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MODULE 3 – INFLATION AND
UNEMPLOYMENT
• Inflation, Causes and Effect of rising and falling inflation
• Demand pull and Cost-push inflation and
• Measures to control inflation
• Inflation and interest rates, and
• Social costs of inflation
• Poverty and Unemployment
• Numerical examples and Measurement
• Natural rate of unemployment
• Frictional unemployment
• Labor market and its interaction with the production
system.
• Phillips curve, and
• Role of expectations adaptive and rational.
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MODULE 4 – OPEN ECONOMY: BOP
AND BOT
• Open economy
• Flows of goods and capital
• Saving and Investment in a small and a large open
economy
• Exchange rates
• Fixed and Flexible Exchange rates
• Mundell – Fleming model with fixed and flexible prices
in a Small Open Economy
• Balance of payments
• Trade balance
• Current and Capital Accounts
• Autonomous and accommodating transactions
• Measures to control disequilibrium on BOP
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MODULE 5 – BEHAVIOURAL
FOUNDATIONS
• Behavioral Foundations
• Investment
• Determinants of business fixed investment
• Effect of tax
• Determinants of residential investment and
Inventory investment
• Demand for Money
• Portfolio and transactions theories of
demand for Real balances
• Interest and Income Elasticities of demand
for real balances
• Supply of money
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REFERENCES
Textbooks
1. Dwivedi, D.N, (2015), Macroeconomics – Theory and Policy,
4th edition, Tata McGraw Hill Publications.
2. Gordon, Robert J, (2015), Macroeconomics, 12th edition,
Pearson Education.
References:
1. Sullivan Arthur, O’ (2014), Macroeconomics, 8th edition,
Pearson Education.
2. Moss, David A, (2015), A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics:
What Managers, Executives and Student Need to Know, 2nd
edition, Harvard Business School Press.
3. Mankiw, Gregory N, (2014), Principles of Macroeconomics,
8th edition, Cengage Learning.
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MODE OF EVALUATION
CAT-1 Weightage (in %) 20
CAT-2 Weightage (in %) 20
FAT Weightage (in %) 20
Internal Weightage (in %) 40
Assessment
Total 100 quiz-1 MCQ test 15
quiz-2 MCQ test 15
quiz-3 Assignment presentation 5
Attendance 5
Total 10
Total Internal assessment 40
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All the Best
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