Monetary Theory and Policy
Course: Economics 470/570
Professor: Mark Thoma
Office/Hours: PLC 471 on T/W/Th 10:00-11:00 a.m.
Phone/Email: (541) 346-4673,
[email protected]
Web Page: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~mthoma/
Text: Frederic S. Mishkin, The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets, 7th edition (Addison Wesley: New York).
Prerequisites: Economics 313 or the equivalent.
GTF, Office Hours, Location, and Email Address:
To be announced on web site
Tests and Grading: There will be two midterm exams and a final. The midterms will be given Tuesday, August 1st and Wednesday, August 9th. The final will be given on Thursday, August 17th from 10:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. No make-up exams will be given. Each midterm is worth 30% and the final is worth 40%. Grades will be assigned according to your relative standing in the class.
Homework: Problem sets will be assigned periodically. These are not
graded, but it is strongly recommended that you do them since exam questions
will be based, in part, upon the problem sets.
Course Outline:
| Introduction | Mishkin Text |
| Introduction | Ch. 1, pgs. 8-13 |
| The Role of Money in the Macroeconomy | Ch. 3, Ch. 4 pgs. 79-82 |
| Central Banking and the Conduct of Monetary Policy | |
| Structure of Central Banks and the Federal Reserve System | Ch. 14 |
| Bank Reserves and the Money Supply | Ch. 15 |
| Determinants of the Money Supply | Ch. 16 |
| Tools of Monetary Policy | Ch. 17 |
| Monetary Theory | |
| The Demand for Money | Ch. 22 |
| The Keynesian Framework | Ch. 23 |
| Monetary and Fiscal Policy | Ch. 24 |
| The AS-AD Model | Ch. 25 |
| Money and Inflation | Ch. 27 |
| Rational Expectations: Theory and Policy Implications | Ch. 28 |
