LECTURE TOPICS:
1. Review of main macroeconomic concepts and relationships
2. Overview of central banking and MP goals
3. MP instruments and transmission mechanisms
4. Simple (New Keynesian) model of optimal MP
5. Data analysis using the MP simulation game
6. Game theory and macroeconomics
7. The interaction of fiscal and monetary policy
8. Institutional framework of MP: Central bank independence, transparency, and accountability
9. Open economy MP, optimal currency areas and monetary unions
10. The Global Financial Crisis
1. Review of main macroeconomic concepts and relationships
2. Overview of central banking and MP goals
3. MP instruments and transmission mechanisms
4. Simple (New Keynesian) model of optimal MP
5. Data analysis using the MP simulation game
6. Game theory and macroeconomics
7. The interaction of fiscal and monetary policy
8. Institutional framework of MP: Central bank independence, transparency, and accountability
9. Open economy MP, optimal currency areas and monetary unions
10. The Global Financial Crisis