Course details
Monetary and Financial Macroeconomics
ECON 60820A
First, the course allows to study the determination of consumption, investment and asset prices in dynamic general equilibrium models. Second, this class of model is enriched to include nominal rigidities in order to study the effects of conventional and unconventional monetary policies on inflation, employment, and production.
Themes covered
1.Empirical Evaluation of the Effects of Macroeconomic Shocks
2.Consumption and Saving
3.Rational Expectations
4.Asset Pricing
5.Investment Theory
6.Solving Dynamic Models with Rational Expectations
7.Classical Monetary Models
8.Nominal Rigidities
9.Inflation and Monetary Policy
10.New Keynesian Models
11.Optimal Monetary Policies
Important notes
Course in French : ECON 60820
Course code
ECON 60820A
Subject
Économie
Program
Maîtrise en gestion (M. Sc.)
Location
Côte-des-Neiges
Instruction mode
On-site learning
Credits
3