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DSE4-2CU · Semester 4

Macroeconomics II

CU Semester 4 — IS-LM model, aggregate demand and supply, unemployment, money supply, and monetary policy.

Course Syllabus

  • IS–LM model: equilibrium, stability, and comparative statics
  • Crowding-out effect; effects of fiscal and monetary policy
  • Derivation of the aggregate demand (AD) curve
  • Derivation of aggregate supply (AS) curves: with and without wage rigidity
  • Equilibrium, stability, and comparative statics of AD-AS
  • Unemployment equilibrium: causes and possible solutions including the real balance effect
  • Keynesian versus Classical systems; hybrid models
  • Friedman's restatement of Classical ideas
  • Measures of money supply in India: M1, M2, M3, M4
  • High-powered money: definition, role, and balance sheet of the Reserve Bank of India
  • Balance sheet of commercial banks

Reference Books

  • Dornbusch, R., Fischer, S., & Startz, R. Macroeconomics. McGraw-Hill.
  • Blanchard, O. Macroeconomics. Pearson.

Who Will Teach You

M

Mahima Ma'am

SRCC, DSE, NET Qualified

I

Insiya Ma'am

ISI, MSQe

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