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: MACRO AND MONETARY ECONOMICS THEORY AND POLICY |
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This field is designed to give the student a knowledge of modern macroeconomics and monetary theory and policy, with an emphasis on problems of stabilization policy in a stochastic world with both closed and open economies. Among the issues to be studied are: |
- Inflation, its causes, social costs, and control
- Unemployment, its causes, social costs, and control
- The optimal mix of monetary and fiscal policy
- Optimal stabilization policy
- Supply side economics
- Rational expectations and economic policy
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Required Course Work
Economics 81100, Monetary Theory and Policy
Economics 81500, Special Topics in Macroeconomics |
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Faculty Members and Areas of Research Interest
Terence Agbeyegbe (Hunter), Macroeconomics
John Devereux ( Queens ), Macroeconomics
David Laibman ( Brooklyn ), Growth, Distribution, Technical Change
Alvin Marty (Baruch), Macroeconomics, Monetary Theory
Salih Neftci ( Graduate Center ), Macroeconomics
Thom Thurston ( Queens ), Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics
Merih Uctum ( Brooklyn ), International Finance
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