Parkes' Economics for Business II Assignments, Spring 2012
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Tentative Schedule and Course Assignments:
- Chapter 33: Inflation, Disinflation, and Deflation
- Money and Inflation
- Money and Prices Revisited
- Classical Model of the Price Level
- Inflation Tax
- seigniorage
- Cost, real inflation tax
- Hyperinflation - One Cause: seignoirage
- The Logic of Hyperinflation
- Brazil
- Yugoslavia
- Zimbabwe
- Effects of Inflation
- Winners and Losers from Unexpected Inflation
- Real versus nominal interest rate - The Fisher Effect
- Costs of Inflation
- Moderate Inflation and Disinflation - Definitions and Causes
- The Great Disinflation of the 1980s
- DEFLATION - Today's Issue
- Effects of Unexpected Deflation
- Effects if Expected Deflation
- Examples: Japan, Europe today maybe?
Krugman's Chapter 32 PPT - Second Edition (Old book Chapter 33)
Day 17 PPT - Hyperinflation
May 24, 2012 Chapter 35: Open Economy Macroeconomics
- Chapter 33: Inflation, Disinflation, and Deflation
- Effects of Inflation
- Winners and Losers from Unexpected Inflation
- Real versus nominal interest rate - The Fisher Effect
- Costs of Inflation
- Moderate Inflation and Disinflation - Definitions and Causes
- The Great Disinflation of the 1980s
- DEFLATION - Today's Issue
- Chapter 35: Open Economy Macroeconomics
- The Role of Exchange Rates
- Understanding Exchange Rates
- The Equilibrium Exchange Rate
- Shifts in Demand
Krugman's Chapter 34 PPT - Second Edition (Like our Chapter 35)
Day 18 PPT - Hyperinflation Definition
Week 10
May 29, 2012 Continue Chapter 35: Open Economy Macroeconomics
- Finish Chapter 35: Open Economy Macroeconomics
- Inflation and Real Exchange Rates
- Purchasing Power Parity
- Big Mac Index
- Dollar and the Deficit
- Exchange Rate Policies
- Exchange Rate Intervention and Foreign Exchange Reserves
- Exchange Rate Regime Dilemma: To Fix or Not To Fix
- Examples of fixed rates: Bretton Woods, Euro, Yuan
- Macroeconomic Policies and Exchange Rates
Krugman's Chapter 34 PPT - Second Edition (Like our Chapter 35)
Day 19 PPT - Not available yet
May 31, 2012 REVIEW TODAY!
Final Exam: Chapters 23 - 25, 26, 32, 33 & 35, on Tuesday, June 5, 2012
From 14:15 to 16:15: Rooms: Class 1 - Room 2112; Class 2 - 2212
Do not forget the Solow Growth Model and the ISLM Model!!!
May 17, 2012 Review Chapter 25: Long-run Economic Growth/Solow Growth Model Continued
May 10, 2012 Chapter 32/24: Unemployment and the ISLM
- ISLM - How Interest Rates may be determined with Aggregate Demand
- Aggregate Demand I and II - Chapters 10 & 11: ISLM to Aggregate Demand
- Determination of interest rates
- Affect upon the economic goals
- Monetary Policy in the ISLM framework
- Fiscal Policy in the ISLM framework
- Problem Set 10 - ISLM determination of interest rates
- Chapter 32: Labor Markets and Unemployment (part of Chapter 24 in the 2nd edition)
- Three Types of Unemployment
- Job Creation and Job Destruction
- 1. Frictional
- 2. Structural
- 3. Cyclical
- The Natural Rate of Unemployment
- Unemployment and the business cycle
- Okun's Law
- Krugman's Chapter 32 PPT
- Aggregate Demand I - ISLM Part I
- Aggregate Demand II - ISLM Part II
- Day 14 PPT - No PPT
Week 5 and Week 6
April 24, 2012 Chapter 23: The Big Picture
Chapter 24: Tracking the Economy
April 26, 2012 and May 3, 2012 Chapter 25: Long-Run Economic Growth/Solow Growth Model
Midterm Exam will be on May 4, 2012: From 13:30 to 15:00;
Class 1: Room 2112; Class2: Room 2212
Chapters 14 - 17, 19 and 20: As Covered in class.
Week 4
April 17, 2012 Chapter 19: Externalities
April 19, 2012 Chapter 20: Public Goods and Common Resources
Week 3
April 10, 2012 Chapter 16: Monopolistic Competition and Chapter 8: International Trade
- Chapter 15: Oligopoly continued
- Oligopoly in Practice
- Anti-trust Policies
- Product Differentiation
- Price Leadership
- Read Chapter 16: Monopolistic Competition
- Definition
- Large number of producers
- Differentiated Products
- Free Entry and Exit
- Product Differentiation
- Differentiation by Style or Type
- Differentiation by Location
- Differentiation by Quality
- Monopolistic Competition in the Short-Run
- Review of the 4 types of market structure:
- Perfect Competition
- Monopolistic Competition
- Oligopoly
- Monopoly
- Inefficient or Efficient?
- Advertising
- Brand Names
- Krugman's Chapter 16 PPT - Monopolistic Competition
- Chapter 8: International Trade
- Comparative Advantage and International Trade
- Ricardian Model of International Trade
- Autarky
- Gains from Trade
- Sources of Comparative Advantage
- Differences in Climate
- Differences in Resources - Factor Endowments
- Differences in Technology
- Increasing Returns and International Trade
- Day 5 PPT - U.S. - P.R.C. Trade Statistics (Shown in Class)
- Krugman's Chapter 8 PPT - International Trade
April 12, 2012 Chapter 8: International Trade continued
- Read Chapter 8
- Chapter 8: International Trade
- Comparative Advantage and International Trade
- Sources of Comparative Advantage
- Differences in Climate
- Differences in Resources - Factor Endowments
- Differences in Technology
- Increasing Returns and International Trade
- Supply, Demand, and International Trade
- Import Demand
- Export Supply
- Consumer Surplus and Producer Surplus
- The Effects Imports
- The Effects Exports
- The World Price
- 3 panel diagrams for the world price
- International Trade and Factor Markets
- The Effects of Trade Protection
- The Effects of a Tariff - consumer and producer surplus, tariff revenue and dead weight losses
- The Effects of a Quota - consumer and producer surplus, tariff revenue and dead weight losses
The Political Economy of Trade Protection - Arguments for and Against
Day 6 PPT - Trade Policy (Shown in Class)
Krugman's Chapter 8 PPT - International Trade
Week 2
April 1, 2012 Chapter 14 continued
- REVEIW: Quiz #3 - Monopoly (and PC) making a profit, loss, and shutdown
- Chapter 14 - continued
- Dealing with a Natural Monopoly - how to properly price and regulate a Natural Monopoly
- Elasticity of Demand and Total Revenue
- Price Discrimination
- Elasticity
- Perfect Price Discrimination
- How discrimination is possible, differing geographic areas, etc.
- Day 3 PPT - None provided
- Krugman's Chapter 15 PPT - Oligopoly
April 5, 2012 Chapter 15: Oligopoly
- Read Chapter 15 Oligopoly
- Imperfect Competition and the Prevalence of Oligopoly
- Duopoly
- Collusion and Competition
- Noncooperative Behavior
- Price or Quantity Competition?!
- Quiz #4 - #4 and #5, p. 385-6.
- Game Theory
- The Prisoners' Dilemma
- Payoff Matrix, Dominant Strategy, and Noncooperative Equilibrium
- Nash Equilibrium - John Nash of "It's a Beautiful Mind" movie
- Repeated Games
- Strategic Behavior
- Tit for Tat and Tacit Collusion
- Kinked Demand Curve
- Day 4 PPT - Game Theory (A Primer)
Week 1
March 27, 2012 Chapter 9: Perfect Competition and the Supply Curve
- Review of Perfect Competition
- 4 Characteristics of Perfect Competition
- 1. Price Takers, numerous buyers and sellers, no large market share
- 2. Identical or homogeneous product, standardized product
- 3. No restrictions on entry and exit
- 4. Perfect information - everyone has the same info
- Marginal Revenue, Price, Marginal Cost, Average Variable, Fixed and Total Cost
- Goal? Profit maximization, MR = MC
- 3 conditions to produce
Homework #1: Short-run and Long-run in an Increasing Cost Industry
Day 1 PPT -
Krugman's Chapter 13 PPT - Second Edition
March 29, 2012 Chapter 14: Monopoly
- 4 Types of Market Structure
- A definition of Monopoly - one seller with no close substitutes
- The Monopolist IS the Market! - shown graphically
- Why Monopolies exist:
- Control of a Resource
- Economies of Scale
- Technical Superiority
- Government-Created Barriers
Profit Maximizing Monopolist charges a higher price and produces less than a Perfect Competitor (Fig. 14-6)
Welfare Effects of a Monopoly
Dealing with a Natural Monopoly
Day 2 PPT - Not Available Yet
Krugman & Wells Chapter 14 PPT - Second Edition
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