Teaching

Economics 7710: Macroeconomics I

Course Description: Basic models of income, employment, and prices.  The models focus on aggregate demand and supply sectors and include an aggregate demand-supply model in which IS-LM underlies aggregate demand, an introduction to the New Keynesian/New Neo-Classical Synthesis model, and an introduction to growth theory.

Economics 7590: Seminar in Monetary and Fiscal Policy

Course Description: Determining, implementing, and evaluating monetary and fiscal policy; effect on the economy, monetary targets and indicators; role of interest rates in understanding monetary policy, sectoral impacts of monetary policy; role of fiscal policy in the economy.

Economics 4710: Aggregate Economic Analysis

Course Description: Factors determining the aggregate level of national income, employment, and prices; short-run and long-run models developed and compared.

Economics 4560: Central Banking and Monetary Policy

Course Description: History, economic functions, operating techniques, and policies of central banks; the role of monetary policy in promoting economic stability and growth; the Federal Reserve System and current problems of monetary policy and control.

Economics 2035: Money, Banking, and Macroeconomic Analysis

Course Description: Role of commercial banks, other financial institutions, and the central bank in affecting the performance of the economy; relationships of money and fiscal policy to prices, production, and employment; internal and external effects of U.S. fiscal and monetary policy.