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TOPICS
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READINGS AND ASSIGNMENTS Acrobat
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Week 1
January
11, 13
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Macroeconomics:
The Big Picture
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Text: Chapters 1, 2, 3,
4 and 6
Chapter 6 Lecture – Macroeconomics: The Big Picture (PPT)
LinkS: Bureau of
Economic Analysis Qatar Planning and Statistics
Authority
Videos: Classical versus
Keynesian Economics Microeconomics and
Macroeconomics The Business Cycle
Problem Set 1 – Due
January 25
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Week 2
January
18, 20
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GDP and the CPI: Tracking the Macroeconomy
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Text: Chapters 6 and 7
Chapter
7 Lecture - GDP AND THE CPI: TRACKING
THE MACROECONOMY
(PPT) GDP
Deflator
LinkS: BEA GDP Data Qatar Ministry of Development
Planning and Statistics GDP Per Capita Data
Videos: Real and Nominal GDP Limitations of GDP What is GDP?
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Week 3
January
25, 27
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Unemployment and Inflation
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Text: Chapter 8
Chapter 8 Lecture –uNEMPLOYMENT AND INFLATION (PPT) Nominal vs. Real interest
Rates
LinkS: Bureau
of Labor Statistics CPI Inflation
Calculator Inflation
Rates Around the World Labor Force
Characteristics Qatar
Unemployment Rate State
Unemployment by Race and Ethnicity
World
Unemployment Rates
Videos: How to Calculate the
Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Inflation Rate Understanding Unemployment
Problem Set 2 – Due February 8
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Week 4
February
1, 3
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Long-run Economic Growth
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Text:
Chapter 9
Chapter
9 Lecture –LONG-RUn ECONOMIC GROWTH (PPT)
LinkS: Real
GDP Growth
Videos: Benefits and Costs of
Economic Growth Economic Growth and
Development - A Comparison
Quiz 1 – February 1
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Week 5
February
8, 10
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Savings, Investment Spending, and the Financial System
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Text:
Chapter 10
Chapter
10 Lecture - Savings, Investment Spending, and the
Financial System (PPT)
Videos: How the Stock Market Works
in 5 Minutes Loanable
Funds Overview of Financial
System
Review for Exam 1
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Exam 1 (Thursday, February 11 from 3:30 PM to 4:45 PM)
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Week 6
February
15, 17
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Savings, Investment Spending, and the
Financial System Cont’d
Income and Expenditure
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Text:
Chapters 10 and 11
Chapter
10 Lecture - Savings, Investment Spending, and the
Financial System (PPT)
Videos:
How the Stock Market Works
in 5 Minutes Loanable
Funds Overview of Financial
System
Chapter 11 Lecture - Income and Expenditure (PPT)
Problem Set 3 – Due
March 8
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Week 7
February
22, 24
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Income and Expenditure
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Text:
Chapter 11
Chapter 11 Lecture - Income and Expenditure (PPT) Understanding
the Multiplier
Determining
equilibrium and the MultiplieRS
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Week 8, Sunday February
28, 2021 – Thursday, March 4, 2021
Spring Break, No
Classes
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Week 9
March
8, 10
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Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
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Text:
Chapter 12
Chapter
12 Lecture - Aggregate Demand and
Aggregate Supply (PPT)
Videos: Aggregate
Demand Aggregate
Supply Shifts
in Aggregate Supply and Demand
Problem Set 4 – Due
March 22
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Week 10
March
15, 17
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Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply Cont’d
Fiscal
Policy
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Text:
Chapters 12 and 13
Chapter
12 Lecture - Aggregate Demand and
Aggregate Supply (PPT)
Chapter 13 Lecture - Fiscal Policy (PPT)
Video: Fiscal
Policy
Quiz
2 – March 17
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Week 11
March
22, 24
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Fiscal
Policy Cont’d
Review
for Exam
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Chapter 13 Lecture - Fiscal Policy (PPT)
Videos: Fiscal
Policy
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Exam 2 (Thursday, March 25 from 3:30 PM to 4:45 PM)
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Week 12
March
29, 31
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Money,
Banking, and the Federal Reserve System
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Text: Chapter 14
Chapter
14 Lecture- Money, Banking, and the Federal Reserve
System (PPT)
Videos: Functions
of Money M1 & M2 Money Supply Banks
and the Banking System Money
Creation in a Fractional Reserve System Tools
of Monetary Policy (Video at bottom of page)
Problem Set 5 – Due
April 12
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Week 13
April
5, 7
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Money,
Banking, and the Federal Reserve System
Continued
Monetary
Policy
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Text: Chapter 15
Chapter 15 Lecture - Monetary Policy (PPT)
Videos: Opportunity
Cost of Money Money
Market and FED Tools (Monetary Policy)
Monetary
Policy Monetary and Fiscal Policy
Additional Videos: Credit Crisis Explained Quantitative Easing
Explained Fear the Boom
and Bust
Links: Federal Reserve
System
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Week 14
April
12, 14
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Inflation,
Disinflation, and Deflation
Macroeconomics:
Events and Ideas
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Text: Chapter 16
Chapter
16 Lecture – Inflation, Disinflation, and Deflation (PPT)
Chapter 17 Lecture
– Macroeconomics: Events and Ideas (PPT)
Videos: Long
run and Short run Phillips curves
Why Don’t We Print More Money
Problem Set 6 – Due
April 21
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Week 15
April
19, 21
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Macroeconomics: Events and Ideas
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Chapter 17 Lecture
– Macroeconomics: Events and Ideas (PPT)
The Quantity Theory
of Money
Videos: Macroeconomic
Schools Supply-Side Economics 101
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Exam Period
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FINAL EXAM
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Final
Exam
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