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Describe the Fed's balance sheet in normal times. How did it change during the financial crisis? Why?
What are three financial reforms that policymakers are considering to improve the functioning of the financial system?
What policy response would you recommend to the Federal Reserve? Analyze the effect of this shock in an IS/MP diagram.
What is the effect of these two shocks on inflation? Show this in a graph of Phillips curve. In late 1920s, average inflation rate was approximately zero.
In a half-page essay, explain the policy action and the rationale behind the policy. Also, discuss briefly a possible criticism of the policy action.
What action did the FOMC take, if any, regarding the level of the fed funds rate? Why did it make this choice?
What has happened to inflation, real GDP growth, and unemployment? What about a key policy interest rate set by the European Central Bank (ECB)?
Are TFP shocks a reasonable explanation for the business cycles we see in modern economies? Why and why not?
What key simplifying assumption allows us to use the labor market block of a DSGE model to study the immediate impact of shocks on economy in that framework?
What happens to the labor demand schedule? What is the effect on the real wage and employment in the short run?
What happens to the labor supply schedule? Why is the net effect on employment ambiguous? What happens to the real wage?
Analyze the effect of the shock in the labor market diagram of a standard DSGE model. How would your answer change if the decline in the VAT was permanent?
What is International political economy? Illustrate and explain the various IPE thought schools? Which of them seems most applicable in the modern age?
Summarize the reasons for the bankruptcy, whether the company is out of bankruptcy, and the results of the bankruptcy. What are your thoughts on the bankruptcy?
What are your thoughts on the Bankruptcy Code? What are the advantages and disadvantages of the Code?
Read the "You Be the Judge" on p. 596 of the text. It is the case of Banta Properties v. Arch Specialty Insurance.
Consider the following endowment Overlapping Generations model where people live two periods.
What is causing the leftward shift in demand for golf?
Construct the AD, SRAS, and LRAS curves for an economy experiencing (a) full employment, (b) an economic boom, and (c) a recession.
Explain the value of economic analysis and differentiate the types of economic environments.
Under what circumstances are price factors more important than non-price factors during a source selection?
How can competitors such as PepsiCo, Nestlé, and local hawkers fight back? What determines the success and failure of Coca-Cola around the globe?
Description of the state of the US economy.
What is the difference between an economy of scale and an economy of scope?
For the most recent date, graph the yield curve. Then explain how yield changes with the maturity of the Treasury security.