ECON 316 Open Economy Macroeconomics

18 points. Semester 1.

Overview

This course examines macroeconomic and monetary aspects of international economics, including the balance of payments, the foreign exchange market, international monetary systems, external debt, and the effectiveness of monetary, fiscal and exchange rate policy in an open economy.

As part of the internal assessment for this course involves empirically testing an economic theory, some familiarity with basic regression analysis (i.e., being able to: estimate an OLS regression using, say, Excel; interpret t-statistics; etc.) is expected.

Paper Coordinator

Alan King

Prerequisite

ECON 202

Prerequisite or Corequisite

ECON 201 or ECON 271

Restriction

ECON 302 if passed prior to 1994.

Course Outline

For more information you can download the 2008 Course Outline.

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