ECON 918: Monetary Economics
Syllabus
Lecture Outlines
- Week 1: Theories of Money Demand
- Week 2: Theories of Money Supply
- Week 3: The Quantity Theory of Money
- Week 4: Rational Expectations and Money
- Week 5: The Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle and Rational Expectations
- Week 6: The Optimal Rate of Inflation
- Week 7: Banking
- Week 8: Credit Markts' Imperfections and Exogenous Central Banking
- Week 9: Endogenous Central Banking: The Public Choice Approach to Money
- Week 10: Privatizing Money, I: Commodity Standards
- Week 11: Privatizing Money, II: Free Banking
- Week 12: Privatizing Money, III: Further Alternatives to Central Banking
- Week 13: The Great Depression
- Week 14: European Unemployment