ECON-4192
ECON-4192
Code: ECON-419
Title: Monetary Theory and Policy
Credit Hours: 03
Prerequisite: Intermediate Microeconomics and Intermediate Macroeconomics
Objectives:
The course is intended to provide the students a thorough understanding of monetary theory
monetary policy.
Course Contents
Definition and Tools of Monetary Policy
The Market for Reserves and the Federal Funds Rate; Demand and Supply in the Market for
Reserves, Major Tools of Monetary Policy, Changes in the Tools of Monetary Policy and its
Effect on the Federal Funds Rate.
The Conduct of Monetary Policy: Strategy and Tactics
Monetary Targeting. Advantages of Monetary Targeting, Inflation Targeting, Advantages and
Disadvantages of Inflation Targeting. Choosing the Policy Instrument and Criteria for
Choosing the Policy Instrument. The Tailor Rule. Central Banks Response to Asset-Price
Bubbles: Lessons from Supreme Crisis.
The Foreign Exchange Market
What are Foreign Exchange Rates? Why are Exchange Rates Important? How is Foreign
Exchange Traded? Exchange Rates in the Long Run, Exchange Rates in The Short Run: A
Supply and Demand Analysis. Explaining Changes in Exchange Rates; Shifts in the Demand
for Domestic Assets, Domestic Interest Rate, Foreign Interest Rate, Changes in the Expected
Future Exchange Rate, Recap: Factors That Change the Exchange Rate.
The International Financial System
Intervention in The Foreign Exchange Market, Exchange Rate Regimes in The International
Financial System, Capital Controls, Role of IMF, International Considerations and Monetary
Policy and to Peg and Not To Peg: Exchange Rate Targeting As an Alternative Monetary
Policy Strategy.
Monetary Policy in International Framework
Money Demand and Empirical Evidences. Money in Growth Models. Inflationary Spiral.
Current Issues in Monetary and Financial Sector Reforms. Conduct of Monetary Policy in
Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates. Perfect Mobility of Capital and Money Control,
Effectiveness of Policy. Impact of Reserves on B.O.P and Exchange Rates. Targeting
Exchange Rate. Managed Exchange Rate System and Monetary Policy. Targeting Inflation.
Exchange Rate and Balance of Payment.
Time Inconsistency/CB Independence.
Rules Vs Discretion debate. Monetary Policy Rules, Discretion in monetary policy making,
Central Bank independence and monetary policy under CBI.
VAR Model of Monetary Policy
Introduction to VAR, Representation of VAR and Estimation, Granger Causality Impulse
Response Function, Forecast Error Variance Decompositive.
Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy: The Evidence
Framework For Evaluating Empirical Evidence, Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy
and Lessons For Monetary Policy. Transmission channels: Interest rate channel, Ex-Rate
Channel.
Recommended Books:
Bennett T. McCallum. (1989). Monetary Economics, Theory and Policy, McMillan.
Fredric S. M. (1995). Financial Markets and Money, Harper & Row Publishers.
Laider, David E.W (1996). The Demand for Money: Theories, Evidence and Problems
(Fourth edition), Harper & Row, Publishers, New York.
Miller, R. L. and David VanHose. (2001). Money, Banking & Financial Markets. South
Western, Singapore.
Mishkin, Frederic S. (2001). The Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets.
(Sixth edition). Addison Wesley, New York.
Patinkin Don. Money, Interest and Prices, Harper and Row Publishers, (Latest Edition).