1 ECON 303 Intermediate Macroeconomics Instructor: Bernard Malamud –Office: BEH 502 Phone (702) 895 –3294 Fax: 895 – 1354 » Website: Office hours: MTWThF 11:20 -12:30 pm; and by appointment

2 Course Objectives Refresh your command of Macroeconomic terminology  eco-talk Macro Facts Schools of thought

Macro Facts: Recession!

Macro Facts: Recessions/Depression

Macro Facts: Unemployment

Macro Facts: Consumer Confidence

Macro Facts: Deflation!?!

Macro Facts: Money Growth

Macro Facts: Bank Excess Reserves

Macro Facts: Federal Debt

Macro Facts: Trade Deficit

Macro Facts: Depreciating Dollar

13 Course Objectives Master MODELS –Demand Side Models  AD Multiplier IS – LM –Supply Side Models  AS Wage setting – Price setting Phillips Curve –Expectations … in theory and practice –Solow Growth Model

14 Variables of Variables of Output … Real GDP Unemployment Inflation … CPI, GDP Deflator –Time-frames of macroanalysis Short-run … sticky prices Medium-run … prices adjust Long-run … capital accumulates Variables of Macroeconomics

15 Where to Find the Numbers

16 Macroeconomics The course is divided in three parts: Short -run / Medium-run / Long-run Short - run: IS / LM  AD IS: Y = C + I + G C = c 0 + c 1 Y D = c 0 + c 1 (Y - T) I = I 0 + b 1 Y - b 2 i  Y = {spending multiplier} x {autonomous spending} LM: (M/P) d = (M/P) s (M/P) d = L(Y,i) M s = [1/(c + r(1-c))]H = {money multiplier} x {monetary base} Medium - run: AD/AS IS/LM  AD PS/WS  AS PS: P = (1+ μ)(W/A) WS: W= P e A e f(u,z) In medium - run, P e = P  (W/P) WS = (W/P) PS = A / (1+ μ)  Natural/Structural/Equilibrium Rate of Unemployment (u n )  “Full - employment” rate of output (Y FE )  The Green Shaft  SRAS and MRAS When AD or AS shift: MR equilibrium  SR equilibrium  P  new MR equilibrium Long - run: Growth Steady state: s(Y/AN) = (δ + g N + g A )(K/AN) For simple Cobb-Douglas function: Y = K α (AN) 1-α  Y/AN = {s/((δ + g N + g A )} α/(1-α) Golden - rule saving rate = α Productivity and equilibrium rate of unemployment: A e = A only in long - run  “Natural rate” decreases with unexpected increase in A