Programme

First Module (30 hours)
1. Money, monetary institutions and the financial markets
2. The demand for money
3. The supply of money and the debate on its endogeneity
4. The equilibrium of the financial sector
5. The structure of the interest rates

Second Module (30 hours)
6. Money, prices, and output
7. The transmission channels of the monetary policies
8. The Gibson Paradox
9. Rules and discretion
10. Money and public finance

Core Documentation

Bank of England, Quarterly Bulletin, Q1, 54, 1, 2014, pp. 4-28 (Module 1)
N.S. Balke and K.M. Emery, “Understanding the price puzzle”, Economic Review— Fourth Quarter 1994, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, pp. 15-26 (Module 2)
R. Ciccone, “Public Debt and Aggregate Demand: Some Unconventional Analytics”, in E.S. Levrero, A. Palumbo and A. Stirati (eds), Sraffa and the Reconstruction of Economic Theory: volume 2. Aggregate Demand, Policy Analysis and Growth, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, pp. 15-28 (Module 2)
B. Friedman, “Crowding Out or Crowding In? Economic Consequences of Financing Government Deficits”, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 3:1978, pp. 599-603 and 609-620 (Module 2)
C.A.E Goodhart, Money, information and uncertainty, Second edition, Macmillan, 1989, pp. 24-50, 51-57, 129-137 (Module 1)
A. Lavoie, Post-Keynesian Economics: New Foundations, Edward Elgar, 2014, pp. 186-225 and 245-252 (Module 1)
M. Pivetti, “Interest and profits in Smith, Ricardo and Marx”, Political Economy. Studies in the surplus approach, 3, 1, 1987, pp. 63-74 (Module 2)
W. Poole, “Optimal Choice of Monetary Policy Instruments in a Simple Stochastic Macro Model”,
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 84, 2, 1970), pp. 197-203 (Module 2)
J. Smithin, The theory of interest rates, in P. Arestis and M. Sawyer, A Handbook of Alternative Monetary Economics, Edward Elgar, 2006, pp. 273-290 (Module 2)
J. Tobin, “Liquidity Preference as Behavior Towards Risk”, The Review of Economic Studies 25, 2, 1958, pp. 65-86 (Module 1)
M. Vernengo, Money and inflation, in P. Arestis and M. Sawyer, A Handbook of Alternative Monetary Economics, Edward Elgar, 2006, pp. 476-489 (Module 1 and 2)
C.E. Walsh, Monetary Theory and Policy, third edition, The Mit Press, 2010, pp. 21-24, 33-71, 134-162, 195-209, 465-475 (Module 1 and 2)
C. E. Walsh, “Teaching Inflation Targeting: An Analysis for Intermediate Macro”, Journal of Economic Education, Fall 2002, pp. 333-346 (Module 2).

Type of evaluation

The course assessment is based on both written and oral examinations. As part of the final assessment, small dissertations on aspects related to the exogeneity or endogeneity of money supply, the Taylor rule, the Gibson Paradox, and the sustainability of public debt may be submitted. During the pandemic crisis, there will be only oral examinations