Week 3 will help students develop an understanding of what money is what forms money takes how the banking system helps create money and how the Federal Reserve controls the quantity of money. Students will learn how the quantity of money affects inflation and interest rates in the long run and production and employment in the short run. Students will find that in the long run there is a strong relationship between the growth rate of money and inflation. Students will review the basic concepts macroeconomists use to study open economies and will address why a nation’s net exports must equal its net capital outflow. Students will demonstrate the relationship between the prices and quantities in the market for loanable funds and the prices and quantities in the market for foreign-currency exchange. Student will learn to analyze the impact of a variety of government policies on an economy’s exchange rate and trade balance.
Assignment Steps
Resources: National Bureau of Economic Research
Develop a 2100-word economic outlook forecast that includes the following:
Use a minimum of three peer-reviewed sources from the University Library.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.