ECON642-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025

Monetary Economics: Policy

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 22 June 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 2 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 11 May 2025

Description

The focus of this course is on the conduct of optimal monetary policy in open and closed economies. Various issues in monetary policy under uncertainty are explored. A great deal of attention is devoted to issues pertaining to rules vs. discretion in policy-making. We address topics as diverse as interest rate pegs, nominal income targeting vs. price level/ inflation targeting, collection of seigniorage, central bank independence, and others.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of Department. Recommended Preparation ECON326

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Froyen, Richard T. , Guender, Alfred V; Optimal monetary policy under uncertainty ; Second edition; Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019.

Recommended Reading

Gali, Jordi; Monetary policy, inflation, and the business cycle : an introduction to the new Keynesian framework ; Princeton University Press, 2008.

Walsh, Carl E; Monetary theory and policy ; 3rd ed; MIT Press, 2010.

Woodford, M; Interest and Prices ; Princeton, 2003.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,066.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Department of Economics and Finance .

All ECON642 Occurrences

  • ECON642-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025