Download 宏观经济学（双语教学）教学大纲 Macroeconomics syllabus 一、课程的

宏观经济学（双语教学）教学大纲
Macroeconomics syllabus
一、课程的性质和目的
《宏观经济学》是高等学校经济学类专业的核心课程和主要专业基础课，与微观
经济学相对，它是对社会总体经济运行进行分析的基础经济理论。宏观经济学是学
生学习财政学、金融学等相关课程的基础。
通过本课程教学应使学生了解和掌握基本宏观经济理论：西方国民收入核算理
论，国民收入决定理论，产品市场和货币市场一般均衡理论，财政政策和货币政策
分析与实践，各学派不同的理论和政策主张，经济增长理论，通货膨胀理论等。
二、教学的基本要求
通过基本理论的学习，应使学生具备分析宏观经济问题的基本能力，了解国家
宏观经济政策导向和用意，为企业发展和宏观经济决策提出一定水平的宏观经济分
析。
三、课程内容与学时分配
Chapter 20 Overview of Macroeconomics
1、本章重点：
(1) Key concepts of macroeconomics.
(2) The difference between macroeconomics and microeconomics.
2、计划课时：4 学时
§1 Key concepts of macroeconomics.
§2 Aggregate supply and demand.
3、 复习思考题：
(1) During 2000, the chairman of the Board of Government of the Federal Reserve
System, Alan Greenspan, voiced his concern that the unemployment rate, which was
below 5 percent, was getting too low. Because employment is certainly a major concern
of macroeconomics policy, and because job creation is considered a major goal, what is
Mr. Greenspan’s concern? What other goal of macropolicy might be affected by very low
rates of unemployment?
(2) In the 1940’s, you could buy a soda for 5 cents, eat dinner at a restaurant for less
than $1, and purchase a house for $10,000. From this statement, it follows that consumers
today are worse off than consumers in the 1940s. Comment.
Chapter 22 Consumption and Investment
1、本章重点：
1. Learn about some of the important financial institutions in the U.S. economy.
2. Consider how the financial system is related to key macroeconomic variables.
3. Develop a model of the supply and demand for loanable funds in financial
markets.
4. Use the loanable funds model to analyze various government policies.
5. Consider how government budget deficits affect the U.S. economy.
2、计划课时：4 学时
§1 Financial Institutions in the U.S. Economy
A. Financial Markets: The Bond Market, The Stock Market
B. Financial Intermediaries: Banks, Mutual Funds
C. Problems in Measuring the Cost of Living
D. The GDP Deflator versus the Consumer Price Index
§2 Saving and Investment in the National Income Accounts
A. Some Important Identities
B. Supply and Demand for Loanable Funds
§3 The Market for Loanable Funds A.
3、 复习思考题：
1. What is investment? How is it related to national saving?
2. What is a government budget deficit? How does it affect interest rates, investment,
and economic growth?
3. When the Russian government defaulted on its debt to foreigners in 1998, interest
rates rose on bonds issued by many other developing countries. Why do you suppose this
happened?
4. Suppose GDP is $8 trillion, taxes are $1.5 trillion, private saving is $0.5 trillion,
and public saving is $0.2 trillion. Assuming this economy is closed; calculate
consumption, government purchases, national saving, and investment.
Chapter 31 Unemployment and the Foundation of Aggregate Supply
1、本章重点：
(1)Learn about the data used to measure the amount of unemployment.
(2) Consider how unemployment arises from the process of job search.
(3)Consider how unemployment can result from minimum-wage laws.
(4)See how unemployment can arise from bargaining between firms and unions.
(5)Examine how unemployment results when firms choose to pay efficiency wages.
2、计划课时：4 学时
§1 Identifying Unemployment
A. How Is Unemployment Measured?
B. How Long Are the Unemployed without Work?
C. Why Are There Always People Unemployed?
§2 Job Search
A. Why Some Frictional Unemployment Is Inevitable
B. Public Policy and Job Search
C. Unemployment Insurance
D. The GDP Deflator versus the Consumer Price Index
§3 Minimum-Wage Laws
A. Unions and Collective Bargaining
B. The Economics of Unions
§4 Are Unions Good or Bad for the Economy?
§5 The Theory of Efficiency Wages: Worker Health, Worker Turnove,r Worker
Effort, Worker Quality
3、 复习思考题：
(1)Are minimum-wage laws a better explanation for structural unemployment
among teenagers or among college graduates? Why?
(2) Between 1997 and 1998, total U.S. employment increased by (2)1 million
workers declined by only 0.5 million. How are these numbers consistent with each other?
Why might one expect a reduction in the number of people counted as unemployed to be
smaller than the increase in the number of people employed?
(3)The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that in December 1998, of all adult
Americans, 138547000 were employed, 6021000 were unemployed, and 67723000 were
not in labor force. How big was the labor force? What was the labor-force participation
rate? What was the unemployment rate?
Chapter 32 Ensuring Price Stability
1、本章重点：
(1)See why inflation results from rapid growth in the money supply.
(2) Learn the meaning of the classical dichotomy and monetary neutrality.
(3)See why some countries print so much money that they experience
hyperinflation.
(4)Examine how the nominal interest rate responds to the inflation rate.
(5)Consider the various costs that inflation imposes on society.
2、计划课时：5 学时
§1 The Classical Theory of Inflation
A. The Level of Prices and the Value of Money
B. Money Supply, Money Demand and Monetary Equilibrium
C. The Effects of a Monetary Injection
D. A Brief Look at the Adjustment Process
E. The Classical Dichotomy and Monetary Neutrality
F. Velocity and the Quantity Equation
G. The Inflation Tax and The Fisher Effect
§2 The Costs of Inflation
A. A Fall in Purchasing Power and The Inflation Fallacy
B. Shoeleather Costs and Menu Costs
C. Relative-Price Variability and the Misallocatio n of Resources
D. Inflation-Induced Tax Distortions
E. Confusion and Inconvenience
2、 复习思考题：
(1)Recall that money serves three functions in the economy. What are those
functions? How does inflation affect the ability of money to serve each of these
functions?
(2) Explain whether the following statements are true, false, or uncertain.
a. “Inflation hurts borrowers and helps lenders, because borrowers must pay a higher
rate of interest”.
b. “If prices change in way that leaves the overall price level unchanged, then no one
is made better or worse off.”
c. “Inflation does not reduce the purchasing power of most workers.”
(3)Suppose that this year’money supply is $500 billion, nominal GDP is $10 trillion,
and real GDP is $5 trillion.
What is the price level? What is the velocity of money?
Suppose that velocity is constant and the economy’s output of goods and services
rises by 5 percent each year. What will happen to nominal GDP and the price level next
year if the Fed keeps the money supply constant?
(4)If the tax rate is 40 percent, compute the before tax real interest rate and the
after-tax real interest rate in each of the following cases.
a. The nominal interest rate is 10 percent and the inflation rate is 5 percent.
b. The nominal interest rate is 6 percent and the inflation rate is 2 percent.
c. The nominal interest rate is 4 percent and the inflation rate is 1 percent.
四、 理论教学学时分配
章
讲课内容
2
0
学时
Overview of Macroeconomics
2
2
1
2
Unemployment and the Foundation of
Aggregate Supply
3
Unemployment and the Foundation of
Aggregate Supply
3
Ensuring Price Stability
4
4
4
5
五、 参考教材及图书资料
1. Rudiger Dornbusch:《Macroeconomics》（the eighth edition）。
2. Hall & M Liberman: Economics, South-Western College. 1998 (Hall)
3. Xiaoping Wang: Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, 2nd ed. Jiangxi People's
Press.1997. (Wang)
4. M. Parkin and R. Bade: Modern Macroeconomics, Prentic-Hall, 1986
5. Douglas McTaggart, C Findlay & M. Parkin: Economics, 2nd ed. Addison-Weslit
1996
撰写人：顾立汉
审核人：田静
修订时间：2007 年 8 月 26 日