Planeamento


Aulas do tipo Teórico-Prático

Lecture 1

- Presentation. 
- Chapter 1 - Exchange rates and the foreign exchange market

- The definition of exchanges rates.
 - The foreign exchange market.


Lecture 2

Chapter 1 - Exchange rates and the foreign exchange market

- Types of exchange rates
- The demand for foreign currency assets


Lecture 3

Exchange rates and the foreign exchange market
A model of foreign exchange markets
- role of interest rates on currency deposits
- role of expectations of exchange rates


Lecture 4

1. Exchange rates and the foreign exchange market
A model of foreign exchange markets
- role of interest rates on currency deposits
- role of expectations of exchange rates
Covered parity condition.

2. Money, Interest Rates, and Exchange Rates
- What is money?
- Control of the supply of money
- The willingness to hold monetary assets


Lecture 5

Chapter 2 - Money, Interest Rates, and Exchange Rates - Money, the price level, and the exchange rate in the long run.
- A model of real monetary assets, interest rates, and exchange rates


Lecture 6

Chapter 2 - Money, Interest Rates, and Exchange Rates - inflation and exchange rate dynamics.
- Long-run effects of changes in money on prices, interest rates, and exchange rates


Lecture 7

Chapter 2 - Exchange rate overshooting.


Lecture 8

3. Price Levels and the Exchange Rate in the Long Run
- law of one price
- purchasing power parity
- monetary approach to the exchange rates


Lecture 9

3. Price Levels and the Exchange Rate in the Long Run
- Relationship between interest rates and inflation: Fisher effect
- Shortcomings of purchasing power parity


Lecture 10

3. Price Levels and the Exchange Rate in the Long Run
- Long-run model of exchange rates: real exchange rate approach.


Lecture 11

3. Price Levels and the Exchange Rate in the Long Run
- Long-run model of exchange rates: real exchange rate approach (conclusion).
- Real interest rates.


Lecture 12

4. Output and the Exchange Rate in the Short Run

- Determinants of aggregate demand in the short run.


Lecture 13

4. Output and the Exchange Rate in the Short Run

- A short-run model of output markets (conclusion)
- A short-run model of asset markets


Lecture 14

Intermediate Test


Lecture 15

4. Output and the Exchange Rate in the Short Run

- A short-run model for both output markets and asset markets.
 - Effects of temporary and permanent changes in monetary and fiscal policies (introduction)


Lecture 16

4. Output and the Exchange Rate in the Short Run

- Effects of temporary and permanent changes in monetary and fiscal policies (cont.)


Lecture 17

4. Output and the Exchange Rate in the Short Run

- Effects of permanent changes in monetary and fiscal policies.

- Adjustment of the current account over time (introduction).



Lecture 18

4. Output and the Exchange Rate in the Short Run

- Adjustment of the current account over time.

5.Fixed Exchange Rates and Foreign Exchange Intervention
- Balance sheets of central banks


Lecture 19

5.Fixed Exchange Rates and Foreign Exchange Intervention
- How the central bank fixes the exchange rate
- Monetary and fiscal policies under fixed exchange rates (introduction)


Lecture 20

5. Fixed Exchange Rates and Foreign Exchange Intervention
- Monetary and fiscal policies under fixed exchange rates (conclusion)
- Financial market crises and capital flight.


Lecture 21

5. Fixed Exchange Rates and Foreign Exchange Intervention

- Risk premium.
- Types of fixed exchange rates.


Lecture 22

6. International Monetary Systems: An Historical Overview
- Goals of macroeconomic policies—internal and external balance
- Gold standard era 1870–1914
- International monetary system during interwar period 1918–1939
- Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates 1944–1973 (introduction)


Lecture 23

6. International Monetary Systems: An Historical Overview

- Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates 1944–1973 (conclusion).
- Collapse of the Bretton Woods system.


Lecture 24

6. International Monetary Systems: An Historical Overview
- Arguments for floating exchange rates.
- Macroeconomic interdependence under a floating exchange rate.

- Foreign exchange markets since 1973.