Modern Monetary Policy

Dr. Paweł Baranowski (15 hours)

  • Introduction and organisation of the course

  • Lecture 1 - MP strategies

  • Lecture 2 - MP intruments and MP transmission mechanism

  • Lecture 3 - Rules vs. discrection

  • Lecture 4 - How CB sets its interest rates? (the last part to be completed)

  • Lecture 5 - No lecture notes. What other (than inflation) economic variables does CB monitor and why? Practical session: an analysis of the Inflation Report?

  • Useful terms... (a refresher of a macro- course)

  • A fragment of an useful book... (Lecture 2 and 4 - zero bound)
  • Disantvantages of using econometric models for 'optimising' monetary policy... (form a book of Alan Blinder...)


  • Practical_1.xls Practical_2.xls ch07.ppt ch08.ppt