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课程名称：理解经济政策制定 课程概述：这是全球化、经济增长与稳定专业化的三个课程中的第一门。该课程将采用非技术性的方式分析政府如何通过政策影响国家经济。完成课程后，您将能够讨论国家债务与赤字，审视财政政策与货币政策及其在经济状况下的适用性，并预测财政政策、货币政策及结构改革对国家的影响。掌握这些概念后，您将能在许多当前的经济争论中形成自己的观点，比如财政刺激与紧缩、量化宽松的优劣、高利率的必要性，以及许多现代经济体的未来增长路径。 课程大纲： 1. 宏观经济概述：理解GDP、通货膨胀和失业的含义及其正常水平，建立理解政府宏观经济政策的基础。 2. 财政政策工具：探讨如何通过政府支出和税收改变来影响经济，了解乘数效应和挤出效应等概念。 3. 赤字、债务、神话与现实：分析现实中的财政赤字和债务，并澄清一些常见的误解，探讨美国及其他主要经济体近期的财政状况。 4. 货币政策：学习货币政策的运作方式，包括货币供应和开放市场操作，如何应对经济的膨胀和衰退。 5. 结合政策与其他政策工具：探讨财政和货币政策的交互作用，以及汇率政策和结构政策的应用。 6. 金融危机后的政策制定：回顾经济政策的理论，讨论领先发达国家的政策实践，包括利率、量化宽松、财政赤字等。 课程最后，您将有机会利用经济政策模拟器进行实际的政策制定练习，并为最终考试做好准备。完成这门课程后，您将对经济政策有更深入的理解和思考。
Name:Macroeconomy Overview
Description:We are surrounded by news and commentary on the macroeconomy. To understand it, we need to grasp the meaning of GDP, inflation and unemployment and see what their “normal” levels are and how they relate to one another. Though these levels and relationships are far from mechanical, they provide an essential foundation to understanding what governments are doing in a macroeconomy.
Name:The Fiscal Policy Tool
Description:Welcome to Module 2! We will be going into fiscal policy, which is one of the key tools that authorities have to influence the economy and bring GDP closer to its ideal growth rate. It consists of changes in government spending and taxes. To try to gauge how much spending and taxes need to change to bring GDP to potential, we use two concepts: the multiplier, and crowding out. However, spending and tax revenues also move automatically across the business cycle, helping make the economy more stable. Thanks for being with us! Enjoy learning!
Name:Deficits, Debts, Myths and Realities
Description:Welcome to Module 3! Now we know how fiscal policy is supposed to work in the economy, to close recessionary or inflationary gaps. In this module we will get into the nuts and bolts of deficits and debts in the real world and I am sure we will have some interesting follow-up discussions! How is it really used? What are government deficits and debts? When governments run deficits and need to borrow money, how and where do they do it? When are these deficits and debts more of a problem? This module will look at the US and other leading economies in recent years to answer these questions, clear up some common misconceptions, and point to what the most important concerns are with deficits and debts at the present time. Good luck and see you online!
Name:Monetary Policy
Description:Welcome to Module 4! This week we're tackling a fascinating issue, which is monetary policy, and I anticipate some very interesting debates. Monetary policy is the other main tool that governments can use to influence the economy. Monetary authorities work through the money supply and can use open market operations, their own lending rates and reserve or cash ratios to influence money markets and hence the real economy. Just as with fiscal policy, once the gap in the economy is identified, expansive monetary policy should be used in a recessionary gap and restrictive monetary policy in an inflationary gap. Monetary policy is superior to fiscal policy in many ways, but its greatest weakness is that it does not work nearly as well in recessionary gaps as in inflationary gaps. Keep up the good work!
Name:Combining Policies and Other Policy Tools
Description:Welcome, Courserians, to our fifth module in the Understanding Economic Policy course! We have so many tools in hand now that we can spend our last sessions putting the pieces together and tackling real-world policy questions. There is little that could be more relevant, and I hope you will enjoy it. In the real world, fiscal and monetary authorities may move in the same policy directions or they may act in opposition to one another. We will explore what happens as fiscal and monetary policies interact in the real economy. Additionally, economic decision-makers have two other policies that they can use to influence the economy, which are exchange-rate policy and structural policy. We will discuss how these work, and what special complications and advantages they present. There is also a peer-evaluated assignment for this course, and it’s included in this module. You will use the Economic Policy Simulator, a free interactive exercise, to make policy for an unknown country. Use all of the tools that we have learned together, and enjoy getting a chance to run a country! Thanks for your enthusiastic participation, and enjoy these last two modules of the course!
Name:Policymaking in the Wake of the Financial Crisis
Description:You are now in the last module of our Understanding Economic Policymaking course! Having reviewed the theory behind economic policymaking, we devote the last module to discovering what policymakers are actually doing in the leading developed countries of the world. We will discuss whether interest rates have been appropriate in a group of countries, and what the consequences are if they are not. We will also discuss quantitative easing, the main “unconventional” monetary policy, and anticipate some of its consequences. We will have a look at deficits and debt in some countries and use the tools to determine whether they are problematic; we will analyze the “austerity” policies applied in many European countries; and we will have a look at the combination of fiscal, monetary and structural policies being used in Japan, dubbed “Abenomics”. We´ll also consider the perils of policymakers´ aggressive pursuit of growth at a time when it is becoming more elusive. The final exam will have questions from this module and from each of the previous modules, so you can study your earlier quizzes to prepare. Good luck as you complete the course! I´ve enjoyed getting to know you a little. Warm regards.
Name:CAPSTONE
Description:
This is the first of the three courses part of the Globalization, Economic Growth and Stability Specialization. This course will employ a non-technical approach to analyze how governments use policy to influence a country's economy. Upon completing the course you should be able to discuss national debts and deficits, examine fiscal and monetary policy and their appropriateness to the situation of an economy, and anticipate the results of fiscal and monetary policies and structural reform on a country. These concepts will give you the tools to develop your own position in many current economic debates, such as fiscal stimulus vs. austerity, the merits of quantitative easing, the need for higher interest rates or the future growth path of many modern economies.
