Topic: U.S. Economy and Monetary Policy

Catalog description

Introduction to the interrelationships between various sectors of the US Economy; GDP trend decomposition for consumer spending, business investment, government spending, and net exports: Analytical tools including FRED (Fed. Res. Economics Database) used to generate forecast and macroeconomics analysis, VAR (Vector Autoregressive) forecasting techniques; relationship between the real economy and the US and the global financial systems; impact of monetary policy on unemployment, inflation, and financial system stability.