Coursework

2 - Written assignment (including essay) - 70

1 - Oral assessment and presentation - 30

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Tentative topics include: 
<ul><li>Objectives and limits of macroeconomic policy. </li></ul>
<ul><li>Fiscal policy: taxation, public spending, and debt management. </li></ul>
<ul><li>Monetary policy: central banking, interest rates, and inflation targeting. </li></ul>
<ul><li>Policy coordination and the interaction between fiscal and monetary tools. </li></ul>
<ul><li>Exchange rate regimes, balance of payments, and international policy spillovers. </li></ul>
<ul><li>Policy responses to crises: stabilisation, recovery, and reform. </li></ul>
<ul><li>Contemporary challenges: inequality, climate policy, and digital transformation. </li></ul>
<ul><li>Institutions and governance: Bank of England, HM Treasury, IMF, and ECB. </li></ul>

Feedback is provided in a number of ways throughout your module. This includes feedback you receive during teaching from both peers and lecturers and that provided for formative assessment. Following an assessment, you will be given your marks and feedback in line with the assessment regulations and policy. More information on the timing and type of feedback that will be provided for each assessment will be available from the module leader. <a href='https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations'>https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations</a>

This module will support the development of all the graduate attributes. Your module leader will provide you with information about how your learning, teaching and assessment activities support your development of these attributes. The graduate attributes are: - Always learning - Engaged in the world - Technical and digital - Connected Professional - Creating Impact

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Macroeconomics: Institutions, Instability, and the Financial System

Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics: Understanding the Global Economy

EC2034 - ​Macroeconomic Policy​

EC2034-PRD2-BLE-ALV1

Learning is organised around a mix of on-campus contact time and directed study through the engagement with online resources. The on-campus activities involve attendance to a one-hour long lecture and one one-hour-long small group tutorial. The on-campus activities are complemented by a rich set of online learning resources.

Each week you will attend a one-hour long lecture and engage with online resources prepared by the teaching team: the combination of lecture and online resources is designed to introduce you to the weekly topic. You will then attend a one-hour long interactive small group tutorial that, through a mix of exercises, quizzes, problem sets, is designed to help you acquire a deeper understanding of the weekly topic. If you do not have VISA restrictions, you will be given the option to choose whether to attend the tutorial online or on-campus. 
In addition to scheduled teaching hours, you will undertake your own independent study, which may involve wider reading, independent research, skills practice and preparation for assessment. Please see this module’s Moodle page and/or handbook for further information. 
For students with visa restrictions and those that choose on campus study. 
For students with no visa restriction who opted to attend seminars via Teams.

​Macroeconomic Policy​

Analyse and present macroeconomic data using appropriate tools and reasoning. 

Skills

Critically appraise competing policy perspectives and their evidence base. 

Apply macroeconomic models to interpret and assess policy decisions. 

Discuss the goals, tools, and trade-offs of fiscal and monetary policy. 

Knowledge

Communicate policy analysis clearly in written, verbal, and visual formats. 


Work with material ethically, respecting intellectual property rights, data privacy, and academic integrity. 

Values and attitudes

Show respect for, and understanding of, different perspectives on macroeconomic policy debates. 

Explore how institutional design and global linkages shape policy outcomes. 

Analyse how policy decisions affect inflation, growth, employment, and stability.

Evaluate macroeconomic policy responses to real-world events and crises. 

Explain key theoretical frameworks for understanding macroeconomic policy. 

Work independently and collaboratively to solve applied macroeconomic problems. 