(1) National Income Accounting
- Circular flow of Income(Four Sector Model)
- Gross Domestic Product/National Income
- Gross Domestic Product as a Measure of Economic Performance
- Nominal Versus Real Gross Domestic Product
- Estimation of GDP and its Components
(2) Business Cycle
- Phases of Business Cycle and Economic Fluctuations
(3) Inflation
- Price Indices: Consumer Price Index and GDP Deflator
- Nominal and Real values
- Inflation and its types: Demand Pull and Cost Push Inflation
- Concept of Disinflation, Hyperinflation, Deflation, Stagflation
- Costs of Inflation
(4) Foreign exchange rate
- Demand and Supply of Foreign Exchange
- Exchange Rate determination
- Currency Appreciation and Depreciations
- Effect of Currency Appreciation and Depreciation on Exports and Imports
(5) Balance of Payment Accounts
- Balance of trade
- Balance of Payments
- Current Account and Capital Account(also called Financial Account)
- Trade Barriers
(6) Unemployment
- Definition and Measurement of Unemployment
- Causes of Unemployment
- Types of Unemployment
- Natural Rate of Unemployment
(7) National Income and Price Determination
– Aggregate Demand
- Determinants of Aggregate Demand
- Multiplier and Crowding- Out Effects
– Aggregate Supply
- Determinants of Aggregate Supply
- Sticky Versus Flexible wages and Prices
– Macroeconomic Equilibrium
- Real Output and Price Level
- Short and Long Run
- Actual Versus Full Employment Output
– Financial Sector
Money, Banking and Financial Market
- Definition of Financial Assets: Money, Stock and Bonds
- Money Supply and its Measures
- Money Demand
- Banks and Creation of Money using T Accounts
- Money Multiplier
- Money market Equilibrium and Equilibrium Nominal Interest Rate
– Loanable Fund Market
- Demand and Supply of Loanable Funds
- Equilibrium Real Interest Rate
- Crowding Out
– Central Banking Policy
- Tools of Central Bank Policy and their impact on Money Supply
- Quantity Theory Of Money
- Nominal and Real Interest Rate
(9) Stabilization Policy
– Fiscal and Monetary Policies
- Demand- side effects
- Supply- Side Effects
- Government Deficits and Phillips Curve
- Short Run and Long Run Phillips Curve
- Trade off Between Inflation and Unemployment
(10) Economic Growth
- Meaning Of Economic growth
- Determinants of Economic Growth
- Investment in Human Capital
- Investment in Physical Capital
- Research and Development and Technological Progress
- Growth Policy