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  • This question provides a good opportunity to demonstrate your understanding of the impact of monetary policy changes on asset prices, a matter that often discussed in college courses on macroeconomics and finance. The reference to the crisis-era opens the door to considering different types of monetary policy response, going well beyond the traditional use of open market operations. Knowledge of what central banks have actually done and plan on doing might, therefore, be useful. Plus you may want to reflect on the notion of under-pricing of financial assets and whether that notion makes any sense in the first place.

     

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  •  Recessions are normally over faster than the most recent experienced by the industrialised economies. This underperformance has coincided with a slowdown in growth in the larger emerging markets, giving rise to the view that the world economy is stagnating. This question asks you to reflect on whether and why the growth dynamics are so different now, compared to before the global financial crisis of 2007-9. The subtitle of the question contains a subtle hint—it refers to the title of Reinhart and Rogoff’s well-known book that draws upon lots of historical data to examine the factors that determine the rate of recovery from financial crises. This essay is a fine opportunity to demonstrate your understanding of macroeconomics and on the factors that determine government reactions to financial crises and recessions.

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  • One of the central principals of central banks is to maintain stable and low inflation. However, in a national or global economic crisis, economic stimulus may become the main priority of governments and electorates. How effective or ineffective are changes of monetary policy by a central bank in the face of a financial crisis?

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