MONETARY THEORY AND PRACTICE LECTURE NOTES
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Date
10/08/2020
Authors
Okurut, Francis Nathan
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Publisher
AERC
Abstract
The purpose of this course is to enable you to acquire sufficient knowledge of monetary theory
and policy. The course content is designed to ensure that the state of the art of monetary theory is
given sufficient exposition, while at the same time introducing sufficient doses of policy and
empirical topics with special reference to developing countries, in particular African countries.
The course adequately prepares you for advanced research and practice in the area plus policy
analysis and implementation. As the course outline indicates, course is in two parts. Part I deals
with issues relating to various aspects of monetary theory including the role of money, money
demand, money supply, money and inflation, monetary management, and central banking as well
as money in the open economy. Part II covers the economics of financial institutions and
financial intermediation, relationship between financial development and economic growth,
money in an open economy, international financial institutions, and global economy. As well as
providing theoretical frameworks for analysing banking intermediations and the conduct of
monetary policy, the course will also present empirical evidence and policy actions wherever
possible to support the theories
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MONETARY THEORY AND PRACTICE