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Explain growth accounting using a visual and one worked real-world example. Context: Use a spreadsheet model to compare hypothetical saving and productivity paths. End with a prediction or check-for-understanding.
Explain solow model using a visual and one worked real-world example. Context: Use a spreadsheet model to compare hypothetical saving and productivity paths. End with a prediction or check-for-understanding.
Explain steady states using a visual and one worked real-world example. Context: Use a spreadsheet model to compare hypothetical saving and productivity paths. End with a prediction or check-for-understanding.
Explain golden-rule saving using a visual and one worked real-world example. Context: Use a spreadsheet model to compare hypothetical saving and productivity paths. End with a prediction or check-for-understanding.
Use the first concepts from this section. Use a spreadsheet model to compare hypothetical saving and productivity paths. Produce a labelled diagram, trace or calculation; explain each step and check one changed input.
3–6 questions on the preceding first-half concepts only: recall, visual interpretation, application and one plausible misconception. Explain each answer after submission.
Explain convergence using a visual and one worked real-world example. Context: Use a spreadsheet model to compare hypothetical saving and productivity paths. End with a prediction or check-for-understanding.
Explain endogenous growth using a visual and one worked real-world example. Context: Use a spreadsheet model to compare hypothetical saving and productivity paths. End with a prediction or check-for-understanding.
Explain institutions using a visual and one worked real-world example. Context: Use a spreadsheet model to compare hypothetical saving and productivity paths. End with a prediction or check-for-understanding.
Explain demographic change using a visual and one worked real-world example. Context: Use a spreadsheet model to compare hypothetical saving and productivity paths. End with a prediction or check-for-understanding.
Use a spreadsheet model to compare hypothetical saving and productivity paths. Work without the example, compare two cases, record assumptions and limitations, then self-review correctness, reasoning and clarity.
6–12 questions covering Growth accounting, Solow model, Steady states and the remaining section concepts, with cumulative retrieval from earlier sections. Include a new transfer problem; 70% unlocks progression.
Practical outcome: Compare monetary and fiscal responses in a simplified macro model.
Explain consumption smoothing using a visual and one worked real-world example. Context: Compare monetary and fiscal responses in a simplified macro model. End with a prediction or check-for-understanding.
Explain investment decisions using a visual and one worked real-world example. Context: Compare monetary and fiscal responses in a simplified macro model. End with a prediction or check-for-understanding.
Explain goods-market equilibrium using a visual and one worked real-world example. Context: Compare monetary and fiscal responses in a simplified macro model. End with a prediction or check-for-understanding.
Explain money-market equilibrium using a visual and one worked real-world example. Context: Compare monetary and fiscal responses in a simplified macro model. End with a prediction or check-for-understanding.
Use the first concepts from this section. Compare monetary and fiscal responses in a simplified macro model. Produce a labelled diagram, trace or calculation; explain each step and check one changed input.
3–6 questions on the preceding first-half concepts only: recall, visual interpretation, application and one plausible misconception. Explain each answer after submission.
Explain inflation expectations using a visual and one worked real-world example. Context: Compare monetary and fiscal responses in a simplified macro model. End with a prediction or check-for-understanding.
Explain phillips curves using a visual and one worked real-world example. Context: Compare monetary and fiscal responses in a simplified macro model. End with a prediction or check-for-understanding.
Explain policy rules using a visual and one worked real-world example. Context: Compare monetary and fiscal responses in a simplified macro model. End with a prediction or check-for-understanding.
Explain stabilisation trade-offs using a visual and one worked real-world example. Context: Compare monetary and fiscal responses in a simplified macro model. End with a prediction or check-for-understanding.
Compare monetary and fiscal responses in a simplified macro model. Work without the example, compare two cases, record assumptions and limitations, then self-review correctness, reasoning and clarity.
6–12 questions covering Consumption smoothing, Investment decisions, Goods-market equilibrium and the remaining section concepts, with cumulative retrieval from earlier sections. Include a new transfer problem; 70% unlocks progression.
Practical outcome: Trace an exchange-rate shock through a fictional open economy.
Explain balance of payments using a visual and one worked real-world example. Context: Trace an exchange-rate shock through a fictional open economy. End with a prediction or check-for-understanding.
Explain real exchange rates using a visual and one worked real-world example. Context: Trace an exchange-rate shock through a fictional open economy. End with a prediction or check-for-understanding.
Explain interest parity using a visual and one worked real-world example. Context: Trace an exchange-rate shock through a fictional open economy. End with a prediction or check-for-understanding.
Explain exchange-rate regimes using a visual and one worked real-world example. Context: Trace an exchange-rate shock through a fictional open economy. End with a prediction or check-for-understanding.
Use the first concepts from this section. Trace an exchange-rate shock through a fictional open economy. Produce a labelled diagram, trace or calculation; explain each step and check one changed input.
3–6 questions on the preceding first-half concepts only: recall, visual interpretation, application and one plausible misconception. Explain each answer after submission.
Explain policy trilemma using a visual and one worked real-world example. Context: Trace an exchange-rate shock through a fictional open economy. End with a prediction or check-for-understanding.
Explain sovereign debt using a visual and one worked real-world example. Context: Trace an exchange-rate shock through a fictional open economy. End with a prediction or check-for-understanding.
Explain currency crises using a visual and one worked real-world example. Context: Trace an exchange-rate shock through a fictional open economy. End with a prediction or check-for-understanding.
Explain macro model limitations using a visual and one worked real-world example. Context: Trace an exchange-rate shock through a fictional open economy. End with a prediction or check-for-understanding.
Trace an exchange-rate shock through a fictional open economy. Work without the example, compare two cases, record assumptions and limitations, then self-review correctness, reasoning and clarity.
6–12 questions covering Balance of payments, Real exchange rates, Interest parity and the remaining section concepts, with cumulative retrieval from earlier sections. Include a new transfer problem; 70% unlocks progression.
Combine all three sections: Trace an exchange-rate shock through a fictional open economy. Submit an original worked artifact, evidence or tests, assumptions and a reflection. Rubric: correctness, method, practical usefulness, reproducibility and communication. Self-reviewed, not certified.
6–12 balanced questions sampling every section of Intermediate Macroeconomics and Growth, including interpretation, calculation or reasoning, a misconception and a new application. Passing is 70%; review errors before retrying.
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