TY - BOOK AU - Moss,David A. TI - A concise guide to macroeconomics: what managers, executives, and students need to know SN - 1422101797 U1 - 339 PY - 2007/// CY - Boston, MA PB - Harvard Business School Press KW - Desarrollo económico KW - Macroeconomía KW - Política económica KW - Política monetaria KW - Estados Unidos N1 - Incluye bibliografía; _; pt. 1; Understanding the macro economy; 1; Output --; Measuring national output --; Exchange of output across countries --; What makes output go up and down? --; Isn´t wealth more important than output? --; 2; Money; Money and its effect on interest rates, exchange rates, and inflation --; Nominal versus real --; Money and banking --; The art and science of central banking --; 3; Expectations; Expectations and inflation --; Expectations and output --; Expectations and other macro variables --; pt. 2; Selected topics : background and mechanics; 4; A short history of money and monetary policy in the United States; Defining the unit of account and the price of money --; The gold standard : a self-regulating mechanism? --; The creation of the Federal Reserve --; Finding the right monetary rule under a floating exchange rate --; The transformation of American monetary policy --; 5; The fundamentals of GDP accounting; Three measurement approaches --; The nuts and bolts of the expenditure method --; Depreciation --; GDP versus GNP --; Historical and cross-country comparisons --; Investment, savings, and foreign borrowing --; 6; Reading a balance of payments statement; A typical balance of payments statement --; Understanding credits and debits --; The power and pitfalls of BOP accounting --; 7; Understanding exchange rates; The current account balance --; Inflation and purchasing power parity --; Interest rates --; Making sense of exchange rates UR - http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=015696958&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip076/2006101612.html ER -