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PowerPoints for Intermediate Macroeconomics

These slide shows make extensive use of animation and algebra to present macroeconomic models. They include explanatory text and can be used by students for self-paced revision.

You have our permission to use the slide shows in your presentations or to copy them onto your own site or Virtual Learning Environment. You may modify them as much as you like. In return, we only ask that you notify us (email econ-network@bristol.ac.uk) that you are using them in your courses.

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1. The Closed Economy
9 slides,
6 animated graphs
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2. The Small Open Economy
9 slides,
6 animated graphs
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3. The Keynesian Cross Model, The Money Market, and IS/LM
12 slides,
10 animated graphs
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4. Building the short run AD-AS model from the IS-LM framework
16 slides,
10 animated graphs
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5. Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply in the Long Run
8 slides,
5 animated graphs
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6. The sticky wage, imperfect-information, and sticky price models of Aggregate Supply
15 slides,
4 animated graphs
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7. Inflation, Unemployment, and the Phillips Curve
11 slides,
4 animated graphs
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8. Money and Inflation: An Introduction
17 slides,
1 animation
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9. The Solow Growth Model, Part One: The steady state level of capital and how savings affects output and economic growth.
16 slides,
4 animated graphs
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10. The Solow Growth Model, Part Two: The golden rule level of capital, maximizing consumption per worker.
12 slides,
4 animated graphs
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11. The Solow Growth Model, Part Three: The augmented model that includes population growth and technological progress.
11 slides,
4 animated graphs
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These presentations were created by Tim Kochanski, University of Alaska Southeast with enhancements by The Economics Network. They were developed with a small grant from the JISC/Higher Education Academy's Distributed eLearning programme.