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Professor Navarro’s unique and internationally recognized expertise lies in his ‘big picture’ application of a highly sophisticated but easily accessible macroeconomic analysis of the business cycle and stock and bond markets for corporate executives and investors.
In this course, “Prof Navarro” weds business and financial market strategies with the principles of macroeconomics. In doing so, he offers a powerful toolbox together with cases and lessons across all major functions of business, management, from finance, operations management, and marketing to human resource management, organizational behavior, statistics, and, of course, business strategy.
The central idea behind this course is to help you profitably manage over the ups and downs of the business cycle and the related stock and bond market cycles — whether you are a corporate executive, a financial market advisor or analyst, or perhaps a blue-collar worker or retiree worried about how economic conditions may affect your wages and value of your pension.
As a corporate manager or executive, you should always be thinking about whether a recession might be coming. What should you look for? If the recession comes, what kind of management decisions should you make?
Often times, in a recession, the kneejerk corporate reaction is to do just the opposite of what profitability says you should do. For example, the kneejerk reaction is often to fire people; but a recession can offer great opportunities to “cherry pick” the best of the talent that other companies are all too quickly casting off.
Similarly, corporate executives tend to cut back dramatically on capital expenditures during recessions. Yet, investing in new plant and equipment during a recession can position a company to reap great rewards through more innovative and efficient production.
There are similar questions and lessons for financial advisors and managers — or just plain “folk” managing their own personal and retirement portfolios. For example, how can you avoid the pain of a bearish stock market that typically is the harbinger of recession? And when might be the best time to shift your portfolio more to bonds?
This course will help you think through all of these questions and thereby position you for greater stability and prosperity across the range of global economic conditions. So, let’s roll our sleeves and get to work!
Lesson Two: The Aggregate Supply-Aggregate Demand Model
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1An Overview of Modern Macroeconomics in 7 Modules: 58 Minutes
A quick introduction to our course!
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2Lecture 1, Module 2: Macroeconomics in Your Business and Personal Lives
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3Lecture 1, Module 3: Microeconomics versus Macroeconomics
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4Lecture 1, Module 4: The Big Macroeconomic Issues, Part One
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5Lecture 1, Module 5: The Big Macroeconomic Issues, Part Two
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6Lecture 1, Module 6: Tax, Trade, Exchange Rate, and Regulatory Policies
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7Lecture 1, Module 7: Forecasting the Business Cycle
Lesson Three: The Keynesian Model & Fiscal Policy
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8Lesson Two, Module 1: Introduction
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9Lesson Two, Module 2: A Price or Income Adjustment Mechanism
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10Lesson Two, Module 3: The Emergence of John Maynard Keynes
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11Lesson Two, Module 4: Say's Law
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12Lesson Two, Module 5: The Quantity Theory of Money
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13Lesson Two, Module 6: The Aggregate Supply-Aggregate Demand Model
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14Lesson Two, Module 7: Why the Aggregate Demand Curve Slopes Downward
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15Lesson Two, Module 8: Why the Aggregate Demand Curve Shifts
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16Lesson Two, Module 9: Shifts in the Aggregate Supply Curve
Lesson Four: Monetary Policy and Business Strategy
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17Lesson Three, Module 1: Fiscal Policy & the Business Climate
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18Lesson Three, Module 2: The Coming of John Maynard Keynes
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19Lesson Three, Module 3: Analysis of the Keynesian Model, Part One
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20Lesson Three, Module 4: Analysis of the Keynesian Mode, Part Two
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21Lesson Three, Module 5: The Keynesian Expenditure Multiplier
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22Lesson Three, Module 6: Closing Inflationary and Recessionary Gaps
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23Lesson Three, Module 7: Closing an Inflationary Gap, Tax Cuts vs. Govt. Spending
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24Lesson Three, Module 8: The Keynesian Model, Then and Now
Lesson Five: Inflation and the Warring Schools of Macroeconomics
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25Lesson Four, Module 1: What is Monetary Policy?
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26Lesson Four, Module 2: All About Interest Rates
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27Lesson Four, Module 3: The Kinds and Functions of Money
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28Lesson Four Module 4: Determinants of Money Demand
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29Lesson Four, Module 5: How Paper Money is Created and the Money Multiplier
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30Lesson Four, Module 6: The Money Supply Multiplier & Where Money Comes From
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31Lesson Four, Module 7: The Nuts and Bolts of Monetary Policy
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32Lesson Four, Module 8: Monetary Policy to Close Recessionary & Inflationary Gaps
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33Lesson Four, Module 9: Monetary Versus Fiscal Policy
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34Lesson Four, Module 10: Monetary Policy & Strategic Business & Money Management
Lesson Six: Growth in the Developed and Developing Worlds
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35Lesson Five, Module 1: Two Types of Inflation and the Keynesian Dilemma
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36Lesson Five, Module 2: The Core Rate of Inflation and Inflationary Expectations
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37Lesson Five, Module 3: The Phillips Curve and Inflationary Spirals
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38Lesson Five, Module 4: Natural Unemployment Rate, Monetarist View of Spirals
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39Lesson Five, Module 5: Monetarist, Keynesian, Supply Side Inflation Cures
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40Lesson Five, Module 6: New Classical Economics and Rational Expectations
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41Lesson Five, Module 7: Three Ranges of the Economy
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42Lesson Five, Module 8: Strategic Management of Inflation Risk
Lesson Seven: International Trade & Its Gains and Losses
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43Lesson Six, Module 1: Overview of the Four Wheels of Growth
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44Lesson Six, Module 2: The Four Wheels of Growth in Detail
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45Lesson Six, Module 3: Classical Growth Models of Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus
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46Lesson Six, Module 4: Neoclassical Growth Model & Technological Change
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47Lesson Six, Module 5: Growth in Developing Nations
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48Lesson Six, Module 6: The Quantity and Quality of Human Resources
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49Lesson Six, Module 7: The Blessing and Sometimes Curse of Natural Resources
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50Lesson Six, Module 8: Importance of Capital Formation and Technological Change
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51Lesson Six, Module 9: Development Strategies to Break the Vicious Cycle of Pover
Lesson Eight: Exchange Rates, The Balance of Payments, and Trade Deficits
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52Lesson 7, Module 1: An Introduction to the Business of International Trade
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53Lesson 7, Module 2: The Language and Jargon of International Trade
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54Lesson 7, Module 3: The Theory of Absolute Advantage
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55Lesson 7, Module 4: Why Comparative Advantage Trumps Absolute Advantage
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56Lesson 7, Module 5: A Production Possibilities Analysis of Comparative Advantage
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57Lesson 7, Module 6: The Economics and Politics of Protectionism, Part One
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58Lesson 7, Module 7: The Economics and Politics of Protectionism, Part Two
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59Lesson 7, Module 8: The Pros and Cons of Protectionism
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60Lesson 7, Module 9: Limitations of the Ricardian Free Trade Model & a Case Study
Lesson Nine: Macroeconomics and Public Finance
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61Lesson Eight, Module 1: Introduction to Exchange Rates
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62Lesson Eight, Module 2: Balance of Payments Accounting -- The Current Account
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63Lesson Eight, Module 3: Balance of Payments Accounting -- The Capital Account
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64Lesson Eight, Module 4: Exchange Rates Defined
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65Lesson Eight, Module 5: Why Exchange Rates Move -- Part One
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66Lesson Eight, Module 6: Why Exchange Rates Move -- Part Two
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67Lesson Eight, Module 7: Floating vs. Fixed Rates & Gold Specie Flow Adjustment
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68Lecture 8, Module 8: Hume's Theory & the Gold Standard in the Real World
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69Lesson Eight, Module 9: The Dollar Standard and Its Collapse
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70Lesson Eight, Module 10: Today's Hybrid System, Currency Blocs, and Fixed Pegs
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71Lesson Eight, Module 11: Global Spillover Effects of Fiscal & Monetary Policy
Lesson Ten: Strategic Business Cycle Managing and Investing
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72Lesson Nine, Module 1: An Overview of the Macroeconomics of Public Finance
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73Lesson Nine, Module 2: Accurately Measuring the Debt Burden
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74Lesson Nine, Module 3: The Structural Versus Cyclical Budget Deficit
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75Lesson Nine, Mod 4: Cyclical vs. Structural Deficit - Policies to Balance Budget
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76Lesson Nine, Module 5: Three Ways to Finance Budget Deficits -- Part One
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77Lesson Nine, Module 6: Three Ways to Finance Budget Deficits -- Part Two
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78Lesson Nine, Module 7: The Pros and Cons of Budget Deficits