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,UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS
Jan/Feb 2023
ECS4861
Advanced Macroeconomics (Honours)
100 Marks
Duration: 3 Hours
First Examiner: Prof D Hodge
Second Examiner: Mr FHB Serfontein
External Examiner: Dr JS Hart
This paper consists of three (3)
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, ECS4861
Date: 4 February 2023
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Jan/Feb 2023
SECTION 1
Answer ONE of the following two questions:
1.1 Explain Keynes’s theory of investment and why it is central to his more general theory of output, employment,
interest and money. [34]
OR
1.2 Compare and contrast the orthodox monetarist and orthodox Keynesian interpretation of the Phillips curve.
[34]
SECTION 2
Answer ONE of the following two questions:
2.1 Keynes, Friedman and Lucas all regarded expectations as important but differed significantly in the way they
included expectations in macroeconomic theory. Compare and contrast their explanations of the formation and
role played by expectations in macroeconomic theory. [34]
OR
2.2 Compare and contrast the new Keynesian and new classical schools of thought regarding macroeconomic
theory and policy. [34]
SECTION 3
Answer ONE of the following two questions:
3.1 (a) Explain the distinction between the proximate and fundamental causes of economic growth. (6)
(b) List and explain the main fundamental causes of economic growth. (28)
[34]
OR
3.2 Explain what you think are the main constraints on economic growth in South Africa. [34]
TOTAL: 100
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