Why Is Money Important from a Short-Run Macroeconomic Perspective

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Essay

Why is money important from a short-run macroeconomic perspective?

Explore the implications of property rights, legal frameworks (injunctions, liability rules), and collective bargaining on addressing externalities.

Distinguish between public and private solutions to externalities and the conditions under which they are effective.

Analyze the implications of externalities on market failure and the role of government in correcting these failures.

Understand the concept of marginal social cost and marginal social benefit in the context of pollution and externalities.

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Definitions:

Jensen's Measure

A performance metric that evaluates the excess return of an investment portfolio over the predicted return by the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), adjusted for market risk.

Market Portfolio

A hypothetical collection of all market assets, each proportioned by its market value.

Betas

An evaluation measure for the volatility or inherent risk present in a security or portfolio in comparison to the total market.