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ACADEMIC TASK NO. III

Mittal School of Business
Name of the faculty member: Dr. Tanima Dutta
Course Code: ECO518 Course Title: Macroeconomics and Policy
Class: MBA Term: Autumn Section: Q1942 Batch: 2019
Max. Marks: 30 Date of Submission: 25th April 2020

S. Roll No Objectives of Topic Details Evaluation Parameters Expected Outcomes

No Academic
Activity
1 A group of To encourage Each group will be allotted 1. A combined written report will This Academic task has focus
four students students to think a unique topic. Each group be submitted by the group on the following:
will be given analytically and has to submit write up. members on the topic allotted to 1) Helping students
one topic correlate them and marks will be given correlate concepts of
economics with real life
economic out of 30 on the basic of peer
situations.
concepts with rating done by the students. 2) Enabling students to
real life issues. Evaluation will be done on peer work as a team
rating basis. All the members
will give weight out of 10 to
each on the basis of amount of
work done. Teacher will assign
marks on peer rating basis using
the rubrics. The evaluation
parameters for this assignment
are :
1.Introduction(topic sentence)
(5marks)
2. Sequencing (You nned not write
anything for this. It will be judged
by us. Logical sequencing needs to
 be followed) (Organization)(5marks)
3. Ideas (It refers to your
thoughts/ideas regarding the topic) ,
(5 marks)
4. Links to other readings/references
(5 marks)
5. Practical application and relating
concepts with real world and
conclusion (10 marks).

EVALUATION PARAMTERS
CATEGORY 1 2 3 4 5 Points
awarded
Introduction The topic The topic Introduces the The topic sentence Does not display
(topic sentence) sentence is an sentence is a paragraph. It does not introduce an understanding
(5marks) excellent good introduction does not the paragraph. of the topic. Not
introduction to to the paragraph. introduce the (2) in line with the
the paragraph. It It may too broad topic very well topic. (1)
tells the main or have a detail and it includes
idea and gives included. (4) too many
the big picture details. (3)
(5)
Links to the Student makes Student makes a Student makes Student makes many Student makes
other readings/ no errors in couple of errors several errors in errors in linking or more than ten
references linking or in linking or linking or reffering the case.(2) errors in linking
(5marks) reffering the reffering the case. reffering the or reffering the
case (5) (4) case (3) case.(1)

Ideas The topic has Student knows Student uses just the Information is
(5 marks) been discussed The topic has the subject but facts to relay gathered from
from different been discussed not related it thoughts. There is electronic sources
angles and properly and with different not much of the but the student
student has student has a angles (3) student's own does not know its
given excellent good grasp of the personality in the relevance and
grasp of the subject. (4) writing (2) importance (1)
topic. (5)
Sequencing The answer is The answer is in The answer is The answer is The content is
(5 marks) proper sequence seqence and sequence and somewhat in least sequenced
and does not contains very few contains few sequence with the (1)
contain any theoretical errors theoretical topic but the content
theoretical (4) errors (3) is not convincing.(2)
errors (5)
Practical Student makes Student makes Student has Student makes many Student has not
application and no errors in little error to tried to relate errors in practical related with
relating concepts appropriate relate the the concepts application and no practical
with Real World practical concepts practically and clear conclusion can applications and
and Conclusion application and practically and Clear be formed from the no conclusion
(10 mark) Detailed Clear conclusion conclusion is facts offered.(4) can be formed.(2)
conclusions are is reached from reached from
reached from the the facts offered. the facts
facts offered. (8) offered. (6)
(10)
TOTAL

Note:

1. Assignment should be submitted in MS-Word Format (.doc) or PDF Format

 2. No assignment will be considered without peer rating.
3. Assignment is to be submitted online via UMS only.
4. Plagiarism will be checked with the help of Turnitin software and the limit is 30 percent.
5. Every student in a group will upload the assignment from his/her UMS account.
6. Evaluation will be done strictly on the basis of the Rubrics attached.
7. In case of any query feel free to contact your teacher but not question/query will be entertained on the day of submission.

FORMATTING GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION OF ASSIGNMENT

Assignment Title: The title of the paper should be in 16-point Times New Roman font. It should be bold typed, centered and fully capitalized.

Body of Assignment: Assignment must be prepared on standard A4 size paper setting. It must be prepared on a 1.5 spacing and single column with 1” margin set for top,
bottom, left and right. It should be typed in 12-point Times New Roman font with page numbers at the bottom-centre of every page.

Headings: All section headings should be in 14-point Times New Roman font and sub-section headings should be in 12-point Times New Roman font. These must be bold-
faced, aligned left and fully capitalized. Leave a blank line before each heading.

Figures & Tables: These must be simple, centered & numbered, and the titles of figure/table must be above the figure/table. Sources of figures/tables should be mentioned
below them.

Citation & References: References should be cited in the text in the style prescribed in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edn.).
Indicate the position of the reference in the text within brackets by the author’s last name and the year of publication; e.g.: “(Hooda, 1998)” or “as pointed out by Hannan and
Freeman (1977)”, if it is part of a sentence. At the end of the text, references should be listed in the alphabetical order of the last names of the authors, with a title,
‘References’. The title ‘REFERENCES’ should be bold-faced, fully capitalized and left-aligned with 14-point Times New Roman font.
Some examples of how the references are to be listed at the end are given below.
 (If it is a book): Hooda, R. P. (1998). Indian securities market. New Delhi: Excel Books.
 (If it is an article in a journal): Hannan, M.T., & Freeman, J. (1977). The population ecology of organizations. American Journal of Sociology, 82(5), 929-964.
 (If it is an article in an edited book): Kanter, R.M. (1988). When a thousand flowers bloom: Social, structural and collective conditions for innovation in
organizations. In B. Staw and L. Cummings (Eds.), Research in organizational behavior (Vol.10, pp. 169-211). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

S. No. Group Members Topic

1 Guhan S Discuss the current monetary policy of India. What are
 Chockalingam the various instruments of monetary policy of India and
Jaya Gupta how it works during the period of slowdown?
Chitranjali
Alex Benny
2 Akram Khan Discuss the various causes of inflation in Indian
Ajay M Saseendran Economy in context of the current macroeconomic
Bitto Roy environment. Specify some measures to control
Marattukalam inflationary pressures in Indian Economy.
Silky Verma
3 Mukesh Chandra Fiscal policy is the mirror of the government Budget.
Kamila In the context of this statement discuss some instruments
Nitish Kumar of fiscal policy in India and how it works.
Ranjan
Khusboo Pokhrel
Ankur Sharma
4 Gorantla Bharath Reddy Discuss the various types of business cycles. How
Kunal Aryan macroeconomic policies try control the various phases
Rajesh Kumar of the business cycles.
Shubham Chauhan
5 Shubham Kumar “Demand pull inflation occurs only when there is an
Aatish Kumar inflationary gap in the economy.” Explain. Also suggest
Abhijith Nair A some measures to correct the problem of demand pull
inflation.
Shubham Singh
6 Juhi Shakya "Investment decisions are largely influenced by
Poonam Naugain expectations of future demand conditions". Substantiate
Bhavya Patel
Varish Priya
7 Shubham Singh Discuss the role and relevance of consumption in Indian
Chawada Economy.
Himanshu Bisht
Prince Davis
 Adarsh Mishra
8 Samiksha Discuss some coping strategies in inflationary,
Lavanya Sharma deflationary and stagnant economies
Ankit Kumar
Priyanshu Tiwari
9 Shveta Yadav Discuss the Say’s Law in context of the monetized
Rinkal Sudhir economy.
Nikita Dutt
Suraj Mehta
10 Vikas Bijlani “The Keynesian Model of State Intervention is Back”
Rishav Kumar Elaborate in context of the current pandemic
Chaudhary
Ashwin Babu
Prateek Prashar
11 Harshit Khatana “Monetary Policy is a better tool than Fiscal Policy at
Althaf Shanavas the time of emergency” Evaluate
Prakash Thakur
Kunal Garg
12 Abinash Kumar “Fiscal Policy is a better tool than Monetary Policy at
Sahoo the time of emergency” Evaluate
Bijayananda Sahu
Akshara Nair
Rishikesh
Bhardwaj
13 Prasant Kumar “Investors with greater wealth and income tend to invest
Sahu more than investors with the same income but no
Shubhangi wealth” Discuss
Shrutika
Sreedas VM
Md Shahbaz Khan
14 Harshita Mishra Does the concept of Money Illusion impact the
Komal Bhagat consumption pattern of common people? Discuss
Enoch Tei Agah
 Annexure-V- Cover Page for Academic Tasks

Course Code: ECO518 Course Title: Macroeconomics and

Policy
Course Instructor: Dr. Tanima Dutta

Academic Task No.: 3 Academic Task Title: Assignment

Date of Allotment: Date of submission: 25th April 2020

Student’s Roll no: Student’s Reg. no:

Evaluation Parameters:

Learning Outcomes:
Declaration:

I declare that this Assignment is our individual work. I have not copied it from any other student‟s work or from any other source
except where due acknowledgement is made explicitly in the text, nor has any part been written for me by any other person.
Student’s Signature:

Evaluator’s comments (For Instructor’s use only)

General Observations Suggestions for Improvement Best part of assignment

Evaluator’s Signature and Date:

Marks Obtained: Max. Marks: …………………