Economics quantity of material to value

CFA Level II
#1

I tried to go over all the descriptive stuff tonight. All the long run equilibrium fx models. The capital account adjustments. The Dornbusch overshooting model, I literally cant look at this anymore. Economics is horrendous value in terms of material to value.

What’s everyones strategy for this?

I am going to do:

FX transactions (carry Triangular arb)

All the parity relationships

Mundell Flemming Table

The different output theories (NC, C, Endogenous etc)

Club convergence

and then just ignore the rest (except for a brief skim)

#2

Looking at topic tests, Cobb-Douglas and GDP growth calculations are v/important as well.

#3

Seconding abashtavy. Memorize 4-5 growth accounting equations and test drive them a bit. Doing so is actually much more straightforward than keeping track of currencies.

#4

I covered it all in a day…10 hours…terrible. Woke up feeling like I drank Jameson all night. Do the Future/Forward stuff. They make you hit the bid/ask to offset the position, also swaps use a “midpoint” rate with the forward points decided by how you offset. There is a bluebox with that. Somehow they took the worst part of derivatives and made it worse.