1.What is the role of the financial system?Name and describe two markets that are part of the financial system in the U.S.economy.Name and describe two financial intermed iaries. 2.Why is it important for people who own stocks and bonds to diversify their holdings? What type of financial institution makes diversification easier? 3.What is national saving?What is private saving?What is public saving?How are these three variables related? 4.What is investment?How is it related to national saving? 5.Describe a change in the tax code that might increase private saving.If this policy were implemented,how would it affect the market for loanable funds? 6.What is a govemment budget deficit?How does it affect interest rates,investment. and economic growth? (四)教学方法和手段 课堂讲解，辅助多媒体教学课件：课堂讨论 Ch28 UNEMPLOYMENT (一)目的与要求 I.掌握：how unemployment can result from minimum-wage laws..how unemployment can arise from bargaining between firms and unions.how unemployment can arise from bargaining between firms and unions. 2.a理解：how unemployment can result from minimum-wage laws 3.了解：the data used to measure the amount of unemployment. 4.认识到中国政府在促进就业方面取得的巨大成就 (二)教学内容 I.Unemployment can be divided into two categories l.主要内容：The economy's natural rate of unemployment refers to the amount of unemployment that the economy normally experiences.Cyclical unemployment refers to the year-to-year fluctuations in unemployment around its natural rate. 2.基本概念和知识点：rate of unemployment.Cyclical unemplovment II.Identifying Unemployment l.主要内容：How Is Unemployment Measured?labor force,unemployment rate.labor-force participation rate.natural rate of unemploymentcyclical unemployment 7 7 1. What is the role of the financial system? Name and describe two markets that are part of the financial system in the U.S. economy. Name and describe two financial intermediaries. 2. Why is it important for people who own stocks and bonds to diversify their holdings? What type of financial institution makes diversification easier? 3. What is national saving? What is private saving? What is public saving? How are these three variables related? 4. What is investment? How is it related to national saving? 5. Describe a change in the tax code that might increase private saving. If this policy were implemented, how would it affect the market for loanable funds? 6. What is a government budget deficit? How does it affect interest rates, investment, and economic growth? （四）教学方法和手段 课堂讲解，辅助多媒体教学课件；课堂讨论 Ch28 UNEMPLOYMENT （一）目的与要求 1．掌握：how unemployment can result from minimum-wage laws.how unemployment can arise from bargaining between firms and unions.how unemployment can arise from bargaining between firms and unions. 2．理解：how unemployment can result from minimum-wage laws. 3．了解：the data used to measure the amount of unemployment. 4. 认识到中国政府在促进就业方面取得的巨大成就。 （二）教学内容 I. Unemployment can be divided into two categories. 1．主要内容：The economy’s natural rate of unemployment refers to the amount of unemployment that the economy normally experiences. Cyclical unemployment refers to the year-to-year fluctuations in unemployment around its natural rate. 2．基本概念和知识点：rate of unemployment, Cyclical unemployment II. Identifying Unemployment 1．主要内容：How Is Unemployment Measured? labor force, unemployment rate, labor-force participation rate, natural rate of unemployment,cyclical unemployment