4/22/10: As requested, I have posted added exam review questions below and also on the handouts page:
Exam Review PowerPoint | Exam Review PowerPoint PDF Handout
4/22/10: Please post to the discussion group by 5 pm 4/26, in order to receive credit. See the new topic on Earth Day and the article in the Wall Street Journal:
Earth
Day - Paul Rubin
WSJ, 4/22/2010
4/20/10: Reminder: A Quiz on Chapter 13 is due on 4/22. Go to Blackboard.
4/20/10: I have posted handouts for Chapter 14:
Chapter 14 PowerPoint | Chapter 14 PowerPoint PDF Handout
3/18/10: Additional quizzes have been posted, with due dates of 3/23 and 3/30. Go to Blackboard to take these quizzes. Please read the articles listed in the 3/3 announcement below for help in answering the questions.
3/3/10: I have posted some revisions to assigned readings on the recession. See the links below, which are also posted on the schedule on the syllabus. These are scheduled for coverage after Spring break. I expect to post a quiz on these readings (also to be due after Spring break). I encourage you to start some reading sooner rather than later.
Recession!
(Paper on the current recession)
Questions
and Answers about the Financial Crisis (Gorton)
Prepared Congressional Testimony
How
Did Economists Get It So Wrong?
Krugman, NYT, 9/2/2009
The
Stimulus Evidence One Year On (Barro)
WSJ, 2/23/10
Krugman on Stimulus:
Part I Part
II Part
III
2/24/10: For the remainder of the semester, our class will be held in Room 502.
2/22/10: I have corrected the due date for the Chapter 9 Quiz. The due date is 3/2, not 3/1.
2/21/10: A Quiz for Chapter 9 has been posted on Blackboard. The quiz will be due on 3/2 at 3:30 PM. Also, please read these articles:
A Layoff in the Smith Family Ripples Through Town
WSJ, 1/29/2009
Firms Race To Regain Control Over Inventories
WSJ, 2/9/2009
Growth Hits 6-Year High
WSJ, 1/30/10
Vice Chairman of Fed to Retire, Letting Obama Reshape Board
NYT, 3/2/10
Please see the related discussion topic in the Facebook
Group.
2/18/10: I have posted Test 1 with
answers in the Test Archive.
2/17/10: Test 1 grades have been posted in Blackboard.
2/9/10: I have posted Chapter 4 and Chapter 7 Quizzes as Study Guides on Blackboard. I have also posted the Test Review PowerPoint slides on the Handouts Page. I will have added office hours 12 - 3 pm tomorrow, 2/10.
2/4/10: Quizzes for Chapters 4 and 7 are posted on Blackboard. Due date is 2/9 at 3:30 PM.
2/2/10: Please read the following WSJ articles and see the related Question in the Facebook Discussion Group:
Who is Greedy?
Would You Pay $103,000 for This Arizona Fixer-Upper?
WSJ, 1/3/09
American Dream 2: Default, Then Rent
WSJ, 12/10/09
Until
Medical Bills Do Us Part (Kristoff)
NYT, 8/29/09
1/28/10: A Quiz for Chapter 3 is posted on Blackboard. Due date is 2/2 at 3:30 PM.
1/26/10: I have delayed the due date on the quiz to Tuesday 1/26 at 11:55 pm (despite the due date shown in the quiz title).
1/19/10:Some of you have noticed a remaining error in the Blackboard Quiz for Chapter 2.In the last question please replace the words "real GDP" with "GDP Deflator." Blackboard will not permit me to change the wording that is displayed without deleting and reposting the test, which erases all existing grades. So I will ask that you take the test as it is, but make this change in order to answer the last question.
1/18/10: Chapter 2 Quiz I have assigned a quiz on Chapter 2 in Blackboard. Enter Blackboard, navigate to this class (Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory), click assignments. You must submit answers by 3:30 PM on 1/26. Before then, you may take the quiz as often as you wish. Only your last attempt will count for a grade.
11/17/09: I am currently updating this website for the Econ322 course to be taught in Spring 2010. The syllabus is under construction and will be tentative until this class meets.
Textbook: I suggest that you get a used copy of Macroeconomics, 5th edition, by Abel-Bernanke, or 6th edition, by Abel-Bernanke-Croushore. The 5th edition is cheaper and perfectly adequate. ISBN numbers are below:
Abel-Bernanke (5th) ISBN Number: 0321162129
Abel-Bernanke-Croushore (6th) ISBN Number: 032141554x
Two things you can do NOW:
1. Buy a textbook (above) from Amazon.com or Abebooks.com or other locations.
2. Join the facebook group "Economics 322".