The primary source of material for this course is Blackboard. Students should check there for the most up to date version.
Syllabus
Practice Problems and Solutions
- Chapters 10-12: Aggregate Demand and the Business Cycle:
- Problem Set 1: problems ; solutions part 1 , and solutions part 2
- Problem Set 2: problems
- Chapters 8-9: Economic Growth: problems; solutions
- Chapter 6: The Open Economy: problems; solutions
- Chapters 4-5: The Monetary System and Inflation: problems; solutions
- Chapter 3: The Classical Model: problems; solutions
- Chapter 2: Measurement: problems; solutions
Slides
slides are used infrequently in this course
- October 9, 2017
- September 29, 2017 (real exchange rate, textbook price example)
- September 20, 2017 (only covers the beginning of class)
- September 18, 2017
- August 30, 2017
- August 28, 2017
- August 25, 2017
Exams
Links
- FOMC meeting calendar and information page. You can find links to prior economic projections and press conference videos, including those we looked at in class on Sept. 22, 2017 from the most recent FOMC meeting (Sept. 19-20).
- The current Employment Situation report that we looked at in class on Oct. 6, 2017 is here. Archived reports from prior months are available here
- The graphs we looked at in class on Oct. 11 were from the Gapminder site. The site has a lot of interesting data that you can look at using different types of graphs. Some of the ones we looked at were:
Note on the Course Textbook
Used copies of the 8th edition can be purchased through Amazon, using the following link:
https://www.amazon.com/Macroeconomics-N-Gregory-Mankiw/dp/1429240024