Revised syllabus for the final month of Econ 101b:
Part IV: STICKY-PRICE BUSINESS CYCLE MACROECONOMICS (cont.)
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October 28 Lecture: Stabilization Policy (textbook chapter 13). Optional reading: Alan Blinder (1999), Central Banking in Theory and Practice (Cambridge: MIT Press: 0262522608). Problem Set 7 out.
Section: Liquidity Traps
October 30 Lecture: Financial Crises and Deflation (textbook chapter 13).
Section: Review and Questions
November 4 Lecture: Questions and Review
Section: Problem Set 7 due; go over Problem Set 7.
November 6 Lecture: Second Midterm Exam
No Section.
Posted by DeLong at October 27, 2003 10:58 AM | TrackBackNovember 13 Lecture: Budget Deficits and National Debt (textbook chapter 14). Problem Set 8 out. Additional reading: Economic Report of the President, chapter 5.
Section: Go over Midterm Exam.
November 18 Lecture: International Economic Policy Regimes (textbook chapter 15). Additional reading: Economic Report of the President, chapter 6.
Section: Political business and budget cycles. Additional reading: Alberto Alesina (1987), "Macroeconomic Policy in a Two-Party System as a Repeated Game", Quarterly Journal of Economics 102:3, pp. 651-78.
November 20 Lecture: International Currency Crises (textbook chapter 15). Problem Set 9 out.
Section: Problem Set 8 due; go over Problem Set 8.
November 25 Lecture: Where We Have Been? The 1990s (Optional reading: Alan Blinder and Janet Yellen (2001), The Fabulous Decade (New York: Twentieth Century Fund: 0870784676).
Section: Drawing a balance sheet on the costs and benefits of globalization and international capital mobility.
December 2 Lecture: Where We Are Going? The 2000s
Section: Problem Set 9 Due. Go over problem set 9.
December 4 Questions and Review
December 12 5-8 PM: Final Exam (short: two hours).