Berkeley Econ 101b Spring 2008: Auxiliary Reading Problem Set

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April 24, 2008

Auxiliary Reading Problem Set

Auxiliary Reading Problem Set

For each of the six articles below, write one paragraph--one hundred to two hundred words--explaining to somebody who has not read the article what its main point is:

Paul Krugman's "Cartoon Model" http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/a-cartoon-model-of-the-crisis-more-serious-wonkery/
Raghuram Rajan, "Global Current Account Imbalances: Hard Landing or Soft Landing?" http://www.imf.org/external/np/speeches/2005/031505.htm
Maurice Obstfeld, "Global Imbalances" http://www.econ.berkeley.edu/~obstfeld/280c_sp07/adjustment.pdf
Barry Eichengreen,"China's Exchange Rate Regime: The Long and Short of It" http://www.econ.berkeley.edu/~eichengr/research/short.pdf
C. Fred Bergsten, "The Dollar and the Renminbi" http://www.iie.com/publications/papers/paper.cfm?ResearchID=747
Institute for International Economics, "China: The Balance Sheet" http://www.petersoninstitute.org/publications/chapters_preview/04648/0

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