Berkeley Econ 101b Spring 2008
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Look at the websites for this semester's teaching: Econ 101b: Intermediate Macroeconomics... Econ 210a: Introduction to Economic History...
Other Assignments
March 06, 2008
February 27, 2008
Web Assignment 5: Medium-Run Model Spreadsheet
A spreadsheet for playing with the medium-run flexible-price model set out at http://delong.typepad.com/delongslides/2008/02/the-flexible-pr.html is now up on the internet at: http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/2008_xls/20080227_flexmodel.xls
Parameters go in g44:g57; outcomes are in g60:g70 and in the graph to the left of parameters and outcomes...
Your assignment is to:
Test the spreadsheet. Download the .xls file, open it in Excel (or equivalent), change one parameter value, and report if what the model says happened makes sense--is the spreadsheet correct?
Analyze the results: explain why--that is, provide some intuition--the spreadsheet reported that your change in the mode parameters had the effects that it did.
Email your results to me at brad.delong@gmail.com.
February 25, 2008
Web Assignment 4: Reading Financial Press I
Go to http://briefing.com/Investor/Public/OurView/OurViewLanding.htm at briefing.com and read the following two articles:
- http://briefing.com/GeneralContent/Investor/Active/ArticlePopup/ArticlePopup.aspx?SiteName=Investor&ArticleId=NS20080219083236TheBigPicture
- http://briefing.com/GeneralContent/Investor/Active/ArticlePopup/ArticlePopup.aspx?SiteName=Investor&ArticleId=NS20080204085648TheBigPicture
Then write a comment on this webpage giving your view about how the factors and concerns enunciated by briefing.com head Richard Green do or do not match up to the factors and concerns taught, so far, in this course. Participate in the ongoing conversation already started in the comments posted before yours.
January 28, 2008
Web Assignment 2
- Due before lecture on Feb 4
- Download the Solow Growth Models Scenario Spreadsheet
- Read through it
- Conduct an experiment--enter your own values into the grey "initial conditions," "shocks," and "capital share," boxes, and examine the tables and charts that result.
- Write a paragraph and post it as a comment on this web page describing what you did and what it told you--or what went wrong and why you were unable to accomplish the assignment.
January 23, 2008
Web Assignment 1
Join (if you do not already belong) Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/.
Then join the Berkeley network, and then join the Econ101b group at <http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8834189518
Email me at
Include in this email a sentence or two that you would like me to remember you by.
Append to the comments on this page http://delong.typepad.com/berkeley_econ_101b_spring/2008/01/web-assignment.html a public sentence or two that you would like your classmates to remember you by.
Do this before class on Friday January 25, 2008.
October 16, 2007
Web Apps in the Classroom...
Ha! (At least "Ha!" in Firefox):
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p_zylRhg4toxRamJQhxALYg
Solow Growth Model: Increase in Savings Rate:
Control Parameters:
I wonder if I can require students in 101b next semester to bring laptops to class?
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- Practice Final for Econ 101b
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- May 2: The Long-Run Fiscal Situation: Theory
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About Brad DeLong
- J. Bradford DeLong is a professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley, chair of its political economy major, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and was in the Clinton administration a deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury. His best work extends from business cycle dynamics through economic growth, behavioral finance, political economy, economic history, international finance to the history of economic thought and other topics.
- Among his best works are: "Is Increased Price Flexibility Stabilizing?" "Productivity Growth, Convergence, and Welfare," "Noise Trader Risk in Financial Markets," "Equipment Investment and Economic Growth," "Princes and Merchants: European City Growth Before the Industrial Revolution," "Why Does the Stock Market Fluctuate?" "Keynesianism, Pennsylvania-Avenue Style," "America's Peacetime Inflation: The 1970s," "American Fiscal Policy in the Shadow of the Great Depression," "Review of Robert Skidelsky (2000), John Maynard Keynes, volume 3, Fighting for Britain," "Between Meltdown and Moral Hazard: Clinton Administration International Monetary and Financial Policy," "Productivity Growth in the 2000s," "Asset Returns and Economic Growth."
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