Brad DeLong's Audio and Video: Morning Coffee and Afternoon Tea

Dixit and Stiglitz: Monopolistic Competition and Optimum Product Diversity

Avinash K. Dixit and Joseph E. Stiglitz (1977), "Monopolistic Competition and Optimum Product Diversity," American Economic Review, 67:3 (June), pp. 297-308.

Econ 101b: April 25: Long-Run Growth Revisited: Endogenous Growth

April 25: Long-Run Growth Revisited: Endogenous Growth

Notes: Lecture Audio; “Infant Industries,” Industrial Policy, and Development in a Model of Productive Variety http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/2008_pdf/20080424_industrial_policy.pdf

Readings:

• Paul Krugman, "Review of David Warsh, 'Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations'" http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/books/review/07krugman.html
• US Economic Development Administration, "New Growth Theory, Technology and Learning: A Practitioner’s Guide" http://www.eda.gov/ImageCache/EDAPublic/documents/pdfdocs/1g3lr_5f7_5fcortright_2epdf/v1/1g3lr_5f7_5fcortright.pdf
• Paul Romer, "Economic Growth" http://www.stanford.edu/~promer/EconomicGrowth.pdf

Econ 101b: April 23: The Chinese Economy

April 23: The Chinese Economy

Notes: Slides: http://delong.typepad.com/delongslides/2008/04/econ-101b-april.html; Lecture Audio: http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/2008_mov/20080423_091349.mp3

Readings:

• 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/04648/01pa04648.pdf

The Current Macroeconomic Situation: April 21, 2008

Audio: http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/2008_mov/20080421_131604.mp3

Slides:

• U.S. Real GDP
• U.S. Civilian Employment to Population Ratio
• U.S. Trade Balance
• Investment in Recessions
• Housing Starts
• Financial Losses
• The Collapse of the Fed Funds Market
• The Dollar Cycles

April 21: Econ 101b: Why Is Asia Gambling on Bretton Woods II?

April 21: Why Is Asia Gambling on Bretton Woods II?

Notes: Slides: http://delong.typepad.com/delongslides/2008/04/econ-101b-april.html; Lecture Audio: http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/2008_mov/20080421_091146.mp3

Readings:

• 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/04648/01pa04648.pdf

April 16: Econ 101b: Risks of International Financial Crisis II

April 16: Risks of International Financial Crisis II

• Notes: Lecture Audio: http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/2008_mov/20080416_122152.mp3. Slides: http://delong.typepad.com/delongslides/2008/04/april-16-2008-l.html

• International Financial Crises Problem Set Clean Version. Due April 23

April 14: Econ 101b: Risks of International Financial Crisis

April 14: Risks of International Financial Crisis

Notes:

• Lecture Audio: http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/2008_mov/20080414_091122.mp3
• International Financial Crises: http://delong.typepad.com/delongslides/2008/04/foreign-exchang.html
• Global Imbalances: http://delong.typepad.com/delongslides/2008/04/global-imbalanc.html

Readings:

• "The International Financial Crises of the 1990s" http://j-bradford-delong.net/macro_online/ifc.pdf
• "Simple Analytics for a Hard Dollar Landing" http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/pdf/hard_landing.pdf
• DeLong and Olney, chapter 15.

April 11: Econ 101b: International Finance and "Global Imbalances": Introduction

April 11: International Finance and "Global Imbalances": Introduction

Notes: Lecture Audio http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/2008_mov/20080411_091301.mp3

Readings:

• 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
• Hamid Faruqee, "Narrowing Global Imbalances?" http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2008/RES021908A.htm

Why Did Post-WWII Western Europe Do So Well?

April 10, 2008 guest lecture for PE 101

Lecture Audio: http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/2008_mov/20080410_111402.mp3

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