IAS 107: Revised Schedule

IAS 107: Intermediate Macroeconomics: U.C. Berkeley: Spring 2011:

J. Bradford DeLong, Dariush Zahedi

Introduction:

Tu Jan 18: The Four Branches of Macroeconomics (read ch. 1: Introduction to Macroeconomics).
Th Jan 20: Keeping Track of the Macroeconomy (read chs. 2 and 3: Measuring the Macroeconomy and Thinking Like an Economist).

Growth Economics:

Tu Jan 25: Economic Growth Overview (read ch. 4: The Theory of Economic Growth).
Th Jan 27: Why Is the World So Divergent? (read ch. 5: The Reality of Economic Growth) (problem set 1 due).
Tu Feb 01: Economic Growth since 1800.
Th Feb 03: The Efficiency of Labor/Spurring the Rate of Technological and Organizational Progress (problem set 2 due).

Depression Economics:

Tu Feb 08: Introduction to Depression Economics.
Th Feb 10: INSTRUCTOR SICK Tu Feb 15: The Income-Expenditure Model (read chs. 6 and 9: Building Blocks of the Flexible-Price Model and The Income-Expenditure Framework) (problem set 3 due).
Th Feb 17: The Investment-Savings Model (read ch. 10: Investment, Net Exports, and Interest Rates) (problem set 4 due).
Tu Feb 22: The Central Bank, Interest Rates, and Financial Markets (read ch 11: Extending the Sticky Price Model).
Th Feb 24: The Financial Crisis and the Economic Downturn (problem set 5 due).
Tu Mar 01: Policies to Fight the Great Recession.
Th Mar 03: Price Stickiness (read chs. 8 and 12: Money, Prices, and Inflation and The Phillips Curve and Expectations) (problem set 6 due).

Midterm:

Tu Mar 08: Pre-Midterm Review.
Th Mar 10: Growth-and-Depression Midterm.

Inflation Economics:

Tu Mar 15: Inflation and the Phillips Curve
Th Mar 17: Expected Inflation and the Natural Rate of Unemployment.
Tu Mar 29: Monetary Policy Reactions (read ch. 13: Stabilization Policy). Th Mar 31: From the Short-Run to the Long-Run (problem set 7 due).

Debt-and-Deficit Economics:

Tu Apr 5: The Government's Taxes and Spending.
Th Apr 7: Depression-and-Inflation Midterm
Tu Apr 12: Debt Economics: Crowding Out and Crowding In (read chs. 7 and 14: Equilibrium in the Flexible Price Model and The Budget Balance, the National Debt, and Investment).
Th Apr 14: The Long-Run Budget Problem (problem set 8 due).

Topics

Tu Apr 19: Topics.
Th Apr 21: Topics (problem set 9 due).
Tu Apr 25: Topics.

Final:

Th Apr 28: Final Review
Th May 12: 8-11: FINAL EXAM

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