Econ 345 - Fall 2004

Syllabus

- Course description and outline

- New syllabus

- Cochrane Survey
- Shiller Nobel lecture
- Varian 87


- Lecture 1


- Cochrane text

 

Problem Sets

Problem Set 1 (due October 25)
Problem Set 2 (due December 6)

Readings

Kasa (1995) -- "Understanding Trends in Foreign Exchange Rates"

Krugman (1999) -- "O Canada"

Mundell (2000) -- "A Reconsideration of the Twentieth Century"

Kasa (1999) --  "Why Attack a Currency Board?"

Obstfeld (1998) -- "The Global Capital Market: Benefactor or Menace?"

Kasa (1999) -- "Time for a Tobin Tax?"

DeLong (2004) -- "Should We Still Support Untrammelled International Capital Mobility? Or are
                                Capital Controls Less Evil than We Once Believed?"

Kasa (2004) -- "A Glossary of Terms and Concepts in International Finance"