Notes

• The Basics of the Housing Bubble:

  • The notes for Tuesday, September 9, are here.

  • Please check out these notes from M. Cary Leahey, Senior Advisor to Decision Economics. He was kind enough to share them with our class.

• Speculative Bubbles:

  • The notes for Thursday, September 11, are here.

• The Role of Policy in the Housing Bubble:

  • The notes for Tuesday, September 16, are here.

• Housing and the Business Cycle:

  • • The notes for Tuesday, September 23, are here.

• Mortgage Backed Securities:

  • • The notes for Thursday, September 25, are here.

• Credit Cycles:

  • The notes for Tuesday, September 30, are here. Please note, there are a few blank slides - that was done intentionally.

• The Financial Panic of 2008:

  • The notes for Thursday, October 2, are here.

• Monetary Economics: Theory and Evidence:

  • The notes for Tuesday, October 21, and Thursday, October 24 are here.

• Conventional Monetary Policy:

  • The notes for Tuesday, November 4 are here.

• Fiscal Policy:

  • The notes for Thursday, November 13, Tuesday, November 18, and Thursday November 20, are here.

Please note, all of the above represent undergraduate lecture notes. They are subject to error. Appropriate citations are provided, but any mistakes are my own.