For students: advice and feedback hours run in term time, in S1.128b or on Microsoft Teams. Book a regular slot on Tuesdays 11:00 - 13:00 or an EC331 slot on Tuesdays 09:00 - 10:00. For help with a dissertation, see Planning and writing a dissertation on the Resources page.
EC916: Global Finance (Module Leader 24/27 Term 2)
EC135: Topics in Applied Economics (1b) (Module Lecturer 23/25 Term 2)
EC134: Topics in Macro and International Economics (Module Lecturer 25/26 Term 1, Module Leader 26/27 Term 1)
EC201: Macroeconomics 2 (UG Tutorials 21/27, Term 1/2)
EC204: Economics 2: Macroeconomics (UG Tutorials 21/24, and 25/27, Term 2)
EC9D4: Macroeconomics A (PG Tutorials 21/27, Term 1)
EC331: Research in Applied Economics (UG Dissertation Supervision 21/27, Term 1/2)
EC959: Dissertation (Economics MSc Supervision 21/27, Term 3)
EC230: Economics of Money & Banking (UG Tutorials 22/24, Term 1)
RAE Helpdesk for UG Dissertations (21/22, Term 2)
EC961T Intro Mathematics and Statistics (PG Tutorials 22/23, Term 1)
EC956: Macroeconomics (Module Leader 24/27 Term 2)
International Business and Finance (Module Lecturer 21/26, Summer Term)
Environmental Economics (Invited Diaspora Lecturer 24/25 Term 2)
Macroeconomics of Money and Financial Markets (PG Tutorials, 2019/2020)
Macroeconomics 2 (UG Tutorials, 2018-2020)
Money and Banking (UG Tutorials, 2017/18)
Public Economics (UG Tutorials, 2017/18)
Introduction to Economics (UG Tutorials, 2012-2017), Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Tirana
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Move the sliders and the chart redraws. The Taylor rule below is from EC204; models from my lectures are on the module pages for EC916 Global Finance and EC956 Macroeconomics.
The chart compares the federal funds rate with the rate Taylor's (1993) rule gives in each quarter since 1960. Move the sliders to change the equilibrium real rate, the inflation target or the weights, and switch the inflation measure. Tap or hover on the chart to see the numbers for any quarter.
Inflation is the change in prices over the previous four quarters, measured with the GDP deflator, as in Taylor (1993), or with core PCE prices, which the Fed uses to gauge underlying inflation. The output gap is the percent difference between real GDP and the Congressional Budget Office's estimate of potential output; Taylor measured it against a trend. The rule is not bounded at zero. Data from FRED, through 2026 Q2.
Try a weight of 1 on the output gap, a common variant, and compare what the rule says in 2009 and 2020.