Contents
-announcements
-lecture notes
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--homeworks
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-recommended books
- Alan S. Blinder, "Central Banking in Theory and Practice", MIT Press
- Lawrence H. Meyer, "A Term at the Fed: An Insider's View", Harper Paperbacks
-useful sites (will be added as we cover new materials):
(general)
-The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online (http://www.dictionaryofeconomics.com/dictionary)
-FRB: FOMC website (http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomc.htm)
(relevant to class materials) - will be added further
- Back in Demand: (Book review by G. Mankiw posted on WSJ.com)
- Sticky Prices: Why firms hesitate to adjust the price of their goods (HTML version here)
- "The Use of Monetary Aggregates as a Guide to Policy" (Thoma 2005, controversies surrounding money and interest rate)
- "A Brief History of Central Banks" (Bordo, 2007)
(data)
-Resource for Economists web site (http://rfe.org/): links to data / information that helps in your project
-Gapminder (www.gapminder.org/): has relevant data on economic growth
-Economic Data FRED (http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/): all sorts of U.S. macro data.
(journals)
-Economist.com: Authoritative weekly newspaper focusing on international politics and business news and opinion (http://www.economist.com/)
-WSJ Blogs: Real Time Economics (http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/): Economic insight and analysis from The Wall Street Journal.
(academic papers)
-Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com/): search engine for academic papers
(personal blogs)
-Greg Mankiw's Blog (http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/): Author of the famous textbook. Writes everyday on current topics
(interview manuscripts / movies)
- Nobel Prize Lecture:
1996 Robert Lucas
1999 Robert Mundell
2004 Finn Kydland / Ed Prescott
2006 Edmund Phelps
- Speeches / remarks by Fed officials
Remarks by Ben Bernanke (May.22.09)