Eco315

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)