Applied Macro- and International Economics

Lecture Notes

SES #	TOPICS	LECTURE NOTES
1	Introduction and the money multiplier via babysitters	(PDF)
2	Germany and Zimbabwe: Monetary policy and the velocity theory of money
3	The IS-LM model	(PDF)
4	Japan, Ireland, and the Great Depression: Applications of the IS-LM model: Fiscal policy and the Great Depression
5	AD-AS and long run adjustment: The connection to inflation	(PDF)
6	Central bank accounting	(PDF - 1.5MB)
7	World through inflation	(PDF)
8	Banking crisis and accounting
9	Theories of nominal exchange rates: Short-run and long-run	(PDF - 1.3MB)
10	Fiscal currency crises (GAME: Greece, Argentina, Mexico, and Everyone else)
11	Self-fulfilling currency crises (MIT: Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand)
12	Exchange-rate regimes	(PDF)
13	Capital controls, exchange rate regimes, and unemployment: The unholy trinity	(PDF)
14	US financial crisis
15	Debate 1: The international role of the dollar
16	Debate 2: The Euro
17	Introduction to development economics