Economics 281, Special Topics This course is a graduate macroeconomics elective University of California, San Diego This page last revised October 2, 2015
INSTRUCTORS: Professor Ross Starr, Professor Johannes Wieland STARR'S OFFICE: Room 325, Economics, UCSD, Hours TBA WIELAND'S OFFICE: Room 309, Economics, UCSD, Hours TBA Fall 2015 COURSE SCHEDULE: M W 10:30 - 11:50 AM, 300 Economics. No class meeting: November 11 (Veterans Day Holiday). COURSE INFORMATION One of the course requirements is a brief student presentation to the class, typically of an item from the syllabus, choice to be approved by one of the instructing faculty. In weeks 1 - 5, the items by Kyungmin Kim and those in section IX of the syllabus are particularly suitable for presentation. ADDITIONAL READINGS: Models of Monetary Economies (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) Kyungmin Kim's Notes on Ostroy-Starr Kyungmin Kim's Notes on Ostroy-Starr's Proposition 3 Newhouse's "The Emergence of Commodity Money as a Medium of Exchange" Lagos-Rochetau-Wright "Liquidity: A New Monetarist Perspective" JEL forthcoming. |
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