Economics 281, Special Topics

This course is a graduate macroeconomics elective

University of California, San Diego
Fall 2015

This page last revised October 2, 2015

 

Carl Menger Gerard Debreu George Knapp Frank Hahn

Carl Menger

Gerard Debreu

George Knapp

Frank Hahn

Carl Menger Gerard Debreu George Knapp Frank Hahn Frank Hahn

Randy Wright

Karl Shell

Neil Wallace

Nobu Kiyotaki

Robert Townsend


INSTRUCTORS: Professor Ross Starr, Professor Johannes Wieland

STARR'S OFFICE: Room 325, Economics, UCSD, Hours TBA
STARR'S CONTACT: rstarr@ucsd.edu , 858-534-3879

WIELAND'S OFFICE: Room 309, Economics, UCSD, Hours TBA
WIELAND'S CONTACT: jfwieland@ucsd.edu ,

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.

Syllabus Weeks 1 -5

Syllabus Weeks 6 - 10

Lecture Notes for Sept. 30

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.

Starr's "Why is there Money?"

Hilaire Belloc's "The Money Made of Paper"

UCSD Library Economics Guide