ECON 320 - Macroeconomic Theory II
Fall 2009
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The midterm exam will be held in class on TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27
Instructor: Allen Head
- Office: 234 Dunning Hall
- Telephone: 533-6308
- Office Hours: Mondays, 2:30-4:00pm
- E-mail: heada@econ.queensu.ca
T.A.:
Monica Jain
- Office: 335 Dunning Hall
- Telephone: 533-2280
- Office Hours: Thursdays, 11:30am-1:00pm
- E-mail:
jainm@econ.queensu.ca
T.A.:
Davood Motadayyen
- Office: 333 Dunning Hall
- Telephone: 533-6000 ext 75482
- Office Hours: Tuesdays, 2:00-3:30pm
- E-mail:
davood@econ.queensu.ca
Meeting
Times:
The class will meet in Kingston Hall 200 from 4:00-5:20pm on Tuesdays
and from 2:30-3:50pm on Thursdays.
Tutorials and review sessions may
also be held from time to time.
Such sessions will be announced here if and when they are scheduled.
Text:
Macroeconomic Theory and Policy
David Andolfatto
Manuscript, Simon Fraser University, 2008
This text is available for
purchase at the Publishing and Copy Centre in the basement of the JDUC. It is also available here.
Course
Description:
This course will focus on the
causes, characteristics, and consequences of medium to short-run fluctuations
in aggregate economic activity, or ``business cycles''. The analysis will be
conducted within the context of neoclassical theory, and much of the course
will be devoted to developing specific models. Some attention will be devoted
also to the effects of government policies on aggregate economic variables in
these models.
For the
most part we will follow the Andolfatto text, and will supplement it with a few
readings. The course
outline lists specific topics in the order that they will be covered and
the readings that will go with each topic. This will be updated as readings are
added and where possible those readings will be linked from the outline page. A
printable syllabus
(pdf) is also available and, like the outline, may be updated from time to time
with the latest version posted at this link. Marks will be determined as
described in the course
requirements.
Assignments
and Answers:
Assignment
1 ( Due Tuesday, October 13th )
Assignment
2 ( Due Thursday, October 22nd)
Assignment
3 ( Due Tuesday, November 24th)
Assignment
4 ( Due Thursday, December 4th)
The midterm will cover topics 1 through 6 on the course outline.
Questions will be of two forms. There will be short-answer questions, and problems similar to those on the assignments.
Here is an example of an old exam. This exam covers similar material and has questions of a similar type to those that will be on our exam. Here is an example of an old final exam.
The final exam will cover topics 1 through 11 on the course outline.
Questions will be similar in format to those on the midterm exam.
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