Announcements

  • 12 April: The final exam is cumulative and will cover Chapters 1-10.

  • 11 April: Assignment 4 is marked and is now available at the Distribution Centre.

  • 4 April: Answers to Assignment 4 have been posted here.

  • 3 April: 28 March: Section B slides for Chapters 6-10 and 13 and Section A slides for Chapter 8 have been posted here ..

  • 30 March: In order to solve question 1 (b) on assignment 4, you need the additional information that velocity is equal to one.

  • 28 March: There will be a tutorial, which will consist of a review for the final exam, on Tuesday 12 April 2011 from 14:00 to 15:30 in Kingston 201 ..

  • 28 March: I have just been notified by the ARC Customer Service that a student in ECON 222A has lost its notebook. Please contact them if you are that person.

  • 28 March: Section A slides for Lecture 11 to 21 have been posted here .

  • 24 March: Assignment 3 is marked and is now available at the Distribution Centre.

  • 21 March: Answers to Assignment 3 have been posted here.

  • 19 March: Assignment 4 has been posted here.

  • 16 March: Please note that there was a small typo in the answer key of your midterm exam. The answer for Question A-1 a) should be N=46.67. It has now been updated here.

  • 14 March: Midterms are marked and are now available at the Distribution Centre.

  • 8 March: There was a mistake in the answer key for question 2 part c) of Assignment #2. It has now been corrected and a new version has been updated here.

  • 4 March: The midterm and the answers to it have been posted here.

  • 3 March: Assignment 3 has been posted here.

  • 28 February: REMINDER: Please not that there is a classroom change for section A for the March 4th class only, it will take place in Dupuis Hall 215.

  • 28 February: Please note that the midterm will only cover Chapters 1 to 5.

  • 17 February: Assignment 2 is marked and will be available at the Distribution Centre tomorrow afternoon (18 February).

  • 13 February: Answers to assignment 2 have been posted here.

  • 13 February: Section B set of slides for Chapters 1-5 have been posted here .

  • 9 February: Assignment 1 is marked and is now available at the Distribution Centre.

  • 9 February: There is a classroom change for section A for the March 4th class only, it will take place in Dupuis Hall 215.

  • 9 February: REMINDER: Please note that the midterm for both sections will take place outside scheduled time slots on Tuesday March 1st from 18:30 to 20:30 in Walter Light Hall 205 . For that reason classes on March 1st for section B and March 2nd for section A are cancelled.

  • 9 February: Section A slides for Lecture 1 to 10 have been posted here .

  • 8 February: There will be a tutorial, which will consist of a review for the midterm, on Monday 28 February 2011 from 19:00 to 20:30 in Dunning 14 .

  • 2 February: Please note that a new version of assignment 2 has just been posted. For question 1c) you should have an increase of 10% instead of 25%.
  • 31 January: Answers to assignment 1 and assignment 2 have been posted here. Please note that there are some typos to the answers provided to question 1 e) table 2. The fourth and fifth columns should be as follows:
    24,836
    56,515     127.56 %
    62,911     11.32 %

  • 31 January: The math review file has been updated with answers to the examples: here .

  • 26 January: Please note that the midterm for both sections will take place outside scheduled time slots on Tuesday March 1st from 18:30 to 20:30 in Walter Light Hall 205 .


  • 14 January: TAs office hours have been released, you can find their schedules here.

  • 14 January: Assignment 1 has been posted here. It is due on Friday 28 January 2011 at noon, in the Dunning Hall drop box. Note that it MUST include a cover page.

  • 10 January: Appendix 4.1 has been posted here.

  • 10 January: Please note that the midterm for both sections will take place outside scheduled time slots on Tuesday March 1st from 18:30 to 20:30. The location is TBA.

  • 10 January : There will be a tutorial, which will consist of a review of the math needed for this course, on Thursday 20 January 2011 from 19:00 to 20:30 in Dunning 14.

  • The textbook - "Macroeconomics" (Fifth Canadian Edition) written by Andrew B. Abel, Ben S. Bernanke, and Ronald D. Kneebone is available in the bookstore.                                                   



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