Vanessa V. Ribeiro

Doctoral Candidate

ARSC 1432 Macroeconomics Co-seminar

MASP-SASC -McNeill Program

Spring 2009

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Tentative Semester Schedule:

Week #:	Days	Topic	Assignments:
			Handout	Short-answer Problems		Review Questions
				Questions	Answers	Questions	Answers
1	Jan 12, Jan 13	Syllabus and Micro review
	Jan 14, Jan 15	The data of Macroeconomics	Macroeconomics
2	Jan 19, Jan 20	Measuring a nation's income	CPI & GDP Deflator	SAP_Q	SAP_ANS	RQ	RQ_ANS
	Jan 21, Jan 22	Measuring the cost of living	Cost of living	SAP_Q	SAP_ANS	RQ	RQ_ANS
3	Jan 26, Jan 27	Savings, Investment and the Financial System	S, I, Financial System	SAP_Q	SAP_ANS	RQ	RQ_ANS
	Jan 28, Jan 29	Production and Growth	Prod & Growth			RQ	RQ_ANS
4	Feb 2, Feb 3	My introduction to the class
	Feb 4, Feb 5	Labor markets, unemployment	Unemployment	SAP_Q	SAP_ANS	RQ	RQ_ANS
5	Feb 9, Feb 10	Money Growth and Inflation	Money growth	SAP_Q	SAP_ANS	RQ	RQ_ANS
	Feb 11, Feb 12	Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply	AD and AS	SAP_Q	SAP_ANS	RQ(2)	RQ(2)_ANS
6	Feb 16, Feb17	Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply				RQ(1)	RQ(1)_ANS
	Feb 18, Feb 19	Review for test 1
7	Feb 23, Feb 24	Test 1				Test 1	Answers at the end of .pdf file
	Feb 25, Feb 26	Solve test 1 in class
8	Mar 2, Mar 3	Fiscal Policy	Fiscal Policy	SAP	SAP_ANS	RQ	Answers at the end of .pdf file
	Mar 4, Mar 5	Money, Banking and the Monetary System
9	Mar 9, Mar 10	Money, Banking and the Monetary System
	Mar 11, Mar 12	Monetary Policy
10	Mar 16, Mar 17	Monetary Policy
	Mar 18, Mar 19	Inflation, Disinflation and Deflation
11	Mar 23, Mar 24	SPRING BREAK!!!!!
	Mar 25, Mar 26
12	Mar 30, Mar 31	Inflation, Disinflation and Deflation
	Apr 1, Apr 2	Review for test 2
13	Apr 6, Apr 7	Test 2
	Apr 8, Apr 9	Solve test 2 in class
14	Apr 13, Apr 14	Long-run economic growth
	Apr 15, Apr 16	Open-economy: Basics
15	Apr 20, Apr 21	Open economy: Three panel diagram
	Apr 22, Apr 23	FCQ's
16	Apr 27, Apr 28	Final review 1
	Apr 29, Apr 30	Final review 2

*FCQs are the Faculty Course Questionnaire. It is an opportunity for students to evaluate the TA (instructors and professors as well) and recitations and make suggestions for improvement. For more info go to: http://www.colorado.edu/pba/fcq/BkgrInfo.html

Handouts:

Co-seminar sessions:

Section Days Time Location

ARSC 1432 760 MW 5:00 PM - 5:50 PM KOBL 355

ARSC 1432 763 TR 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM KOBL 355

ARSC 1432 762 TR 3:30 PM - 4:30PM KOBL 355

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Office and Office hours: Room 311, Willard Building

Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2pm to 3:30pm.

Office phone number: (303)

E-mail: Ribeiro@colorado.edu (preferred)

Links:

§ Macroeconomics Co-seminar syllabus

§ Economics drop-in tutorial lab info

Last update: March 5^th, 2009.