Intermediate Macroeconomics
Fall 2013
Jeffrey Parker, Reed College
Assignments
Daily Problems
- September 6: GDP and Well-Being
- September 9: Measuring Real GDP
- September 11: Working with the Cobb-Douglas Production Function
- September 13: Curves in the Solow Diagram
- September 16: Conditional Convergence
- September 18: Endogenous Growth
- September 23: Unemployment Compensation
- September 25: Labor Policies in Italy (NY Times article)
- September 27: Steady-State Inflation
- September 30: Exchange Rates
- October 2: Real Interest Rates
- October 7: Keynes's Consumption Factors
- October 9: Investment
- October 14: Monetary Policy
- October 28: Keynesian Multiplier
- October 30: The IS and TR Curves
- November 1: Interest-Rate Parity
- November 4: Fixed Exchange Rates
- November 6: Real-Rate Parity
- November 11: Phillips Curve
- November 13: Fixed Exchange Rates Again
- November 18: Term Structure of Interest Rates
- November 20: Expressions for q
- November 27: Volcker Disinflation
- December 2: Debt-GDP Ratios
- December 4: Disinflation
- December 9: Laffer Curve
Problem Sets
- Problem Set #1: Due September 20 Solutions
- Problem Set #2: Due October 4 Solutions
- Problem Set #3: Due October 11 Solutions
- Problem Set #4: Due November 8
- Problem Set #5: Due November 15
- Problem Set #6: Due November 22