Winter 2016 Final Exam Resources

Documents for EMT, CAPM and Merton

Resources for Winter 2016 Midterm Exam (February 17, 2016)

Guidelines for Revised Posts

  1. Revised posts should be mechanically a separate post from the original. This makes it possible to take a look at how you revised.
  2. Please email Miles and Jacob the link for the revised, post, NOT an attachment. 
  3. Title the email that has the link to your revised blog post “Econ 411: Revised Post #n” where n = 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5. 
  4. On all your posts, make sure to make your references a link done by highlighting some phrase and entering the link over that phrase, not by putting references at the bottom. Highlighted links are the proper form in blog posts. 
  5. Revised posts count as a post for a particular deadline you face. So you don’t need to do a regular post for a particular deadline when you do a revised post. However, if it is an easy revision, you might want to do a regular post as well in order to get ahead.
  6. You should spread out when you do the revised posts. It is getting about time for you to do your first revised post. Miles will give specific guidelines for when revised posts should be done by.   

Document for Review of Statistics

Winter 2016 Assigned Readings: Blog Posts

By 2d class:

By 3d class:

By 6th class:

By 7th class:

By 8th class: 

By 9th class:

By 10th class:

By 11th class:

By the Midterm:

By End of Break:

I know this is a lot; read through quickly just to get background and ideas of what to say in blog posts you write about the Fed’s decision on March 16, 2015 (special blog topic assignment).

By Wednesday, March 16:

By Wednesday, April 6:

By Wednesday, April 13

By Monday, April 18

Student Guest Posts on supplysideliberal.com

Winter Semester, 2014

Winter Semester, 2015

Fall Semester, 2015

Winter Semester, 2016

Winter 2016: Don’t Worry If You Are Waitlisted

Although I don’t know what will happen this time, I have been teaching this class for many, many years, and have always been able to let everyone in who wanted to get into the class. The simple reason is that many students drop the class when they realize that the class is quite rigorous. You will learn a lot, but you will also need to work hard. In particular, the place you will both learn the most and work the hardest in this class is in writing your own regular blog posts about economic issues.  

Here is the syllabus for Fall 2015. It won’t be that different for Winter 2016, though of course the dates will change. Take a good look to see if the class if right for you.

You can also get a better sense of the class by looking at the whole class assignment blog. I will add new assignment posts this coming semester, but also leave the old posts from last year up. We might still need Ctools a little, but I generally try to do Ctools-like functions with this class assignment blog.

In any case, I won’t give any overrides at this point, since I don’t think they will be necessary in the end. If you are interested in the class, just show up on the first day of class, expecting to be in the class.

Documents for the Intertemporal Consumption/Saving Decision

Final Exam Resources

Resources for Fall 2015 Midterm Exam (October 21, 2015)

Miscellaneous

Let me ask everyone to submit their first revised post by Wednesday night (October 7) at 11 PM. This counts as a post for your regular deadline. However, if the revision is an easy one, you should use the opportunity to get ahead by doing another post too.

A few other miscellaneous points:

  1. Please put “Econ 411” as the first words in any of your emails to me or Owen. That makes it easier to manage our bulging email inboxes.
  2. References should not be at the bottom of your post. They should be inserted as links “on top of” words in the post at the appropriate point. If you don’t know how to do this technically, ask a classmate or Owen. Recall that the citation rule is (a) a functioning link and (b) enough information that the reference can be googled if the link breaks. I am making explicit (c ) the link should not appear as a link but be “on top of” appropriate words of the text, which makes those words look highlighted.
  3. When Vamika asked about how negative interest rates stimulate the economy through the capital flow/net export channel, I should have pointed everyone to the post I assigned “International Finance: A Primer.” In addition, I just added 3 more posts as reading assignments that directly talk about international finance and negative rates within the same post.
  4. I was wrong about the example with X and Z affecting each other with known strengths. I plan to make a (I hope relatively easy) homework assignment that makes this clear.
  5. One more small thing: Please use a double return for paragraphing in your posts. That makes things more compatible with Tumblr, which I hope to copy many of your posts into.  

Recommendations of People to Follow on Twitter

One of the easiest ways to get acquainted with a wide range of economics articles online is through Twitter.

I think you will find it worth your while to follow my on Twitter: I routinely tweet Wall Street Journal articles that I find interesting, and often tweet other articles of interest. On Twitter, I am @mileskimball. That is, you can find me at

https://twitter.com/mileskimball

Some other twitter feeds you might want to follow for economics are:

  1. @noahpinion
  2. @NYTimeskrugman
  3. @delong
  4. @dandolfatto
  5. @anatadmati
  6. @frances_coppola
  7. @pieriaview
  8. @markthoma
  9. @jp_koning
  10. @izakaminska
  11. @prosyn
  12. @voxeu
  13. @umichecon
  14. @davidbeckworth
  15. @azizonomics

Documents for Review of Statistics

Fall 2015 Assigned Readings: Blog Posts

By 2d class:

By 3d class:

By 4th class:

By 5th class:

By 6th class:

By 7th class:

By 8th class:

By 9th class:

By 10th class:

By 11th class:

By the Midterm

By 1st Class after Midterm

By 4th Class after Midterm

By 5th Class after Midterm

By 6th Class after Midterm

By 7th Class after Midterm

By 8th Class after Midterm

By 9th Class after Midterm

By 10th Class after Midterm

By Last Class

Fall 2015: Don’t Worry If You Are Waitlisted

Although I don’t know what will happen this time, I have been teaching this class for many, many years, and have always been able to let everyone in who wanted to get into the class. The simple reason is that many students drop the class when they realize that the class is quite rigorous. You will learn a lot, but you will also need to work hard. In particular, the place you will both learn the most and work the hardest in this class is in writing your own regular blog posts about economic issues.  

Here is the syllabus for Fall 2015. Take a good look to see if the class if right for you.

You can also get a better sense of the class by looking at the whole class assignment blog. I will add new assignment posts this coming semester, but also leave the old posts from last year up. We might still need Ctools a little, but I generally try to do Ctools-like functions with this class assignment blog.

In any case, I won’t give any overrides at this point, since I don’t think they will be necessary in the end. If you are interested in the class, just show up on the first day of class, expecting to be in the class.