Economics 440
Analysis of Public Finance
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Professor Jonathan
B. Hill
Office: Gardner 300B
Email: jbhill@email.unc.edu
Web : www.unc.edu/~jbhill
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Calendars
Final Exam Schedule
Examination Times
Midterm
Exam : (normal class time)
Final Exam :
Announcements
(Dec. 18) The unadjusted final exam average is 72. The scores were
adjusted: the adjusted average is 76. The unadjusted high score is 100; the unadjusted low score
is 31; no one received extra credit points (a few were close, but no one
actually proved every component of the FFTWE).
Grades have been posted, and will be
available from UNC shortly.
You can obtain your exam during my spring
semester office hours. Check any of my spring course web-sites for the office
hours (wait until the first week of class to check for my office hours in case
I change them at the last minute).
(Aug. 24) Download and read the syllabus. If a student takes
this course, they implicitly agree with every statement, condition, and
policy referred to, implied by, and stated in the syllabus.
(Aug. 24) Students who wish to refresh their memory on calculus et al,
see the Math
Review.
Students who want more information on intermediate consumer/producer theory
read Theory of
Consumer/Producer. Students are assumed to know the complete contents of each
document. If you have any doubt, work through them, and have an intermediate
micro text near by when you do the homework
Later in the semester we will work with a
labor model that is part of the Classical Model well known to
students of intermediate macroeconomics.
Assignments
are due at the beginning of lecture.
Assignments placed in my mail-box
are not accepted: they are considered late, and as per the
syllabus, late assignments are never accepted. If you believe you will be late,
turn the assignment in early. Emailed homework ON THE DUE DATE is
never accepted:
such emails will be automatically deleted. If you believe you will be late, you
need to arrange to turn the assignment in early. Feel free, however, to email me homework for
advice (they simply cannot be emailed when they are due).
Grades are non-negotiable. Homework
can never be late, under any circumstance, including legal, religious,
athletic and medical “emergencies”, conditions, events, etc. This applies since
I post answers keys. However, with proof of an unavoidable emergency, I will
re-weight the total homework grade.
If a student misses an assignment due
to a UNC sanctioned event, the remaining assignments will be re-weighted. It is
entirely up to the student to provide proof of such sanctioned events AT
LEAST ONE WEEK PRIOR TO EACH ASSIGNMENT’S DUE DATE. In other words, it
is not my responsibility to keep track of your sports/band/etc.
schedule, so do not provide me a semester schedule of your sports/band/etc.
out-of-town dates. Give me written permission at least one week prior to
each missed date.
Online Data Sources
The following are excellent sources of free on-line data.
Board
of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Federal
Reserve of Saint Louis: FRED Data Bank
Extensive array of time series data; seasonally adjusted or unadjusted; real or nominal.
The BLS, a branch of the Dept. of Labor, provides data and research on a variety of labor topics.
Current
Population Survey [CPS]
Multiple panels of a wide variety of labor/health statistics.
International
Monetary Fund [IMF]: Data bases.
World Bank: Data archives.
Organization of Economic
Cooperation and Developement [OECD].
Penn World Table: A large archive of country
specific data provided by the University of Pennsylvania.
National
Bureau of Economic Research [NBER] General Data
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