Economics 440
Analysis of Public Finance
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Professor Jonathan
B. Hill
Office: Gardner 300B
Email: jbhill@email.unc.edu
Office Hours: Mon., Wed. 1-2pm
Jump to: Data ** Syllabus/Excel/Notes** Assignments/Readings
Calendars
Examination Times
Midterm
Exam : Thur. Feb. 25, in class.
Final Exam : Sat. May 1, 8am.
Announcements
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.
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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