Facts:
Class Meetings: Tuesday & Thursday, 11:00-12:15, Gardner 106
Instructor: Michael K. Salemi
Instructor's Office: 301 Gardner Hall
Office Hours: Tu & Th 1:00-2:00, and by appointment
Instructor's Phone: 966-5391 (office), 929-9504 (home)
Instructor's Email: Michael_Salemi@unc.edu

The course Fact Sheet provides the goals and rules of the course. The course Calendar provides a class-by-class list of topics and assignments.  The course Syllabus provides and overview of course topics and a citation list of all readings.

Course Resources and Links
Gregory Mankiw Columns and Speeches

Fred II: St Louis Federal Reserve Data Source
 
 

Pools of Questions for Examinations
Midterm (2003)
Final (2003)
 

In-Class Exercises
1. First Day Discusssion
2. Model of Aggregate Demand (Chapter 3 of Mankiw)
 

Excel Spreadsheets
1.  Growth and Growth Formulas
2.  Cobb Douglas Production Function
3.  Assignment One
4.  Assignment Two
5.  Solow Growth Model
 
 

Clusters of Discussion Questions
1.  U.S. Fiscal Policy in the 1980's: Consequences of Large Budget Deficits at Full Employment by Benjamin M. Friedman

2.  Past and Prospective Causes of High Unemployment by Paul Krugman

3. Some Macroeconomics for the 21st Century by Robert E. Lucas

4.  Inflation Targets and Inflation Targeting by Laurence H. Meyer

5.  Privatizing U.S. Social Security: Some Possible Effects on Intergenerational Equity and the Economy by Laurence J. Kotlikoff
 

Graded Homework Assignments
1. Assignment One

2. Assignment Two

3. Assignment Three

4. Assignment Four

5.  Assignment Five