Phillip LeBel

Macroeconomic Principles

As posted on the syllabus, this course contains weblinks to datasets, application modules, classroom case studies, and electronic reserve readings. These web-based materials are listed below.

Macroeconomic Principles

Course Syllabus

Macroeconomic Datasets
1.
  Africa Data
2.
  Big Mac Currency Index
3.
  Bills, Bonds, Stocks, Inflation
4.
  Bond Market Profile
5.
  Comparative Advantage in Perspective
6.
  U.S. Consumer Price Indices
7.
  Corruption and Economic Development, 2001
8.
  Corruption Perceptions Index 2000
9.
  Corruption Perceptions Index 2001
10.
  Corruption Perceptions Index 2000-2008
11.
  Devaluation and Inflation
12.
  East European Economies 1980-2007
13.
  Economic Freedom and Corruption
14.
  Education and Income
15.
  Energy Efficiency; Energy Efficiency.html
16.
  Generosity Index 2001
17.
  Generosity Index 2004
18.
  Global Trading Groups
19.
  Globalization Trends
20.
  Growth and Development
21.
  Growth and Trade
22.
  Inflation and Key Federal Reserve Interest Rates
23.
  International Health Care
24.
  International Productivity
25.
  International R and D Patterns
26.
  Measuring Global Information Levels
27.
  Official Foreign Exchange Reserves
28.
  Ownership of U.S. Public Debt
29.
  Risk and Economic Growth
30.
  Risk Perception Rankings
31.
  The United Nations and Political Balkanization
32.
  Stock Market Bubbles
33.
  Stock Market Volatility
34.
  Do Types of Taxation Affect Real Per Capita GDP?
35.
  Tax Havens
36.
  The European Union
37.
  The Misery Index
38.
  U.S. Agriculture; U.S.Agriculture.html
39.
  U.S. Balance of Payments
40.
  U.S.Budget and Trade Balance
41.
  U.S. Budget Trends
42.
  U.S.Civilian Labor Force
43.
  U.S. Civilian Population
44.
  U. S. Current GDP 1929-2008
45.
  U.S. GDP, GNP, NNP, NI, and PI, 1929-2008
46.
  U.S. Government State NetTransfers
47.
  U.S. Gross Saving and Investment
48.
  U.S. Income Inequality Trends
49.
  U.S. Inflation and Unemployment
50.
  U.S. Information Systems Density
51.
  U.S. International Trade Balances
52.
  U.S. MZM Broad Money Supply
53.
  U.S. Money and Spending Velocity
54.
  U.S. National Income Accounting
55.
  U.S. Real GDP 1959-2003
56.
  U.S. Personal Saving Rates
57.
  U.S. Structural Trends
58.
  U.S. Unemployment Rates
59.
  U.S. Union Membership
60.
  1997 Index of Economic Freedom
61.
  2000 Index of Economic Freedom
62.
  2009 Index of Economic Freedom

Application Modules
1.
  Atkinson Inequality
2.
  Basic Cost Benefit Analysis
3.
  Basic Forecasting
4.
  Circular Flow Diagram
5.
  Chaos in Asset Pricing
6.
  Commodity Price Stabilization
7.
  Comparative Advantage
8.
  Deriving Comparative Advantage
9.
  Devaluation and Inflation
10.
  Economic Functions of the Public Sector
11.
  Economic Terminology
12.
  Engel Curves
13.
  Estimating an Engel Curve
14.
  Excise Taxation
15.
  Excise Tax Criteria
16.
  Externalities
17.
  Income Differentials
18.
  Income Inequality Measurement
19.
  Leontief Basic Static Input-Output Model
20.
  Matrix Operations
21.
  Optimal Food Stamp Pricing
22.
  Optimal Taxation of Negative Externalities
23.
  Pension Systems
24.
  PMacroeconomicsFirstExamReview
25.
  PMacroeconomics Second Exam Review
26.
  P Macro Final Review
27.
  Production Possibilities
28.
  Regression Demand and Supply
29.
  Social Discrimination
30.
  Static Market Equilibrium
31.
  Stock Market Valuation
32.
  The Big Mac Currency Index
33.
  Tariffs and Quotas in International Trade
34.
  The Circular Flow of an Economy
35.
  The Cobweb Model
36.
  The Gini Inequality Model
37.
  The Measurement of Risk
38.
  The Ranking of Risk
39.
  Point Voting Systems
40.
  Voting Systems

Case Studies
1.
  Trade Production Possibility
2.
  Basic Supply and Demand
3.
  Economics of Excise Taxes
4.
  Trade and Tariff Economics
5.
  U.S. National Income Accounting
6.
  U.S. Nominal and Real GDP
7.
  The Basic Harrod Domar Model
8.
  Loanable Funds Equilibrium
9.
  The Equation of Exchange
10.
  Macroeconomic Equilibrium
11.
  The Money Multiplier Model
12.
  The IS-LM Model
13.
  Income Distribution
14.
  International Trade Subsidies
15.
  Excise Tax Cuts
16.
  The Leontief Input-Output Model
17.
  Commodity Price Stabilization
18.
  Externalities Case Study

Diomande, M. Ahmed
  "Why U.S. Financial Markets Need a Public Credit Rating Agency" (2009)
William Easterly
  "Congressional Budget Office - Budget and Economic Outlook: An Update " (August 2009)
William Easterly
  "Dismal Science" (2008)
William Faris
  "Starbucks vs. Ethiopia" (2008)
Paul Krugman
  "How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?" (2009)
Phillip LeBel
  "Countering The Global Recession" (2009, 2008)
John H. Makin
  "Three Lessons from the Financial Crisis" (2009)
N. Greg Mankiw
  "Raise the Gas Tax" (2007)
Myron Scholes
  "Risk Management Interview" (2008)
Robert Shiller
  "Unlearned Lessons from the Housing Bubble" (2009)
Randall Smith
  "Insider Trading: It Could Get Worse" (2007)
Mike Spector
  "Road Could Get Worse for Detroit" (2008)
Peter Wallison
  "Unnecessary Intervention: The Administration's Effort to Regulate Credit Default Swaps" (2009)
 

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