Department of Economics
Economics 210C/Economics 236A: Macroeconomic History
Fall 2011
Lecture: Wednesday 10-12 p.m. in 597 Evans
Instructors:
Instructors:
- Professor Christina Romer
- E-mail: cromer@econ.berkeley.edu
- Office: 681 Evans
- Professor David Romer
- E-mail: dromer@econ.berkeley.edu
- Office: 679 Evans
- Christina Romer, Wednesday 1-3 p.m. in 681 Evans
- David Romer, Monday 1-2 p.m. and Wednesday 1-2 p.m. in 679 Evans
Course Information
- Overview and Requirements
- Syllabus
- Reader available at Copy Central on Bancroft
- Paper Requirement
Lectures
- Lecture 1: Overview of U.S. Macroeconomic History and Data (8/31/11)
- Lecture 2: The Effects of Monetary Changes: Narrative Evidence and Natural Experiments (9/7/11)
- Lecture 3: The Effects of Monetary Changes: Vector Autoregressions (9/14/11)
- Lecture 4: The Effects of Fiscal Changes: Government Spending (9/21/11)
- Lecture 5: The Effects of Fiscal Changes: Taxes and Fiscal Consolidations (9/28/11)
- Lecture 6: The Effects of Financial Crises (10/5/11)
- Lecture 7: The Effects of Credit Contractions (10/12/11)
- Lecture 8: Monetary Policy at the Zero Lower Bound (10/19/11)
- Lecture 9: The Effects of Quantitative Easing (10/26/11)
- Lecture 12: Deleveraging and Balance Sheet Effects (11/16/11)
- Lecture 13: The Determinants of Macroeconomic Policy (11/30/11)
- Lecture 14: The Determinants of Macroeconomic Policy: The Postwar Era (12/7/11)