Economics 3422

Summer II 2008

Professor Francis Ahking

 

 

 Contacting Professor Ahking:

Office:  Room 336, Mont. Building  Office Phone:  (860) 486-3026

Summer office hours:  MW: 10 - 11 a.m., 4:30 - 5:00 p.m., and by appointment

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Class syllabus (pdf)

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Important quiz and examination dates:

 

Quizzes:    1st quiz:  W, July 16                             Midterm examination: W, July 30

                2nd quiz:  W, July 23                              Final examination:  F, August 15

                3rd quiz:  W, August 2                                   

                4th quiz:  W, August 13                                   

               

Past quizzes and examinations (pdf)

   

Note that the past quizzes and examinations are based on an earlier edition of the text (4/e).  All references and page numbers refer to that edition.  Example quizzes and examinations are based on a regular semester length course, thus there are six quizzes instead of four, as in the summer session.  They are included here to give you an idea of what to expect from quizzes and examinations.  They do not necessary correspond to the materials we are currently covering in class.

| Quiz 1 | Quiz 2 | Quiz 3 | Quiz 4 | Quiz 5 | Quiz 6 |

| Midterm examination | Final examination | Solution to final examination: sections A and B; C |

Readings: | Currency Competition | Mundell-Fleming Model | Example of a Numerical Solution to an income-expenditure model |

               |  Demand and Supply in the Foreign Exchange Market | Sovereign Wealth Funds |

U.S. Balance of Payments, 1946 - 2005 (Excel)

The Big Mac Index


Useful sites for the course:

[Student's section of text publisher's site] ●[Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System] [Bureau of Labor Statistics]

[U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis] [International Monetary Fund]

 

Other interesting sites:

 

[Starting salary for 2007 college graduate including economics major] [Department of Economics, University of Connecticut]

 

Last updated on 7/6/2008