Ruanjai Suwantaradon's Fall 2006 Teaching Page
Contact Information
Email: ruanjais@econ.umn.edu
Office: 1136 Heller Hall
Office Phone : (612) 625-4842
Office Hours : Monday 11:10-12:10 and Tuesday 10:00-11:00
Econ 4721 - Money and Banking
Lecture MWF 10:10 – 11:00 Blegen 230
Textbook: Modeling Monetary Economics by Bruce Champ and Scott Freeman, Cambridge University Press, 2001, 2nd edition.
Assignments
Notes
How to Solve CE with Constant Money Supply
Example for Chapter 4 - International Monetary Systems
Answers to Some Questions on Midterm Practice
Independent Readings
Person-to-Person Lending: High return but risky?
Reserve requirements in the U.S.
Milton Friedman: An Enduring Legacy
Friedman, a Giant Among Economist
Episodes of Systemic and Borderline Financial Crises
Deposit Insurance Around the World
Open Market Operations in the 1990s
Should You Invest in These Countries?
Sovereign Ratings by Standard & Poor's
Exams
Midterm Exam: Monday, October 30th, in class.
Final Exam: Monday, December 18th, 1:30pm-3:30pm, in the regular classroom (Blegen 230)
Links
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
The Federal Reserve System for a quick review of how the Fed operates.
The Federal Reserve Board's Press Releases for current monetary policy.
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for data on unemployment rate and inflation rate in the U.S.
Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) for the most up-to-date U.S. economic data
Economic Report of the President
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis for publications by the Federal Reserve Bank's economists
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) for many working economic papers.
International
International Financial Statistics-online on the U library website for statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance from more than 200 IMF countries.
Global Financial Dataon the U library website for historical and current financial and economic data for 150 countries.
x-rates.com for data on exchange rates
IMF - International Monetary Fund
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Trade Disputes by Country at WTO
UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development)
WebEc World Wide Web Resources in Economics
United Nations (Trade Statistics by Commodity)