Ruanjai Suwantaradon's Spring 2008 Teaching Page
Contact Information
Email: ruanjais@umn.edu
Office: 1136 Heller Hall
Office Phone : (612) 625-4842
Office Hours : Tu, Wed 9:30-10:30 a.m.
Econ 4721 - Money and Banking
Lecture Tu, Th 8:15-9:30 Blegen 220
Textbook: Modeling Monetary Economics by Bruce Champ and Scott Freeman, Cambridge University Press, 2001, 2nd edition.
Assignments
Homework 2 Part I and II Answer Key
Why Hong Kong Won't Dump the Dollar by BusinessWeek.com 6/12/07
Homework 4 Answer Key (NEW!)
Providing cover by Economist.com 4/21/08
Paulson: Change rules for Wall Street by CNNMoney.com 3/31/08
Treasury's Summary of Regulatory Proposal by nytimes.com 3/29/08
Notes
Review of Optimization Problems
How to Solve CE with Constant Money Supply
Midterm Exam Practice Questions Answer Key
Lec 4/15/08 Part I: U.S. Banking Industry (Mishkin Ch 10) Part II: Federal Reserve Actions to Promote Liquidity and Expand Policy Operations
Final Exam Review Notes (NEW!)
Final Exam Practice Questions: Part I (NEW!) Part II (NEW!)
Independent Readings
The Fed Press Release 1/22/08
Fed slashes key rate to 3.5% by CNNMoney.com 1/22/08
Aggressive easing by Economist.com 3/18/08
Are Bank Deposits Safe? by BusinessWeek.com 3/18/08
Northern Rock: Crisis at Northern Rock by BusinessWeek.com 9/14/07;
Grabbing the bank by Economist.com 2/18/08;
The N-word by Economist.com 2/19/08
Sovereign Credit Rating (NEW!): Should You Invest in These Countries? by BusinessWeek.com 10/06/06;
Fitch Ratings History 11/7/06 Rating Methodology
Current ratings by Fitch or Standard & Poor's
Exams
Midterm Exam: Thursday, March 13, in class (Blegen 220)
Final Exam: Wednesday, May 14, 10:30am-12:30pm, in Blegen 150 (Note the change of the exam room)
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)
News