Contact Information:

• Syllabus
• Economic Tutoring  - OEC 415 - (962- 5691)

• Homework
• Homework #1; Answer Key #1
• Homework #2; Answer Key #2       
  
•  (Interpretation of Economic Indicators)
  
• Homework #3
• Homework #4; Answer Key #4
• Homework #5; Answer Key #5
  
• Homework #6; Answer Key #6

• How to Personalize the WSJ Web Page (assuming you have a subscription)
  

• Full article on Zimbabwe's hyperinflation problems discussed in lecture on 10/6/08 (optinal reading)
  
• Another article on Zimbabwe's hyperinflation and how the government has become bankrupted 2/7/07  (optinal reading)

• Blank Exams
• Exam 1 - 9:35, 10:55
• Exam 2 - 9:35, 10:55

• Additional Readings Required for Exams
• Download readings for exam 
  

• International Assignment
  
• download document containing information on the project.
• International Information
• University of St. Thomas's Library resources to international economic data
• e.g., Offstats and International Financial Statistics  (See assignment for instructions on how to use International Financial Statistics.)
  
• CIA World Factbook
  
• University of St. Thomas's Library Search Engines
  
• BBC Country Profiles - site gives information on how free the press is
  
• The Heritage Foundation - 2008 Index of Economic Freedoms
• provides information on property rights, banking institutions, and trade policy
• World Bank: Data and Statistics (e.g., poverty and social indicators, education, information and communication technologies)
  
• The Economist Website  (access to articles is limited; good search engine)
• The Economist Country Briefings - free and full access to briefings
• download Economist articles from UST library - click on SHOW ALL (at the top of the listings) and then click on Factiva (3/4 down the page and follow the directions I gave you on the assignment to search through Factiva.)
• International Monetary Fund. World Economic Outlook Database 
  
• Illustration on how to use the MLA Style to Document Sources

• FOMC Simulation (December)

• Interested in Economics?  Students often ask me what can they do with an Economics degree and what is the difference between a minor, a B.A. and B.S. in Economics.  Click here for answers to these questions.
  

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Macro-related web sites
1. Macro Data

• Bureau of Economic Analysis - information on national income accounts and regional economic data
• Bureau of Labor and Statistics (e.g., unemployment, cpi, productivity)
• Conference Board’s index of leading economic indicators for the U.S.
• Dismal.com
• Provides information on 80 economic indicators for 15 countries. (Subscription needed.)
  
• For each indicator, in the upper-left-hand corner click on definition for a description of the indicator and what it tracks.
• EconoMagic - wide variety of economic information; also includes links to central banks of other countries
• Economic and Financial Conditions - domestic and international (N.Y. Fed)
• economic data releases
• Economic Report to the President (See tables.)
• Provides information on various economic indicators.
• Economic Statistics Briefing Room (White House)
• Economic Time Series Database (St. Louis Fed)
• monetary agg., reserves, interest rates, exchange rates, trade data, gdp and its components
• index of all series on St. Louis Fed website
• Resources for Economists
• US Macro and Regional Data
• Other US Economic Data
  
• World and Non-US Data
  

• The Wall Street Journal
  
• The Economist 
• CNN Fincancial / CNN

 
3. Monetary Policy  (Links to Updated)
 
• Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
click on monetary policy to get transcripts of past FOMC meetings,
a printout of the Beige Book, and a copy of the Monetary Policy Report to the Congress
• The Twelve Federal Reserve Districts (with links to each bank)
• An insider's description of a typical FOMC meeting - optional reading
• How does the Fed change the Federal Funds rate?
• Current Members of the FOMC
• Federal Reserve History
• United States Monetary Policy

   

            4. Economic Think Tanks
 
• Economic Policy Institute - labor, public policy, globalization
• Urban Institute - labor, public policy, real estate, poverty
• List of economic think tanks in the US
• Brookings Institution