GS/ECON 5510 Winter 2012

GS/ECON 5510: International Monetary Economics - Winter 2012

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· Course Outline

· Lecture Schedule:

Tuesday and Thursday, 11:30am--1:00pm, CC108

· Instructor: Wai-Ming Ho

Office: 1046 Vari Hall

Telephone: (416) 736 2100 ext.22319

Email: waiming@yorku.ca

Office Hours: Monday 9:45am -11:00am and Thursday 1:30 pm - 3:15 pm

· Textbook:

Obstfeld, M. and K. Rogoff, Foundations of International Macroeconomics, MIT Press, 1996. (SCOTT-RESV HF 1359 O27 1996)

Reference:

Mark, N. C., International Macroeconomics and Finance: Theory and Econometric Methods, Blackwell Publishers, 2001. (SCOTT-RESV HG 3881 M3334 2001)

All the other reading materials included in the course outline can be downloaded via the links listed on our Course Outline.

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· Midterm Exam: February 14, 2012 (Tuesday) 11:30am - 12:45pm at ACW 106.

· Final Exam: April 9, 2012 (Monday) 9:00am - 12:00 noon at TEL 0006.

· Office Hours during exam period: April 4 (Wednesday) 10:30am-12:30pm

April 5 (Thursday) 1:30pm-3:30pm

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· Lecture Note 6 (skip pages 12 and 13)

· Exercise 1, answers

· Exercise 2, answers

· Exercise 3, answers

· Exercise 4, answers

· Exercise 5, answers

· Solution Manual of Obstfeld and Rogoff (1996), Foundations of International Macroeconomics

· Midterm Exam (Winter 2012), Answers

· Sample Exams: Midterm Exam (Winter 2011), Answers

Final Exam (Winter 2011), Answers

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· Useful Links

· Statistic Canada

Balance of Payments Accounts, Tables

· Bank of Canada, Rates and Statistics

· International Economic Trends published by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

· International Monetary Fund