Week

Topic

Content and Reading Assignment

Teaching Activities and Homework

Student workload expectation

In-class Hours

Outside-of-class Hours

1 (9/15)

Introduction

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TBA

3.0

4.5

2 (9/22)

Understanding Interest Rates

Mishkin (Ch 4)

TBA

3.0

4.5

3 (9/29)

The Behavior of Interest Rates

Mishkin (Ch 5)

TBA

3.0

4.5

4 (10/6)

The Risk and Term Structure of Interest Rates

Mishkin (Ch 6)

TBA

3.0

4.5

5 (10/13)

National Income Accounting

and the Balance of Payments

KOM (Ch 13)

TBA

3.0

4.5

6 (10/20)

Exchange Rates and the

Foreign Exchange Market:

An Asset Approach

KOM (Ch 14)

TBA

3.0

4.5

7 (10/27)

Money, Interest Rates,

and Exchange Rates

KOM (Ch 15)

TBA

3.0

4.5

8 (11/3)

Money, Interest Rates,

and Exchange Rates

KOM (Ch 15)

TBA

3.0

4.5

9 (11/10)

Term paper outline

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-

3.0

4.5

10 (11/17)

Price Levels and the Exchange

Rate in the Long Run

KOM (Ch 16)

TBA

3.0

4.5

11 (11/24)

Price Levels and the Exchange

Rate in the Long Run

KOM (Ch 16)

TBA

3.0

4.5

12 (12/1)

Fixed Exchange Rates and Foreign Exchange Intervention

KOM (Ch 18)

TBA

3.0

4.5

13 (12/8)

Fixed Exchange Rates and Foreign Exchange Intervention

KOM (Ch 18)

TBA

3.0

4.5

14 (12/15)

Financial Crises and the

Subprime Meltdown

Mishkin (Ch 9)

TBA

3.0

4.5

15 (12/22)

Financial Crises and the

Subprime Meltdown

Mishkin  (Ch 9)

TBA

3.0

4.5

16 (12/29)

International Monetary Systems

KOM (Ch 19)

TBA

3.0

4.5

17 (1/5)

Financial Globalization

KOM (Ch 21)

TBA

3.0

4.5

18 (1/12)

Term paper due

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-

3.0

4.5