Week

Topic

Content and Reading Assignment

1 (2/20)

Introduction

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2 (2/27)

Understanding Interest Rates

Mishkin (Ch 4)

3 (3/6)

The Behavior of Interest Rates

Mishkin (Ch 5)

4 (3/13)

The Risk and Term Structure of Interest Rates

Mishkin (Ch 6)

5 (3/20)

National Income Accounting and the Balance of Payments

KOM (Ch 13)

6 (3/27)

Exchange Rates and the Foreign Exchange Market: An Asset Approach

KOM (Ch 14)

  7 (4/3)

Spring Break (No class)

8 (4/10)

Money, Interest Rates, and Exchange Rates

KOM (Ch 15)

9 (4/17)

Midterm week (Term paper reference due)

Money, Interest Rates, and Exchange Rates

KOM (Ch 15)

10 (4/24)

Price Levels and the Exchange Rate in the Long Run 

KOM (Ch 16)

11 (5/1)

Price Levels and the Exchange Rate in the Long Run 

KOM (Ch 16)

12 (5/8)

Fixed Exchange Rates and Foreign Exchange Intervention

KOM (Ch 18)

13 (5/15)

Fixed Exchange Rates and Foreign Exchange Intervention

KOM (Ch 18)

14 (5/22)

International Monetary Systems

KOM (Ch 19)

15 (5/29)

International Monetary Systems

KOM (Ch 19)

16 (6/5)

Financial Globalization

KOM (Ch 20)

17 (6/12)

Flexible learning week (Term paper due)

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18 (6/18)

Flexible learning week

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