Economics 2: Principles of Macroeconomics Winter 2008

Reqular postings for Economics 2, Winter 2008 will be made at this site.

Professor Carl Walsh

Office Hours: TuTh 1-2pm, or by appointment.

Office: 467 E2

Phone: 459-4082; email: walshc@ucsc.edu

Announcements:

Links to answers for exams and problems sets have been removed.

Grading curve for the tests can be found in the lecture notes for March 14th.

See the slides from the March 5th lecture for the grading scale on tests 1-3.

There are some good slides on the open and small open economy now available below.

If you have had problems logging onto SmartWorks, the following information may be relevant: "The way the registration process for SmartWork works is a two step process. When students initially sign in they are asked for the enrollment key. For your course, this is "STIGLITZWALSH4" that you provided. After two weeks, if the student has not done so by clicking the 'fully enroll' link in the upper right corner, the system will ask for the registration code from the text book. This grace period is allowed to accommodate the add/drop period of most courses. So, I believe this is what the students are encountering. I logged into your course and saw that a hand full of your students had fully registered and most had not. What the system is asking for is the registration key from the students' text not the enrollment key."

Problem sets:

Problem set 1. Answers to problem set 1; Spreadsheet used to answer question 7.

Problem set 2. Answers

Problem set 3. Answers

Problem set 4. Answers.

Problem set 5. Answers.

Old tests and review questions

Answers to the final exam.

Study questions for the final exam. Ignore any questions involving the SRIA curve as we did not cover it this year.

An old final exam with answers. Ignore any questions involving the SRIA curve as we did not cover it this year.

Answers to Test 4, Questions 1-8

Study questions for test 4

Answers to Test 3, Questions 1-10

Study questions for test 3: Answers to Test 3 study questions

Answers to Test 2, Questions 1-7

Study questions for test 2

Clarifying notes for question 7 of Test 1

Answers to Test 1, Questions 1-10

Review questions for test 1, W08

First test from Spring 2005; Note that this year the course has been reorganized so that we have not covered the material on comparative advantage that appears on this old test.