Welcome to EC 103—002: Introduction to Macroeconomics!
Fall 2022 - Marcio Santetti - Economics Department, Skidmore College
Note: Slides and assignment files created with the xaringan R package, with templates mainly inspired by Ed Rubin's CSS file.
Several lecture notes have also benefitted from JW Mason's excellent Macro teaching materials.
Lecture 1: What are we doing here?
Lecture 2: All things "capitalism," pt. I
Lecture 3: All things "capitalism," pt. II
Lecture 4: The macroeconomic perspective
Lecture 5: GDP: Different shapes and forms
Lecture 6: Economic growth
Lecture 7: Economic growth discussions
Lecture 8: Unemployment: Basic definitions
Lecture 9: Unemployment: Relationships
Lecture 10: Inflation: Introduction
Lecture 11: Inflation vs. Unemployment
Lecture 12: Inflation & monetary policy
Lecture 13: Exchange rates
Lecture 14: Balance of payments
Lecture 15: Aggregate expenditures
Lecture 16: Equilibrium and the basic multiplier
Lecture 17: Government expenditures and fiscal policy
Lecture 18: Money supply and multiplier effects
Lecture 19: Money demand and interest rates
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Lecture 20: Open-economy macro
Final Week: Long Assignment 3 Q&A
- Instructions for the Final Exam Day:
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Note: Lab session slides created using Quarto, with templates mainly inspired by Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel's SCSS file.
Lab 1: Introduction to R, RStudio, and the tidyverse
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Lab 2: Manipulating data in the tidyverse
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Lab 3: Computing economic aggregates in the tidyverse
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Lab 4: The "grammar of graphics"
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Lab 5: Making plots informative
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Lab 6: Customizing and saving plots
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Lab 7: Dealing with dates
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Lab 8: Variable classes
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Lab 9: Beautiful tables with {gt}
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Lab 10: Navigating Long Assignment 3
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Lab 11: Interactive plots with {plotly}
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Problem Set 1(due 10/10, before class) | submission throughtheSpring -
Problem Set 2(due 10/31, before class) | submission throughtheSpring- Data set:
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Problem Set 3(due 11/21, before class) | submission throughtheSpring -
Problem Set 4(due 12/05, before class) | submission throughtheSpring
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Long Assignment 1(due 09/26, before class) | submission throughtheSpring -
Long Assignment 2(due 11/07, before class) | submission throughtheSpring- Data file:
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Long Assignment 3(due 12/09, 10 PM) | submission throughtheSpring- Instructions for the Final Exam Day:
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