NS3040 Class Presentations Fall Quarter 2016

Chart of the Day

• Chart of the Day

Second Class

• Introductory Video on Why International Trade and Investment Are Good for the US Economy: A Story in Eight Charts

• Basic Microeconomic Tools

• Ed. Dolan Elasticy in Afghanistan

• Ed. Dolan Opportunity Costs

• The Minimum Wage

• Video WSJ on the Minimum Wage: The Young and the Unemployed , January 6, 2016

• Video WSJ on the Minimum Wage: Killing Jobs in California, March 30, 2016

• Video WSJ Greg Ip, Wages and Productivity, May 2015

Third Class

• Additional Microeconomic Tools -- Budget Optimization

• Ed Dolan, Consumer/Producer Surplus, January 2015

• Models of Competition

• Ed Dolan, Diamonds: How to Price a Finite Resource, April 26, 2010, 2010 (monopoly example)

• Ed Dolan, China's Fragile Rare Earth Monopoly, October 23, 2010 (oligopoly example)

• Commodity Prices: Trends, Super-Cycles, and Short-Run Spikes and Busts

• Ed Dolan, Does Peak Phosphate Spell Doom for Humanity or Will supply and Demand Save Us? July 30, 2013

Fourth Class

• Market Failures/Cost Benefit Analysis

• Ed Dolan, Soda Taxes, April 13, 2010

• Examples Market Imperfections

• Price Theory Applications

Optional Illustrations of Market Equilibriums

• Ed Dolan, Chocolate Lovers Keep Nervous Watch on Volatile Cocoa Prices, October 10, 2010

• Ed Dolan, Why is Oilive Oil, Good for the Body, Getting Hard on the Pocket Book?, February 4, 2013, 2010

• Ed Dolan, The Economics of Legal Marijuana Markets, July 9, 2014

• Ed Dolan, Why Really Pays Taxes? The Question of Tax Incidence, June 21, 2014

• Ed Dolan, The Opportunity Cost of Driving, December 29, 2014

• Ed Dolan, Will Fracking Enrich India's guar Farmers, July 30, 2012

• Ed Dolan, Does Peak Phosphate Spell Doom for Humanity or Will supply and Demand Save Us? July 30, 2013

• Ed Dolan, Move Over Ethanol, Market Forces Favor CNG, March 16, 2011

• Ed Dolan, Technology, Environment and The Future of Natural Gas, February 24, 2010

• Ed Dolan, Almond Prices, November 12, 2013

• Ed Dolan, Blood Markets, September 15, 2014

International Trade, MW Section October 12/17, TuTh Section October 11/13

SECOND PART OF CLASS

Balance of Payments/Exchange Rates --- TuTH November 8/10, MW November 9/14

• Balance of Payments

• Balance of Payments and Exchange Rates (video)

• Exchange Rates and Links to the Macro-economy (video)

• Alan Blinder on Trade Deficits

• The U.S. Current Account Balance

• Exchange Rates

• IMF and the Yuan WSJ, December 2015 (Video)

• Currency Wars (video) WSJ, January 16, 2015 Swiss Frank

• TPP and Currency Manipulation (Video)

• U.S. Treasury Reporting on Foreign Exchange Rate Policies, November 2016

• Ed Dolan, Inflation and the Yuan

• Ed Dolan, Real and Nominal Exchange Rates (Russia) December 2014

• Chinese Currency Movements in Late-February 2014

• Ed Dolan, The Curse of Riches: Resource Wealth and Social Progress, April 23, 2014 -- workings of the Dutch Disease

National Income Accounts/GDP TuTh November 17, MW November 16

• Global Slowdown Causes and Effects, November 2015 Peterson Institute (video)

• GDP Issues

• The Shadow Economy

• Ed Dolan, U.S. February 2015 Jobs Report

• Ed Dolan, Misery Index, February 2015

• Ed Dolan, U.S. GDP, February 2015

• Ed Dolan, Eurozone Deflation, October 2014

• Ed Dolan, U.S. Inflation, July 2014

• GDP Comparisons

Macroeconomic Approaches -- TuTh November 22; MW November 21

• Macroeconomic Theory: The Keynesian/Monetarist Debates

• How Keynes Killed the Japanese Economy, WSJ, November 17, 2014

• Japan's economic dilemmas (video) 2016

• Japan's Economic Outlook Not as Dreary as Advertised WSJ October 2015

• The Austrian School

• Stossel on Keynes (video)

• Judge Napalitano on Austerity (video)

• Ed Dolan, What Ever Happened to the Philipps Curve, May 12, 2014

• U.S. Fiscal Policy

• Macroeconomic Contradictions in D. Trump's Economic Policy

• David Wessel, the U.S. Public Debt (video, August 2014)

• George Ip, Good News on the Debt, WSJ February 5 2016 (video)

• Richard Haass, The Strategic Implications of U.S. Debt, Congressional Testimony, April 6, 2016

• Puerto Rico's Debt Crisis

• Is the us on a 2% growth path? November 2015 (video)

• Ed Dolan, U.S. Budget Deal, December 2013

• The Federal Reserve

• Monetary Policy Consensus

• Ed Dolan QE (Quantitative Easing) Revisited

• Fed Communications, October 2015 (video)

• Risks Facing the Fed, November 2015 (video)

• Problems at the Fed WSJ December 17, 2015 (Sharma video)

• Transatlantic Policy Divergence, Financial Times, November 2015 (video)

• U.S. Recession Risks, November 16, 2015 (video)

International Monetary System -- TuTh, November 29; MW, November 28

• Historical International Monetary Systems

• Bretton-Woods II

• China in the SDR in 60 seconds

• IMF Announcement of China in the SDR

• Shoud we go back to the Gold Standard?, WSJ November 2015

• Global Capital Flows

• Ed Dolan, Fixed vs. Flexible Exchange Rates, Lativa vs. Czech Republic

• Ed Dolan, Latin America and the Impossible Trinity

• Ed Dolan, Why Hasn't the U.S. Become Another Greece? 2013

• Greek Debt Crisis -- just slides 45-56

• Negative Interest Rates WSJ April 2016

• What the Heck are Negative Rates CNN Rates WSJ April 2016

Global Financial Institutions -- TuTh, November 29; MW, November 28

• IMF

• The IMF in Jamaica

• The Washington Consensus

Current Crisis -- MW December 5/7; TuTh December 6/8

• Rand, Adjusting to Global Change

• Origins and Initial Years of The Global Economic Crisis

• Martin Wolf, Lessons From the Crisis, Financial Times, September 3, 2014 (video)

• Martin Wolf on Globalization September 7, 2016 (video)

• Martin Wolf on China's Capital Controls, January 2016 (video)

• The Global Economy Fall 2016

• Brexit Problems (video)

• Secular Stagnation

• Long-Run U.S. Productivity Issues

• Geo-economics

• Backlash Against Globalization

• The Future of Global Governance
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