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Professor: Dr. Robert J. Barbera Office Hours: TBA E-mail: robert.barbera@ITG.com Office Telephone #: 914-312-2390 Office Fax: 914-312-2493
Teaching Assistant: Julia Driessen Office Hours: Monday, 11am-12pm; Tuesday, 8:30am-9:30am, Mergenthaler 466 E-mail: jdrie85@yahoo.com Telephone #: 443-310-5806 Course Objectives: 1. To attain a
rigorous understanding of 2. To become familiar with the pattern of economic news and the shaping and reshaping of the consensus economic view. 3. To come to appreciate the interplay between long-term trends, economic policies, financial market fluctuations, and exogenous shocks. 4. To learn techniques for Separating Signal from Noise and the Risks/Rewards Inherent in Thinking and Forecasting Outside the Box. Downloads: Appendix By Sheriff Khalifa -Lecture 8 & 9 Is
There A Core of Practical Macro That We Should All Believe? Blinder, AEA The Yield Curve and Predicting Recessions,
Wright, FRB, 2006 Four Out of Four Indicators
Are In Recession Territory, Ergo…, Barbera,
01/01 Behavioral Macroeconomics and
Macroeconomic Behavior, Akerlof The Missing Motivation in
Macroeconomics, Akerlof,
AEA address, 2007 Short-Run Fluctuations, David Romer, Berkley,
8/02 Boom, Gloom, And Excess, Barbera, International
Economy, 2004 The Economy According To
Joyce, Barbera,
Wall Street Journal 1992 Did Giambastista
Vico Forecast 9/11?,
Barbera It Just Happened Again, R.J. Barbera, Paul DeRosa, Minsky Conference A Minsky/Wicksell Modified Taylor Rule |
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