Macroeconomic Theory II
University of Ottawa
ECO2143

ATTENTION: The class of Wednesday April 11 is cancelled.  A two-hour question-and-answer session will be held on Monday April 23rd 11h00-13h00 in room TBT323.  During this session, I wil solely answer questions.  I encourage students to send me their questions beforehand by email.  Note that no new material, nor any "hint" about the final exam, will be given during this session.  It is thus entirely optional.

OFFICE HOURS FOR FINAL EXAM:

• Wednesday April 18 14h00-16h00
• Monday April 23 15h00-16h00

• Textbook: Macroeconomics, Third Canadian Edition
  by Olivier Blanchard, David Johnson
• Tutorials: Fridays 14h30-16h00 room JJL140A (NB During tutorials, only assigned problems are solved.    No new material is considered. Hence, they are fully optional.  They are meant to help those who feel that they need further clarification from what they received from the solutions posted below.)
  

• Slides
• Chapter 14
• Chapter 15a
• Chapter15b
• Population_a
• Population_b
• Human Capital - 15.4
  
• Technology a (Chapter 16 including Appendix)
• Productivity
• Technology b
• Efficiency a
• Efficiency b
• Open Economy a
• Open Economy b (Chapter 17 excluding Appendix)
• Chapter 18: Expectations: The basic tools
• Financial Markets and Expectations: Chapter 19 including Appendix A (without the section on risk)
• There are no slides for chap 20. (Includes Appendix B only.)
  

• Solutions to 1st mid-term MCQ
• Solutions to 2nd mid-term MCQ - Solutions to long answers
• Solutions to final exam  graphic-final-exam2007.PDF

• Exercises:
• Set 1: 10 problems from class handout due Monday Jan 15
• Set 2: Chapter 14: #1 a to e, #2, #4; Chapter 15: #1, #2, #5 (due Monday Jan 22 at 10h00) (NB The exercise numbers correspond to the 3rd Edition of the textbook.)
• Set 3 (click to download) (due Monday Jan 29 at 10h00)
• NB No assignment due on Monday Feb 5 because of mid-term exam.
• NB No assignment due on Monday Feb 12 because of mid-term exam.
• Set 4 (click to download) (due Monday Feb 26 at 10h00)
• Set 5 (To prepare for 2nd mid-term only.  Not to be submitted.  Solutions will be posted by Wednesday.)
• Set 6 (due Wednesday March 21 at 8h30)
• Set 7: Chapter 18 problems 2, 3, 4 (except d), 5 and 7. (due Monday March 26)
• Set 8: Chapter 19 problems 2, 3, 5, and 6. (due Monday April 2)
• Set 9: Chapter 19 nos 7 and 8; Chapter 20 nos 2, 3 and 4. (Not to be handed back.  Solutions will be posted here.)
  

• Solutions to assigned exercises
• week 1
• week 2
• week 3
• set 4   chap 16 no 5
• set 5 accompanying graphic
• set 6
• set 7
• chap 19 nos 2, 3, 5
• chap 19 nos 6, 7, 8
• chap 20