Online Text and Notes in Intermediate Macroeconomics

This course webpage supports a course on intermediate macroeconomics as taught by G. Vernasca and K. Burdett at the University of Essex in 2009/10, based on Mankiw's Macroeconomics (2006), 6th ed.. It includes a course outline, lecture notes, assignments and problem sets with solutions.

This set of eleven slide shows makes heavy use of animation and algebra to illustrate core topics in intermediate macroeconomics. They have been produced as part of an Economics Network mini-project, which has polished the presentation to a high standard. There are explanatory text callouts throughout, enabling the files to be used as self-contained learning objects for student revision. The Solow Growth Model is dealt with at length, with three separate animated shows covering different variations of the model. Each slide show is available as dark-on-white or as light-on-black.

The Nobel Foundation makes available a great deal of material on each of the Economics prize winners, including video of each Prize Lecture since Robert Mundell in 1999. As well as a lay introduction to each prize winner's research, there are "Advanced information" links giving a more technical explanation. This link is to the Economics Network's quick index of lecture videos and related materials on the site. Each video is a full lecture (usually between 40 and 60 minutes) with good audio and video quality, and pitched at a non-technical audience. Transcripts of each lecture are available.

Carlin and Soskice have developed "a version of the 3-equation model that can be taught to undergraduate students and can be deployed to analyze a broad range of policy issues, including the recent credit/banking crisis and the oil and commodities price shock. It can be taught using diagrams and minimal algebra" in this 26 page paper from UCL. It also includes an appendix on the central bank’s loss function: graphical representation and references for further reading.

This support site for a 2003/4 course has detailed lecture notes and some problem sets. Topics include "The Solow Model," "The Overlapping Generations Model" and "New Keynesian Macroeconomics". All links are to PDF files. This link is to Archive.org's copy of the site.

This support page for Brad DeLong's intermediate macroeconomics textbook has some manuscripts, proofs and appendices available in PDF as well as errata. It includes material on growth theory, flexible-price macroeconomics, sticky-price macroeconomics and macroeconomic policy.

FreeVideoLectures brings together videos of economics courses from Universities such as Yale and Berkeley, as well as online providers like the Khan Academy. They are arranged by topics, including: international economics, trade, game theory, history of economic thought and economic demography. Items are listed by course enabling students to work through a course chronologically.

Handouts from all 26 sessions of a spring 2003 course are archived here. The stated goal of the course is, "to introduce you to the role of government in markets where competitive equilibria 'fail.' ... We will examine the behavior of individual markets in some detail, focusing on cost analysis, the determinants of market demand, investment behavior, market power, and the implications of government regulatory behavior." It was taught by Michael Pollitt of MIT.

Impressive, very large site on history of economic thought, including a long alphabetical list of historical economists with profiles and further links to original documents on the same server. You can also browse by school of thought - Pre-Classical, Anglo-American, Heterodox Themes, Classical, Continental, and Keynesian. You can examine the same material by theme: there are impressive documents in the categories of Business Cycle Theory, Empirics and Econometrics, Imperfect Competition, Economic Development, Uncertainty and Information, Game Theory and Finance Theory and includes weblinks and references. It is hosted at the graduate faculty of economics of the New School University New York

Industrial Economics is a course webpage produced by Johan Lagerhof of Royal Holloway, University of London. It includes lecture notes, seminar questions and answers on industrial economic and organisation. Includes theories of monopoly, duopoly and oligopoly; competition policy (UK and US); entry deterrence; product differentiation; mergers. Linked to Industrial Economics lectures with core texts: J Church and R Ware 'Industrial Organization' (McGraw-Hill 2000) and M Motta 'Competition Policy' (Cambridge University Press 2004).

Industrial organization: a strategic approach is an online version of a text book written by Canadian economists Jeffrey Church and Roger Ware, in 2000. This intermediate level text on industrial economics covers, monopolies, oligopoly pricing, strategic behaviour, issues in antitrust economics and issues in regulatory economics. It is available as a single PDF download of over 1000 pages.

Intermediate Macro theory is the course page for this ECON101 course taught by Paul Bergin of UC Davis in Fall 2007. It includes slide presentations, with short notes, full lecture notes, homework assignments and exam papers. It covers introductory definitions and main topics in macroeconomics including national income determination, inflation, fiscal and monetary policy. The course is based around Mankiw's Economics - 6th edition.

Presents a new, causal representation of macroeconomic models as graphs which enable explanation, interpretation and analysis. The method is explained and illustrated with examples of static and dynamic models. There are freely downloadable chapters from the book "Macroeconomic Models in a Causal Framework" by Geoffrey J. Wyatt, En Exempla Books, Edinburgh 2005 (ISBN 0954620216) and a freely accessible Java program for flowgraph modelling in a web-page.

Detailed notes from seven lectures of a graduate-level course are downloadable separately or as a single file. The topics from this Spring 2003 course include Solow and Neoclassical growth model, the Overlapping Generations model and endogenous growth. All materials are available as PDF files, with links to the course website that provides accompanying materials.

This site uses the EconModel software (requiring an individual subscription or site licence) to present interactive models along with brief notes, graphs and some printable worksheets. The main content of the site is in three sections: "Classical Models - The Role of Aggregate Supply", "Keynesian Models - The Role of Aggregate Demand" and a historical section. Preview movies show how to use the interactive features of the software.

Between four and ten questions with answers for each chapter of Mankiw's textbook Economics. While the site presents these as essay questions, the sample answers provided are no longer than a paragraph, so are probably better described as short answer questions.

Supply-Side University offers weekly lessons, single-topic essays, book recommendations and longer essays aimed at those who want to understand the supply-side approach to the economy. The site was active from 1999-2006 and an archive of all the material from this time is available.

The Transformaton of macroeconomic policy and research is Prescott's 2004 Nobel Prize lecture. It sets out the method and significance of micro-founded, forward-looking, dynamic-equilibrium models as originated by Kydland, Prescott, Lucas and others, and widely adopted as cheap computing power becomes available. Assess the impact on use of macro models for policymaking, with particular attention to time consistency and credible commitment. It is complemented by the shorter, more empirical 'Quantitative Aggregate Theory' by co-laureate Finn Kydland, available from the same site. Both in video as well as text form.

This is a support website for the teaching of Wei-Choun Yu, Assistant Professor of Economics at Winona State University. It contains teaching materials for Macroeconomics, International Economics and Forecasting Methods. The individual course pages include syllabi, assignments, lecture slides and other materials. Each course page also includes brief links to external Internet sites.