Andrew K. Rose: Global Macroeconomics (BA201b) Resources

Bernard T. Rocca Jr. Professor of International Business
Economic Analysis and Policy

URL: http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/arose

Haas School of Business

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA 94720-1900

Telephone: 510-642-6609

Facsimile: 510-642-4700

E-mail: arose@haas.berkeley.edu

Last updated: Mar 21, 2013

International Macro Rocks! For other teaching materials and links, please use my teaching page.

I currently teach core “Macroeconomics in the Global Economy” BA201b (check out “Best Course”). In 1999 and 2012, I won the Cheit Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Haas MBA program (I was also a finalist in 1993, 1994, 1996, 2001, and 2008). I have inspired haiku while teaching the neoclassical growth model (and another while teaching the business cycle model), and also an in-class Bingo game.

Please help me improve the information provided here! You get an automatic bonus point for suggesting a significant improvement (pointing out "link-rot" doesn't count), or being the first to find something important that’s omitted or in error on this website (or the course syllabus/outline) .

Current Global Macroeconomics students can obtain the following:

Summaries of Key Concepts
Problem Sets and Solutions
A PDF copy of the syllabus and course outline for the Evening MBA program for Spring 2013. Streaming videos of some classes are available here.
A link to bSpace.
A link to Study.Net.
A link to Bear Facts (grades, etc.).
My more recent Teaching Instructor Evaluation Service (TIES) ratings are available in a graphical format, but only to those in the Haas domain. In 2000, I taught sections at 8:00 and 9:30; ditto for 2001 (8:00 and 9:30 sections); and finally for 2002 (8:00 and 9:30). I also taught the Berkeley-Columbia macro class in Fall 2002. In Spring 2003 I taught the Monday and Tuesday Evening program, and one section of the weekend program. In Spring 2004, I taught the entire daytime core, sections 1, 2, 3, and 4. In Spring 2006, I again taught the entire daytime core, sections 1, 2, 3, and 4. Once more in Spring 2008, I taught the entire daytime core, sections 1, 2, 3, and 4. In the Fall of 2008, I taught the Berkeley-Columbia core. In the Spring of 2010, I taught sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the fulltime MBA program. In the Fall of 2010, I taught the Berkeley-Columbia core. In the Fall of 2011, I also taught the Berkeley-Columbia core.
Information on my 1997 cold-calling patterns (useful only for historic study), reprinted from HaasWeek May 1997 and 1998. The patterns updated through 1999 are also available (again courtesy of Haasweek).
A link to the website for Mankiw’s Macroeconomics.
Information for my case on the 1992 European Currency Crisis (available from South-Western’s CaseNet).
- A short video on "Black Wednesday" is available on YouTube.
Information for the case by Alvarez and Zeldes on the Argentina Stabilization of 1991.
Optional Problem Set Exercises are available, organized by topic.
A link to Gapminder.
A link to the Council on Foreign Relation's website on the 2008 Financial Crisis.
A link to enable you to subscribe to The Economist at student subscription rates; my “Faculty Registration ID number” is 1422 (please use it!).
A link to enable you to The Financial Times
More reading on: international reserve diversification; monetary policy and asset price bubbles; the World Economic Outlook; the Japanese economy; the American economy.
The justifiably famous CBS video “Every Breath You Take” (worth seeing if you haven’t).

Summaries and Key Concepts

I organize the course into a number of different topics, and have prepared short summaries for each. The relevant chapters in Mankiw (7^th edition) are given in parentheses; short PDF files that summarize the key concepts are available for each topic. You can use these in advance of the class, in class, or for review (I tend not to use overhead projections). Note that some of these files contain extra material that may not be used in class. If you find an error in one and let me know, you get an automatic bonus point.

There’s a file of introductory material.

1. Key Concepts and Critical Distinctions (1,2)