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Andrew K. Rose: Teaching

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: March 3, 2008

I have taught macroeconomics, international finance and econometrics at Berkeley (final grades are available through Bearfacts).

At Haas, I am currently teaching the ever-popular (check out “Best Course”) core “Macroeconomics in the Global Economy” BA201b. In 1999 I won the Cheit Award as Teacher of the Year in the Haas MBA program (I was also a finalist in 1993, 1994, 1996, and 2001; check out my “All-Star” rating). 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. My ex-students pop up all over; sometimes via my family.

• BA201b (Global Macroeconomics) students can obtain the following:
• A PDF copy of the syllabus and course outline for the Haas Fulltime program for Spring 2008.
• A link to Catalyst.
• 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.
• PDF files which are summaries for the most important concepts of the course, organized into 16 parts.
• Problem Sets and Solutions
• 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.
• 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).
• Also of possible interest:
• A PDF copy of the syllabus and course outline for the Haas Fulltime program for Spring 2006.
• A PDF copy of the syllabus and course outline for the Haas Fulltime program for Spring 2004.
• A PDF copy of the syllabus and course outline for the Haas Evening program for Spring 2003.
• A PDF copy of the syllabus and course outline for the Haas Weekend program for Spring 2003.
• A PDF copy of the syllabus and course outline for the Berkeley-Columbia program of Fall 2002. Sample answers to the final exam are available on BOLD.
• A PDF copy of the most recent (Spring 2002) full-time course syllabus; this contains all the administrative information students need, as well as a course outline, and answers to all frequently asked questions. Adobe Reader is available for free.
• A link to Izio, where I maintained a class site for Haas students (problem sets and solutions were/are(?) posted here, along with other relevant materials).
• Advice on the class project and some titles of previous projects.

For my Ex-Economics Students:

• For Economics, in the Spring of 2002 I taught Economics 182 “International Monetary Economics”. A course syllabus is available; it includes answers to most questions about the course. Problem sets (and solutions) are available at a website maintained by J-P Stijns along with other course-related materials. Information on the mid-term is available, as are old exam questions for practice (with sample answers). Scores for the mid-term, bonus points, and problem sets are available as a PDF file, sorted by the last digits of your Student ID number. Summary statistics for the final exam are available.

Newspaper Subscriptions:

o You can subscribe to The Economist at student subscription rates; my “Faculty Registration ID number” is 1422 (please use it!).

o You can subscribe to The Financial Times at student subscription rates.

Haas Resources:

• A tutorial on Datastream available in the Bakar Computer Center
• A guide to other data available in the Long Library
• The California Digital Library

International Organizations:

• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank)
• International Finance Corporation (IFC)
• International Labour Organization (ILO)
• United Nations (UN)
• UNDP
• World Trade Organization (WTO)
• Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
• European Union (EU)
• Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
• Paris Club

Central Banks

• European Central Bank (ECB)
• US Federal Reserve (Fed) (with links to other central banks)
• Bank of Japan
• Two directories for Central Banks around the world

Research Institutions

• National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
• Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
• Institute for International Economics (IIE)
• International Economics Study Center
• Harvard's Institute for International Development (HIID)
• Penn’s Center for International Comparisons (Penn World Table)
• Economic Policy Institute

Commercial Bank Research

• Morgan Stanley’s Global Economic Forum
• Ed Yardeni’s Economics Network
• Bank of America Economic Research
• Bank of Montreal Research

News Organizations

• Economist
• Financial Times (FT)
• CBS MarketWatch
• CNN Financial Network
• Reuters
• Yahoo Finance
• Bloomberg

Some Classic Articles

• Meese and Rogoff JIE 1983 “Empirical Exchange Rate Models of the Seventies: Do They Fit Out of Sample?”
• Mundell AER 1961 “A Theory of Optimum Currency Areas”
• Mundell IMFSP 1962 “The Appropriate Use of Monetary and Fiscal Policy under Fixed Exchange Rates”
• Mundell CJEPS 1963 “Capital Mobility and Stabilization Policy under Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates”

Miscellaneous

• World Factbook (CIA)
• Foreign Labor Statistics (BLS)
• Information on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
• E-conflict World Encyclopedia
• Freedom House
• Polity IV
• Index of Economic Freedom
• Population.com
• Brittanica.com
• Paul Krugman’s Home Page
• Nouriel Roubini’s justly famous macro website
• Giancarlo Corsetti’s Euro website
• Chicago Mercantile Exchange (Futures Trading)
• Resources for Economists on the Internet
• Exchange Rate Information
• LDC Debt
• Worth Publishers (publishers of Mankiw's Macroeconomics)
• A primer on European Macroeconomics (with interactive models)
• Dismal Scientist
• Economy.com (economic reports, analysis and data)
• Freelunch.com (economic data, mostly American)
• Economagic (U.S. and some international data on the WEB)
• Janet Louise Yellen’s mysteriously similar website for her offering of BA201b