Econ 345: Money and Banking
Winter 2009-2010, Term 2

Instructor: Oleksiy Kryvtsov, Email: oleksiy@kryvtsov.com, Phone: 604-822-2748, Office: Buchanan Tower, 1008
Lecture: MWF, 15:00-16:00, Classroom: Buchanan building, B213, Office hours: M, 14:00-15:00

Syllabus (posted: Jan 5)

Schedule (updated: Apr 6)

 

Announcements

Posted final exam and answers

Current assignment

 

 

Class material

Lecture 1 (posted Jan 6)

Lecture 2 (posted Jan 6)

Lecture 3 (posted Jan 10)

Lecture 4 (posted Jan 12)  

Lecture 5 (posted Jan 13)

Lecture 6 (posted Jan 18)

Lecture 7 (posted Jan 18)

Lecture 8 (posted Jan 19)

Lecture 9 (posted Jan 22)

Lecture 10 (posted Jan 25) 

Lecture 11 (posted Jan 26)

Lecture 12 (posted Jan 29)

Lecture 13 (posted Jan 31)

Lecture 14 (posted Feb 3)

Lecture 15 (posted Feb 5)

Lecture 16 (posted Feb 8)

Lecture 17 (posted Feb 12)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lecture 18 (posted Mar 2)

Lecture 19 (posted Mar 5)

Lecture 20 (posted Mar 8)

Lecture 21 (posted Mar 10)

Lecture 22 (posted Mar 12)

Lecture 23 (posted Mar 14)

Lecture 24 (posted Mar 16)

Lecture 25 (posted Mar 19)

Lecture 26 (posted Mar 24)

Lecture 27 (posted Mar 24)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Homeworks

Homework 1 (posted Jan 12)    Answers (posted Jan 31)

Homework 2 (posted Jan 26)    Answers (posted Feb 5)

Midterm 1 material (posted Feb 5)

Homework 3 (posted Mar 2)     Answers (posted Mar 14)

Midterm 1 (posted Mar 10)       Answers (posted Mar 10)

Homework 4 (posted Mar 16)   Answers (posted Mar 27)

Midterm 2 material (posted Mar 27)

Midterm 2 (poseted Apr 6)       Answers (posted Apr 6)

Homework 5 (posted Apr 6)     Answers (posted Apr 16)

Final exam material (posted Apr 16)

Final (posted Apr 29)               Answers (posted Apr 29)

 

Individual projects

A History of the Canadian Dollar (presenter: Tom, Mar 26)

        slides  summary

LVTS (presenter: Allan, Mar 29)

        slides

Inflation Targeting (presenter: Ala, Apr 7)

       slides

Why Canada Needs a Flexible Exchange Rate (present: Yuri, Apr 9)

        slides

Monetary Policy Decisions (presenter: Kevin, Apr 12)

        slides

Monetary Policy in Canada (presenter: Ashar, Apr 14)

        slides

 

Links

Bank of Canada

Statistics Canada (Data Tables)

Adobe Acrobat Reader 9

Mark Carney's speech "Principles for Interesting Times" on Mar 11

        webcast

        Thomas Kuehn's summary and slides

Data

Money demand (posted Jan 19): time series for Lecture 4

Exchange rates (posted Jan 25): time series for Lecture 10

Nominal interest rate (posted Jan 31): time series for Lecture 13

Monetary aggregates (updated Mar 12): time series Lectures 19,22