Thursday, October 28, 2010

THURS OCT 28TH CLASS CANCELED

THURS OCT 28TH CLASS CANCELED
Both Econ 215 (8:00 - 9:15) and Econ 1010 (9:25-10:40) are cenceled today, Oct 28th. See you next Tuesday.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Data sets for dissertation

Fed state level data

http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/publications/allbkstat/

Mason and Calomiris:


FDIC member bank data:

Brief explanation of housing in NIPA:

http://www.michaelcarliner.com/HE0110-Hous-GDP.pdf

Monday, October 4, 2010

Required Assginment: "How Four Drinking Buddies Saved Brazil"

REQUIRED

Since I think this podcast about inflation in Brazil is more likely to make an impression on you than my lectures I am assigning it as a required text. There will be a question on the midterm.

You can listen to it here: Planet Money.

Or you can get it from ITunes (it is free).