Spring 2012, Econ 353 – Money and Banking

Syllabus

List of Topics and Lecture slides:

1. Overview of the financial system: Chap 2 completed chap 2 slides

2. What is money? Chap 3 completed chap 3 slides

3. Understanding interest Rates: Chap 4

4. The behavior of interest rates: Chap 5

5. The risk and term structure of interest rates: Chap 6

6. Understanding stock prices: Chap 7

7. Asymmetric information, financial intermediation, basic banking: Chaps 8 and 10

8. The Federal Reserve System and the money supply process: Chaps 13-14

HW Problem Sets

useful formulas

HW and Exam Answer keys

Quiz 1 answers

Review materials

Chaps 2 and 3 review (with answers)

Chap 4 review

Exam scores

Practice multiple choice questions

Click on the following links to go the companion website for the 8^th edition of the book and do the multiple choice quiz posted for practice.