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Old Midterms and Finals
Contact Information
Answers to Questions & Problems in Textbook
Lecture Slides

Old Midterms and Finals:

The following are available for downloading/printing:

Final, Questions and Solutions, Fall 2007

Midterm 2, Questions and Solutions, Fall 2007

Midterm 1, Questions and Solutions, Fall 2007

Final, Questions and Solutions, Fall 2006

Midterm 2, Questions and Solutions, Fall 2006

Midterm 1, Questions and Solutions, Fall 2006

Final, Questions and Solutions, Fall 2005

Midterm 2, Questions and Solutions, Fall 2005

Midterm 1, Questions and Solutions, Fall 2005

Final, Questions and Solutions, Fall 2004

Midterm 2, Questions and Solutions, Fall 2004

Midterm 1, Questions and Solutions, Fall 2004

Final, Questions and Solutions, Fall 2003

Midterm 2, Questions and Solutions, Fall 2003

Midterm 1, Questions and Solutions, Fall 2003

Final, Questions and Solutions, Fall 2002

Midterm 2, Questions and Solutions, Fall 2002

Midterm 1, Questions and Solutions, Fall 2002

Final, Questions, Fall 2001

Midterm, Questions and Solutions, Fall 2001

Final, Questions, Winter 2000

Midterm, Questions and Solutions, Winter 2000

Midterm, Questions and Solutions, Fall 2000

Final, Essay Questions, Spring 1999

Final, Questions and Solutions (Part B only), Spring 1999

Midterm, Questions, Spring 1999

Final, Questions Part A , Questions Part B & C, and Solutions, Fall 1999

Midterm, Questions and Solutions, Fall 1999

Final, Questions, Spring 1998

Midterm, Questions Part A (Multiple Choice Questions) and Solutions, Spring 1998

Final, Questions and Solutions, Fall 1998

Midterm, Questions and Solutions, Fall 1998

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Contact Information:

Professor Gordon
e-mail: rjg@northwestern.edu
Office hours: Wednesday 3:30 - 5:00 pm or by appointment
Andersen Hall 350
Costel Andonie
e-mail:
c-andonie@northwestern.edu
Office hours:
Thursday 5-7pm
Andersen Hall 328
Jerry Jin
e-mail:
j-jin@northwestern.edu
Office hours:
Thursday 3-5pm
Andersen Hall 328

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Answers to Questions & Problems in Textbook:

The following are available for downloading/printing:

Chapter 1
What is Macroeconomics?

Chapter 2
The Measurement of Income, Prices, and Unemployment

Chapter 3
Spending, Income, and Interest Rates

Chapter 4
Monetary and Fiscal Policy in the IS-LM Model

Chapter 5
National Saving, Borrowing, and the Twin Defecits

Chapter 6
International Trade, Exchange Rates, and Macroeconmic Policy

Chapter 7
Aggregate Demand, Aggregate Supply, and the Self-Correcting Economy

Chapter 8
Inflation: Its Causes and Cures

Chapter 9
The Goals of Stabilization Policy: Low Inflation and Low Unemployment

Chapter 10
The Theory of Economic Growth

Chapter 11
The Big Questions of Economic Growth

Chapter 12
The Government Budget, the Public Debt, and Social Security

Chapter 13
Money and Financial Markets

Chapter 14
Stabilization Policy in the Closed and Open Economy

Chapter 15
Instability in the Private Economy: Consumption Behavior

Chapter 16
Instability in the Private Economy: Investment

Chapter 17
New Classical Macro Confronts New Keynesian Macro

Chapter 18
Conclusion: Where We Stand


Lecture Slides:

The following lecture presentation slides are available for viewing:

Chapter 1

Additional Lecture Material presented 25 September, 2006 on Europe vs. US

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Additional Lecture Material presented 8 November 2006 on the Econometric Inflation Model

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Additional Lecture Material presented 22 November 2006 on Social Security and on Using Monetary Policy to Stabilize the Economy

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Appendix A

Appendix B

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