Study Guide for use with Macroeconomics - Softcover

Bradford DeLong

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070918236 ISBN 13: 9780070918238

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Higher Education, 2003

Synopsis

Adapted by Leigh MacDonald at University of Western Ontario, each chapter in this guide begins with an overview and is followed by a set of matching exercises and multiple-choice questions under Basic Definitions. These are followed by two sets of exercises, Manipulation of Concepts and Models and Applying the Concepts and Models. This is followed by some problems for Explaining the Real World and a set of questions under the heading Possibilities to Ponder. Finally, solutions are provided for all exercises and problems.

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J. Bradford DeLong (B.A., Ph.D., Harvard University) is a Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. Before joining Berkeley in 1995, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy in the U.S. Department of the Treasury (1993 to 1995), and an Associate Professor at Harvard University. Professor DeLong is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a co-editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives. He is a prolific writer, with a wide range of interests in macroeconomics, economic history, and finance. He has published more than 100 articles, including articles in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Journal of Economic History. His own website, http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/ contains a great amount of material and is widely considered to be one of the best academic websites on economics available.

Arman Mansoorian is a professor of economics at York University. He completed his undergraduate education at the London School of Economics before moving to Canada, where he completed his Ph.D. at Queen’s University in 1989. His fields of specialization are macroeconomics and fiscal federalism; his works have been published in Economic Journal, International Economic Review, Journal of International Economics, and Journal of Public Economics, among other journals. Professor Mansoorian has served as Director of the Economics Graduate Program and Chair of the Department of Economics at York. Before joining York University, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Western Ontario and Dalhousie University.

Leo Michelis is a professor of economics at Ryerson University. Before joining Ryerson in 1996, he taught at York University and the University of Western Ontario. Professor Michelis received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from York University, and his Ph.D. degree from Queen´s University in 1993. His areas of special interest in teaching and research are macroeconomics, international finance, and econometrics. He has published articles in the Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Econometric Theory, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Quantitative Economics, and the Journal of Economic Integration. In addition to Macroeconomics, he is the co-editor of two books on economic integration and is a contributing author for several books.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Higher Education
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070918236
• ISBN 13: 9780070918238
• Binding: Paperback