Posts from — October 2007

• Lapworks – Bundle Deals
  Might be useful.
  (tags: macstuff)

A good background article for EC4333 students. Lane writes:

Ireland’s referendum on the Reform Treaty | vox - Research-based policy analysis and commentary from Europe’s leading economists

Tags: EC4333

Monitoring the euro area economy in real-time | vox - Research-based policy analysis and commentary from Europe’s leading economists

Interesting Piece, EC4333 students should take a look.

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Actually, these are tips for using a laptop in a place where people are speaking. As I coordinate the seminars here at UL, these tips will be really useful for me.

Nice one, Bruno.

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Tags: Freakonomics

• iwright - Ian Wright
  (tags: interestingpeople economics)

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iwright - Ian Wright

Papers and Simulation software from a guy exploring Marxist economics from a computational standpoint. Awesome.

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Here’s the start of a series of links for Stock-Flow Consistent Modeling, something like the start of a literature review on the subject. We’ll see.
 
Version 1: 29.10.07.

Books
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Monetary Economics: An Integrated Approach to Credit, Money, Income, Production and Wealth
Hardback 576 pp [Palgrave MacMillan - Academic Publisher]
(December 2006) Wynne Godley With Marc Lavoie

Reconstructing Macroeconomics, Lance Taylor

The Godley Papers, a collection of articles published in The NSS (New Statesman and Society) and The Observer between 1988 and 1992.

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Papers
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Do Heterodox Theories Have Anything in Common? ,  Journal of Economics, Vol. 3 (2006), No. 1, pp. 87 – 112

A Post-Keynesian Stock-Flow Consistent Macroeconomic Growth Model: Preliminary Results, Levy Institute WP 402.

A simple model of three economies with two currencies: the eurozone and the USA, Cambridge Journal of Economics 2007 31(1):1-23

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Interesting People & Their Papers
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Wynne Godley
Marc Lavoie
Gennaro Zezza

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Tags: SFC+Modelling, SAMS, Godley

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Don’t know if I agree with everything here, but it makes for interesting viewing

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You can watch the lecture below and download the slides.

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Download the handout by clicking the image below.

We talked about this in class on Friday, here’s a nice graph for you.

You’re looking at appropriations for U.S. Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and for the War on Terrorism (Billions of dollars), according to the Congressional Budget Office.

via Mankiw’s Blog, cheers.

5 Reasons Why You Should Simplify What You Say, and How to Do It:

Just click ‘play now’ to watch the podcast.

 

 EC4333 Lecture 7: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Right click the link below to download the problem set.

EC4333_2007_ProblemSet_2.pdf

You’ll also need the Solow.xls spreadsheet designed by Brad DeLong to complete this problem set. It’s at the link below.

Solow.xls

Dr. Alan Ahearne from NUI, Galway will be visiting UL this week to give a talk on “Internal and External Current Account Balances in the Euro Area”. Here are his slides, and hopefully a recording of his talk will be featured below after the lecture.

Date: 24 October, 2007

Time & Place: ERB008, 2pm.

Click here to download the slides.

The abstract of the talk is:

The dispersion in current account balances among countries in the euro area has widened markedly over the past decade-and-a-half, and especially since 1999.  We decompose current account positions for euro area countries  into intra-euro-area balances and extra-euro-area balances and examine the determinants of these balances.  Regarding intra-euro-area balances, we present evidence that capital tends to flow from high-income economies in the euro area to low-income economies euro area.  These flows have increased since the creation of the single currency in Europe.
Regarding extra-euro-area balances, we estimate a model of the trade balance of the euro area and individual euro-area countries with the rest of the world.  We find that a real appreciation of the euro against the currencies of its main trading partners appears to have a substantial effect on the euro area’s net exports in the long run, though the immediate effect is small.  Our estimates for individual countries suggest that the
adjustment to a real appreciation of the euro would not be equally distributed across euro-area countries.  In particular, Germany would bear the largest share of the
adjustment, while the other large euro-area economies would be relatively unaffected.
Finally, we find that the introduction of the euro seems to have changed the dynamics of trade balance adjustment in three of the larger euro-area economies.

Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman explains why no one really knows how to make even a simple pencil. This will be of interest to CTYI students.

link, via Cafe Hayek.