ECON 403 Topics in Macroeconomics

German Hyperinflation and Slump

Overview of the German Inflation

Sarah Crown’s Slides on Tullio Article

Inflation as distributional conflict

Sarah Crown’s Slides: Could Bruening Do It?

Noah Duran’s Slides on Voth: Wages or Interest?

The German Slump & Recovery: A DGE Exercise

The US (and World) in Depression

Noah Duran’s Slides: Bernanke – Macro of Great Depression

Brandon Goedhart’s Slides: Bernanke – James

Money/Gold Multiplier

Yolanda Lee’s Slides: Romer, The Great Crash and the Onset of the Great Depression

Epstein & Ferguson: Monetary Policy, Loan Liquidation and Industrial Conflict

Epstein & Ferguson: Response to Criticism

Bernanke: Nonmonetary Effects of the Financial Crisis

Jonathan Fragoso’s Slides: Bernanke & Parkinson, Unemployment, Inflation and Real Wages

Reflation and The Great Recovery

FDR’s New Deal Policies

Yolanda Lee’s Slides: Temin and Wigmore, The End of One Big Deflation

Alex Macri’s Slides: Cole and Ohanian, Neo-Classical Depression

Sarah Crown’s Slides: Eggertsson-Pugsley, Mistake of 1937

Chris Wardlaw’s Slides: Eggertsson, Great Expectations and the End of the Great Depression

Eggertsson, Was the New Deal Contractionary?

Bernanke and Gertler, Agency Costs, Net Worth, and Business Fluctuations

Chris Wardlaw’s Slides: De Long, Liquidationist Mindset

Brandon Goedhart’s Slides: Temin, The Great Depression

The Time Between

Yolanda Lee’s Slides: Economic Report of the President 1962

Chris Wardlaw’s Slides: Economic Report of the President 1982

Alex Macri’s Slides: Rapping and Pulley, Speculation, Deregulation and Interest Rates

Gali – Gambetti, On the Sources of the Great Moderation

The Great Recession – The Long Slump

Animal Spirits

Sarah Crown’s Slides: Cecchetti, Crisis and Response

Noah Duran’s Slides: Brunnermeier, Deciphering Credit Crunch

Raghuram Rajan: Financial Development and Risk

Ferguson – Johnson, Too Big to Bail I

Kyli Letang’s Slides, Ferguson - Johnson, Too Big to Bail II

Brandon Goedhart’s Slides, Mian – Sufi, Microdata and the Crisis

Yolanda Lee’ Slides, Eichengreen – Temin, Fetters of Gold and Paper

Jonathan Fragoso’s Slides, Blinder – Zandi, How the Great Recession Was Brought to an End

Alex Macri’s Slides, Cochrane, Fiscal Stimulus, Fiscal Inflation

Eggertsson – Krugman, Debt, Deleveraging and the Liquidity Trap

Chris Wardlow’s Slides, Hall, The Long Slump

Robert Hall, The Long Slump II