THURS OCT 28TH CLASS CANCELED

THURS OCT 28TH CLASS CANCELED

Both Econ 215 (8:00 - 9:15) and Econ 1010 (9:25-10:40) are cenceled today, Oct 28th. See you next Tuesday.

Data sets for dissertation

Fed state level data

http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/publications/allbkstat/

Mason and Calomiris:

http://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/review/98/05/9805jm.pdf

FDIC member bank data:

Brief explanation of housing in NIPA:

http://www.michaelcarliner.com/HE0110-Hous-GDP.pdf

Required Assginment: "How Four Drinking Buddies Saved Brazil"

REQUIRED

Since I think this podcast about inflation in Brazil is more likely to make an impression on you than my lectures I am assigning it as a required text. There will be a question on the midterm.

You can listen to it here: Planet Money.

Or you can get it from ITunes (it is free).