Kerk Phillips

IIE 301

Related Links

• BYU Economics Department
• BYU College of Family Home and Social Sciences
• BYU David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies
• BYU Chapter of Sigma Iota Rho
• BYU International Relations Blog/Bulletin Board

Money and Banking

I am teaching this class at Korea University during Summer 2009

Syllabus

• Summer 2009

Past Exams

Summer 2005

• Midterm
• Final Exam

Summer 2006

• Midterm
• Final Exam

Summer 2007

• Final Exam

Summer 2008

• Final Exam

Powerpoint

• Structure of the Financial System chapter 2
• What is Money? chapter 3
• Basics of Interest Rates chapter 4
• Supply and Demand for Financial Assets & Money chapter 5
• Risk, Liquidity, Taxes and the Term Stucture chapter 6
• Rational Expectations and The Efficient Markets Hypothesis chapter 7
• Central Bank Organization chapter 12
• Tools of Monetary Policy chapters 14 & 15, also new Fed tools
• Foreign Exchange Markets chapter 17
• Exchange Rate Regimes chapter 18
• Money & Inflation chapter 24
• Rational Expectations chapter 25

Excel Files

• Yield to Maturity for Coupon Bonds
• Historic Data on yields of US Treasury securities of various maturity dates through July 2, 2009
• Spreadsheet for Simulation of Yield Curve Models
• Money Multipliers in the US

PDF Handouts

• A Primer on Foreign Currency Crises material related to chapter 18
• IS-LM / AS-AD Model replaces chapters 20-22 in the text
• Study Sheet for Final Exam Summer 2008

Useful Links

• Credit Easing, explained at the Cleveland Fed's website
• Federal Reserve Data - including interest rates
• US Bureau of Economic Analysis - source for national income accounts and balance of payements statistics
• US Bureau of Labor Statistics - source for the consumer price index
• The Conference Board - source of the consumer confidence index
• The Federal Reserve Board of Governors - entry point for information on the Fed
• Statistical Abstract of the United States - you never know, it might have what you're looking for