Money and Banking

Spring 2012

Week

Topic

#1 -  January 16

Current Economic Conditions
Hubbard: Chapter 25: Understanding the Business Cycle.   

#2 -  January 23

Hubbard: Chapters 1, 2 and 3: The Financial System

#3 -  January 30

Hubbard: Chapter 4: Interest Rates

#4 -  February 6

Hubbard: Chapter 5: Portfolio Theory

#5 -  February 13

Hubbard: Chapter 6: Determining Market Interest Rates                                         

#6 -  February 20

Hubbard: Chapter 7: Risk and Term Structure of Interest Rates

#7 -  February 27

Hubbard: Chapter 8: Exchange Rates     

#8 -  March 5

Hubbard: Chapter 9: Derivatives

#9 -  March 12

Hubbard: Chapters 12 and 13: Financial Institutions

#10 - March 19

Hubbard: Chapters 14: Financial Institutions      

          March 26

Spring Break

#11 – April 2

Hubbard: Chapter 15: Banking Regulation

#12 - April 9

Hubbard: Chapters 17, 18 and 19: Central Banking      

#13 - April 16

Hubbard: Chapters 20 and 21: Monetary Policy

#14 - April 23

The Financial Crisis

#15 - April 30

Hubbard: Chapter 24: The IS-LM Model