Money and Banking Schedule
Date Topic Reading
1/9/2012 Introduction, Finance 1.1-1.3
1/11/2012 Banks, Finance and Economic Growth 1.4-1.5
1/13/2012 Financial Crises,  Output and the Price Level 1.6, 1-Appendix
1/16/2012 Martin Luther King Jr. Day No Class
1/18/2012 What is Money? 2.1-2.2
1/20/2012 The Money Supply and Liquidity 2.2-2.3
1/23/2012 Money and Central Banks 2.3-2.4
1/25/2012 The Value of Income Streams, Asset Prices 3.1-3.2
1/27/2012 Asset Price Fluctuations 3.3-3.5
1/30/2012 Interest Rates and Returns, Real Interest Rates 3.6-3.7
2/1/2012 Loanable Funds and Interest Rates 4.1-4.2
2/3/2012 Money Supply and Demand and Interest Rates 4.3
2/6/2012 The Term Structure of Interest Rates 4.4
2/8/2012 Default Risk, Liquidity, Taxes and Interest Rates 4.5-4.6
2/10/2012 Exam #1 1-4
2/13/2012 Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard in Finance 7.1-7.2
2/15/2012 Information Gathering and Regulation 7.3-7.4
2/17/2012 How Banks Address Asymmetric Information 7.5-7.6
2/20/2012 The Structure of Banking 8.1-8.2
2/22/2012 Securitization 8.3
2/24/2012 Subprime Lending, Government's Role in Lending 8.4-8.5
2/27/2012 What Banks Do 9.1-9.2
2/29/2012 How Banks Make Profits 9.3-9-4
3/2/2012 Managing Bank Risks 9.5-9.6
3/5/2012 Exam #2
3/7/2012 The Federal Reserve System and the Money Supply 11.1-11.2
3/9/2012 TBA
3/12/2012 Banks and the Money Supply 11-3-11.4
3/14/2012 The Fed's Monetary Tools 11.5
3/16/2012 The Fed and Interest Rates 11.6-11.7
3/19/2012 The Business Cycle and Aggregate Expenditures 12.1-12.2
3/21/2012 Aggregate Expenditures 12.2
3/23/2012 Fluctuations in Inflation 12.3
3/26/2012 The Complete Economy 12.4
3/28/2012 Monetary Neutrality 12.5
3/30/2012 Exam #3 11 and 12
4/2/2012 Monetary Policy and the Financial System 13.1-13.2
4/4/2012 Monetary Transmission Mechanisms 13.3
4/6/2012 Time Lags and Fiscal Policy 13.4-13.5
4/9/2012 Money and Inflation in the Long Run 14.1
4/11/2012 Money Growth 14.2
4/13/2012 Costs of Inflation, Dangers of Deflation 14.3-14.1
4/16/2012 Financial Crises and Rescues 18.1-18.2
4/18/2012 Crisis of 2007-2009 18.3
4/20/2012 Crisis of 2007-2009, The Future of Regulations 18.4
4/23/2012 Financial Crises in Emerging Economies 18.5
4/25/2012 Exam #4 13, 14, and 18
4/27/2012 Review
4/30/2012 Final All Course Chapters