Intermediate Macroeconomics · Economics
Midterm exam 30%, final exam 46%, quizzes 24% (4 grades at 6% each)
Lectures were sometimes confusing, but he's overall a nice guy/helpful professor. The TA, Joel, is wonderful & hosts very helpful office hours. The problem sets are optional but very similar to the format of his in class quizzes & exams.
Macroeconomics, cookies, old Japanese traditions
Midterm exam 30%, final exam 46%, quizzes 24% (4 grades at 6% each) -- you take 5 quizzes and drop your lowest score. You get docked points if you get a multiple-choice question wrong, but you don't lose any points if you leave a question blank. Annoying policy he says is aimed to prevent people from blindly guessing. Just have to do the assignments (not graded, just practice problems) to prepare well for the quizzes.
Al lot about macroeconomics, and more specifically about growth.
Overall I did not enjoy this course. He is not an engaging lecturer and is extremely repetitive. The one thing I will say is that the homework assignments prepare you well for the in class quizzes. However, they don't prepare you super well for the midterm or final. Both exams include multiple-choice sections and a "discussion question". He does not give any practice with the discussion questions throughout the course.
A lot about macroeconomic theory, specifically growth theory and business cycle theory - .
Economic growth, business cycles, classical vs Keynesian attitudes, general macroeconomics
I gained a more thorough understanding of the macroeconomic theories which economists use to explain long-term economic growth and the business cycle. Whether or not those theories actually apply to the real world is another question, but I certainly understand them better now than I did before.
Solow-swan model of capital accumulation and growth, inter-temporal budget constraints, money markets, etc.