The following texts are required, and should be available in the bookstore. A reader containing most of the latter type will be available at the copy center. The readings will play an important role in lecture, homework, and exams. For supplementary reading, you may consult the outlines from courses taught by Cowen, Bernanke, and Woodford. These weights are fixed - improvement on later exams will not retroactively raise your grades on earlier exams.
Late homework loses one point.
Late homework is no longer accepted after I pass out my suggested answers for a given assignment. My proposed schedule for the semester follows. If it proves too ambitious, I will try to simply say less about each topic rather than cut the topics for the final weeks. They are of course still required reading. Azariadis, Intertemporal Macroeconomics .