There will also be a required reader available at the copy center. A recommended additional text is Fisher Black, Exploring General Equilibrium. Many people find that it provides helpful intuition on real business cycle theory. These weights are fixed - improvement on later exams will not retroactively raise your grades on earlier exams. There will be four homework assignments during the semester.
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. Long, John, and Charles Plosser.