Econ 484 

Syllabus
Schedule.
Papers list


Schedule of presentations:

03/03
Bankruptcy Rules, College Enrollment, and Default Incentives for Student Loans (2007).
Slides - Ionescu

03/04 - Tuesday - 11:45!
Public education expenditures, taxation and growth: linking data to theory, by  William F. Blankenau, Nicole B. Simpson, and Marc Tomljanovich (2007).
Slides - Simpson

03/10
Individual Account Investment Options and Portfolio Choice: Behavioral Lessons from 401(k) Plans, by Jeffrey R. Brown, Nellie Liang, Scott Weisbenner, NBER Working Paper No. 13169, 2007.
The Role of Unemployment Insurance in an Economy with Liquidity Constraints and Moral Hazard, by Gary D. Hansen, Ayse Imrohoroglu, The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 100, No. 1. (Feb., 1992), pp. 118-142.

03/24
The Role of Information in Consumer Debt and Bankruptcy, by Juan Sanchez, working paper.
Does Parents' Money Matter, by John Shea,  Journal of Public Economic, 2006.

03/31
The Optimal Inflation Target in an Economy with Limited Enforcement, by Costas Azariadis, Gaetano Antinolfi, and James Bullard.
Inside the black box: the credit channel of monetary policy transmission, by Bernanke and Gertler, Journal of Economic Perspectives (9), 1995.

04/07
Health Insurance and the Obesity Externality, by Jay Bhattacharya and Neeraj Sood, working paper
Health Insurance: The Trade-Off between risk pooling and moral hazard, by Willard G Manning and M Susan Marquis, working paper

04/14
Does School Quality Matter? Returns to Education and the Characteristics of Public Schools in the United States,
by David Card and Alan B. Krueger

04/27  Sunday - 6:30! - Students' Final Projects:

Determinants of Household Portfolio Decisions - Brad
The Costs and Benefits of Souvereign Wealth Funds - Brandon
Subsidizing Ocean Views: Moral Hazard in Property Insurance - Barnes
The Indirect Effects of Subprime Crisis on the U.S. - Isuru
Monetary Policy and Asset Market Bubbles - Niyi

04/28 - Students' Final Projects:

Globalization Effects on Monetary Policy: a look at EU' s New Entrants - Elizabeth
Economic Growth Across Caraibeean - Juvenne
Human Capital Accumulation in the context of social Segregation- Stephanie
An Alternative to Universal Care -Casey
Employing and Financing a Universal Health Care System -Adam


Research papers links:
NBER
RePEc
SSRN
Minneapollis Fed
NY Fed
Philadelphia Fed

Data links:
NBER 
Summers and Heston Penn World Tables
U.S. Census Bureau Database
Bureau of Economic Analysis
PSID (The Panel Study of Income Dynamics)
Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)
OECD
IPUMS (Individual and household level data; mostly Census)
World Bank Research Datasets
Survey of Consumer Finance

Other useful links:
Statistical Computing Resources - UCLA
H. Varian (1997)