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 Contents
 First session information | Audience | Sketch of macroeconomic concepts
1. Metamacroeconomic ideas | 14 Feb 2017
Slides to hallucinate | 7 Feb 2017
The stock market as a beauty contest | 9 Feb 2017
2. GDP and inflation rate | 16 Feb 2017
3. Unemployment and unemployment rate | 23 Feb 2017
4. Models to explain unemployment | 28 Feb 2017
5. Basic macroeconomic accounting | 9 Mar 2017
6. Aggregate supply and aggregate demand (AS-AD) model and expenditure multiplier | 16 Mar 2017
7. Money | 21 Mar 2017 Sketch of the financial sector
8. Financial assets | 23 Mar 2017 | Minsky moment
Dow Jones | 1928-2017 | 1928-53 | 1986-2017 | 2007-17 | 2015-17
 Dow Jones historical data
NASDAQ | 1971-2017
NASDAQ historical data
9. Interest rates and central banks | 23 Mar 2017
10. Interest rate determination | 28 Mar 2017
11. Exchange rate and exchange rate determination | 28 Mar 2017
Big Mac Index
On the trilemma (with thanks to Maggie F)
12. Theory of macroeconomic policy | 6 Apr 2017 | Slides | Fiscal policy rules (Spain)
Swan diagram
'Whatever it takes' ( Spain's risk premium)
Nobel laurate Christopher Sims on how (not?) to fight corruption | LV 24 Apr 2017
Macroeconomic forecast 2017-20 by the Spanish government | 28 Apr 2017
( www.lamoncloa.gob.es)
Stability programme update by the Spanish government | 28 Apr 2017
National reform programme, 2017, Kingdom of Spain
Investors presentation, April 2017, Spanish Treasury
Spanish law 2/2012, from the 27 of April, on budget stability and financial sustainability
AIReF On the reform of art. 135 of the Spanish 1978 Constitution
Seven deadly innocent frauds of economic policy by Warren Mosler (click here if the link is broken)
Fifteen fatal fallacies of financial fundamentalism by William Vickrey (click here if the link is broken)
Problem sets
 Problem set 1: Exercises | Multiple choice questions
GDP, GDP per capita, CPI, GDP deflator, inflation rate
Problem set 2: Exercises | Multiple choice questions
Unemployment, business cycle, AS-AD model, savings and balance identities
Problem set 3: Exercises | Multiple choice questions
Monetary aggregates,financial assets, interest rate, exchange rate
Problem set 4: Exercises | Multiple choice questions
Macroeconomic policy
Evaluation
1st call
35% of the final mark: mid-term activities and mid-term exam (Tuesday 4 April 2017)
25% of the final mark: end-of-term exam (Thursday 23 May 2017)
40% of the final mark: final exam (Friday 26 May 2017, 12:00)
It is necessary to pass the final exam to pass the course
2nd call
100% of the mark: final exam (Monday 19 June 2017, 12:00)
Exams
Exam 1 | 23 Feb 2017
Exam 2 | 7 Mar 2017
Exam 3 | Mid-term exam (on topics 1-6) 4 Apr 2017
Exam 4 | 27 Apr 2017
Exam 5 (non natus) | 2 May 2017
Exam 5 (end-of-term exam) | 23 May 2017
Final exam (1st call) | 26 May 2017 
Final exam (2nd call) | 19 Jun 2017
Marks
From Exam 1 | 23 Feb 2017
From Exam 2 | 7 Mar 2017
From Exam 4 | 27 Apr 2017
From the end-of-term exam | 23 May 2017
From the final exam (1st call) | 26 May 2017
Includes the final mark in the 1st call
From the final exam (2nd call) | 19 Jun 2017
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Links
Happy planet index | Calculate your personal score on the Happy Planet Index here
New Maddison Project Database: Economic growth in the world between AD 1 and 2010
World press
CIA World factbook
World economic outlook (IMF, January 2017)
Tradingeconomics
The end of male supremacy? usnews.com | npr.org
Cum hoc fallacy? The male organ hypothesis | Animated chart | Chart
Can men's intelligence be seen? | Paper
Hair colour and intelligence
Stockpile of correlations | More
Men are more stupid than women | Male idiot theory and the Darwin awards
(Darwin awards 1995-2014: 282 men, 36 women, 14 shared)
Rich and poor countries: the Earth at night 1 2 3 4 5 6 | Nightearth.com
Blue banana BB | Golden banana GB | Other bananas
Spain · National accounts | Methodology
The inflation monster!
Will a robot take your job? | BBC news
Will your job be done by a machine? | npr.org
[The site says that college professors have a 3.2% chance of being
automated]
An algorithm defeats professional poker players | THE INDEPENDENT.co.uk 2 Mar 2017
This 2013 paper by CB Frey and MA Osborne suggests a list of occupations ranked
according to their probability of computerization
Pyramid of the capitalist system
Banknote statistics (UK)
Reserve Bank of India (Database)
New €50 baknote on 4 April, 2017
The new euro banknotes
Euro coins and banknotes in circulation
The €500 baknote is dead
Banknotes of the world
New US dollar note designs
US banknotes
Eurozone monetary aggregates
ECB Statistical Data Warehouse
Spain's national debt
US debt clock
Speculation and the attack on the Borussia Dortmund team bus
China's impossible trinity
'The big short' Film Book
Links suggested by Manel F 1 2 3
Spanish public debt again above 100% GDP: 100,33% | EL MUNDO 18 May 2017
Figures
WORLD
GDP growth | GDP per capita 1 2 3 4 |
Argentina 1 2 | Ecuador | France | India | Indonesia 1 2 | Italy | Spain 1 2 | US
GDP per capita FRA ITA SPA ID IN ARG ECU USA · 1820-2010
FIS | FISII | ALL | ALL2 | NoUS | 9 Feb 2017 Source:  Maddison
Phillips curve (WEO Oct 2016) Argentina 1 2 | Ecuador | France | India | Indonesia | Italy | Spain | US
Okun's law (WEO Oct 2016) Argentina | Ecuador | France | India | Indonesia | Italy | Spain | US
EUROZONE
Exchange rate against Dollar 1 2 | Pound 1 2 | Indian rupee
Euribor 1 2 | ECB rates
SPAIN
Inflation rate 1962M1-2017M1 | 2003M1-2017M1 | 2003M1-2017M1 (monthly)
GDP growth rate (1971Q1-2016Q4) quarterly annual | WEO Oct 2016
GDP & inflation rate | GDP growth rate & inflation rate
GDP, CPI, GDP deflator, unemployment (WEO Oct 2016)
Inflation rate & unemployment rate (1976Q3-2016Q4) quarterly annual | WEO Oct 2016
Unemployment rate 1976Q3-2004Q4 2001Q1-2016Q4 | Labour force 1976Q3-2004Q4
Employment 1976Q3-2004Q4 2001Q1-2016Q4 | Inflation & unemployment (1976-2016)
Phillips curve | 1976-2016 | Decomposition: 1976-86 1987-2016 1976-2016
Okun's law (1976Q3-2016Q4) 1 2
Savings identity 1995Q1-2016Q4
CATALONIA
Unemployment rate 1976Q3-1995Q4 2001Q1-2016Q4 | Participation rate
Employment 1976Q3-1995Q4 2001Q1-2016Q4
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The Spanish economy