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New Board web site targets middle schoolers
Speech
Panel discussion: the transition from academic to policymaker
a speech at the Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Journal Article
Fed economic and financial ed web site gets makeover
In April the Fed announced a major redesign of its financial education Web site as a way to increase use of Federal Reserve educational materials and promote economic and financial education in the classroom.
Speech
Economics instruction and the brave new world of monetary policy
Presentation to the AEA National Conference on Teaching Economics and Research in Economic Education, San Francisco, CA, June 1, 2011
Journal Article
Adjustment for seasonal variation
Working Paper
Keynesian economics without the LM and IS curves: a dynamic generalization of the Taylor-Romer model
John Taylor and David Romer champion an approach to teaching undergraduate macroeconomics that dispenses with the LM half of the IS-LM model and replaces it with a rule for setting the interest rate as a function of inflation and the output gap - i.e., a Taylor rule. But> the IS curve is problematic, too. It is consistent with the permanent-income hypothesis only when the interest rate that enters the IS equation is a long-term rate - not the short-term rate controlled by the monetary authority. This article shows how the Taylor-Romer framework can be readily modified to eliminate this ...
Journal Article
Teacher workshops chip away at economic illiteracy
Workshops put on for teachers by the Atlanta and St. Louis Feds are having the desired results, a recent assessment shows. Teachers are learning about the economy and personal finance, and they are passing this information on to a student body that desperately needs it.
