Economics Instructional Videos and Notes
This is a collection of all my videos teaching economic concepts. I've also included Lecture Notes when I have them available. At the bottom is a collection of Lecture Notes and Materials that I hope to have videos for one day as well.
These are all videos of me personally teaching the material.
Videos
Aggregate Demand - Aggregate Supply
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AS-AD 1: aggregate demand (AD)
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AS-AD 2: graphing AD
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AS-AD 3: long-run agg. supply (LRAS)
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AS-AD 4: short-run agg. supply (SRAS)​
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AS-AD 5: consumer optimism Pt1
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AS-AD 6: consumer optimism Pt2
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AS-AD 7: pessimism Pt1
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AS-AD 8: pessimism Pt2
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Lecture Notes
Core Economic Material Review
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Supply and Demand Analysis
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Basic Math and S&D Models (download) - same as notes below under "Math Stuff"
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Intro Supply and Demand Analysis (download) - this is a longer, verbal and graphical (no math needed) intro to supply and demand analysis with several pages of examples at the end
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Slow Price versus Slow Quantity Adjustment and Time Paths (download)
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Solow Model Basics
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Solow Model 1: Review
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Solow Model 2: Review Golden Rule and max-Consumption Steady State​
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Solow Model 3: Review change in Depreciation Rate (delta)
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Solow Model 4: Review change in Technology (A)
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Solow Model 5: Review Increase in the Savings Rate
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Evaluating Growth 1: Basic Solow Model
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Solow Model with Population Growth
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Solow Model with Pop 1: Basics
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Solow Model with Pop 2: Basics Pt 2
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Evaluating Growth 2: Solow with Population Growth
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Solow Model with Technological Progress
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Solow Model with Tech 1: Overview Pt. 1
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Solow Model with Tech 2: Overview Pt. 2
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Solow Model with Tech 3: Exogenous A-Growth
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Evaluating Growth 3: Solow with Exogenous Tech
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Solow Model with Tech 4: Labor-Augmenting Growth
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Evaluating Growth 4: Solow with Labor Augmenting Tech
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Evalutating the Solow Models in terms of GDP per Capita
(These are the same as above, just all collected in one location)
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Lecture Notes: Comparing Models (This PDF explains comparisons. It only includes some of the models.)
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Evaluating Growth 1: Basic Solow Model
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Evaluating Growth 2: Solow with Population Growth
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Evaluating Growth 3: Solow with Exogenous Tech
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Evaluating Growth 4: Solow with Labor Augmenting Tech
Math Stuff
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Basic Math Review and Intro to Supply and Demand Models (2004 notes from my MBA class). (download)
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Converting to Growth Rates (% Changes): PDF Download on "Hat Algebra" - I do a lot of converting things into growth rates (percentage changes). The notation I use for growth rates is a "hat" over a variable. I teach my undergraduate students a few quick rules to convert variables into "hats" and I call it "hat algebra".
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Derivatives in 10 Min or Less: Downloadable PDF Note
​Transaction Costs and The Birth of Money
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Lecture Notes: Transaction Costs - A Basic Introduction
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Lecture Notes: Transaction Costs - The Birth of Money
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Money and the Price Level in the Short- and Long-Run
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Lecture Notes: Money and Prices
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Video: The Birth of Money - Intro
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Video: Money in the Short and Long Run - Part 2 The Mechanism
"The Nominal Money Market" or "The Market for Nominal Money Balances"
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​​Money Market 1: Money Demand
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Money Market 2: Graphing Money Demand
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Money Market 3: Money Supply
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Money Market 4: Equilibrium
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Money Market 5: Short Run Analysis
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Money Market 6: Long Run Analysis
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Money Market 7: Time Paths
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Converting the Real Money Market to the Nominal Money Market
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Real to Nominal Money Market 01: Basics
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Real to Nominal Money Market 02: Increase in M
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Real to Nominal Money Market 03: Decrease in M
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Real to Nominal Money Market 04: Increase in y
Money and Money Markets
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Lecture Notes: The Monetary System. Notes on Mankiw Chapter 4
The following notes cover all the material in the above notes from Mankiw's book, just in pieces and with specific emphasis on certain aspects. I recommend using the Mankiw Chap 4 notes and the notes below, then the videos too.
(The following notes are handwritten but will slowly be converted to typed notes.)
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Lecture Notes: Putting Money Into the Economy - Part 1 Basics​
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Lecture Notes: Putting Money Into the Economy - Part 2 Gifts
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Lecture Notes: Putting Money Into the Economy - Part 3 Domestic Open Market Operations
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Video: Putting Money Into the Economy (covers material in "Putting Money Into Economy Notes Parts 1, 2 and 3")
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Lecture Notes: The Money Multiplier Part 1 The Banking Multiplier
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Lecture Notes: The Money Multiplier Part 2 Counting Money
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Lecture Notes: The Money Multiplier Part 3 The Full Multiplier
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Lecture Notes: The USA's Central Bank - The Fed
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Lecture Notes: Bank Panics Part 1 - The Fragile System
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Lecture Notes: Bank Panics Part 2 - Solutions and Problems
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Lecture Notes: Bank Panics Part 3 - The Problem of Leverage
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Video: Banking Panics​
Flexible Exchange Rate Regime Analysis
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Unanticipated and Temporary Changes in Levels
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Flex E 1: Unanticipated & Temporary Increase in the Domestic Money Supply
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Flex E 2: Unanticipated & Temporary Increase in Domestic real GDP (real Income), y
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*Flex E 3: Unanticipated & Temporary Increase in theForeign Money Supply
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Unanticipated and Permanent Changes in Levels
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Flex E 4: Unanticipated & Permanent Increase in the Domestic Money Supply
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Flex E 5: Unanticipated & Permanent Increase in Domestic real GDP (real Income), y
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*Flex E 6: Unanticipated & Permanent Increase in the Foreign Money Supply
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Anticipated and Permanent Changes in Levels
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Flex E 7: Anticipated & Permanent Increase in the Domestic Money Supply
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*Flex E 8: Anticipated & Permanent Increase in the Foreign Money Supply