https://github.com/pmichaillat/economic-slack
Portal for the course "Economic Slack" at UCSC [ECON 221]
https://github.com/pmichaillat/economic-slack
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Portal for the course "Economic Slack" at UCSC [ECON 221]
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/pmichaillat/economic-slack
- Owner: pmichaillat
- License: cc-by-4.0
- Created: 2022-08-17T18:48:55.000Z (over 3 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-05-28T04:04:34.000Z (6 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-05-28T05:19:05.680Z (6 months ago)
- Topics: business-cycles, course-portal, economic-slack, fiscal-policy, idle-capacity, macroeconomics, matching-model, monetary-policy, unemployment
- Homepage: https://pascalmichaillat.org/w/
- Size: 14.9 MB
- Stars: 34
- Watchers: 6
- Forks: 6
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE.md
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README
# Economic Slack: Course Portal
This repository is the portal for the course "Economic Slack" taught by [Pascal Michaillat](https://pascalmichaillat.org/) at [UC Santa Cruz](https://www.ucsc.edu). The course ID is [ECON 221](https://economics.ucsc.edu/academics/courses/class-schedule.php/course/2240-30285/adv-methods-macro-ii). The portal contains the syllabus, provides a discussion forum, and hosts other course resources.
## Course webpage
The course materials are available at https://pascalmichaillat.org/w/.
## Portal content
+ [Syllabus for Winter 2024](https://github.com/pmichaillat/economic-slack/blob/main/syllabus.md)
+ [Book chapters](https://github.com/pmichaillat/economic-slack/tree/main/chapters) - The folder contains book chapters (in PDF) assigned as reading. These chapters may be hard to find otherwise.
+ [Discussion forum](https://github.com/pmichaillat/economic-slack/discussions) - This collaborative discussion forum is designed to get you help quickly and efficiently. You can ask and answer questions, share updates, have open-ended conversations, and follow along on decisions affecting the course.
+ [Lecture and research resources](https://github.com/pmichaillat/economic-slack/tree/main/resources) - The folder contains additional course resources, including results on convexity and possible research ideas.
+ [Presentations](https://github.com/pmichaillat/economic-slack/tree/main/presentations) - The folder contains student presentations given during the quarter, and some presentation examples.
## License
This repository is licensed under the [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).