Info. about the Exams.

Salam Folks,
I'm guessing you are all very busy getting ready for the finals... It shall be ok In Shaa Allah.

I decided to provide you with some information about the exams just so you know what to expect and this is true for both the Micro and the Macro class.

Overall there will be 5 questions for you to answer any 4 and that will sum up to 50marks. For the accountancy students, I will scale it up to 70 by dividing whatever mark you score by 50 and multiplying it by 70.

The guidelines didn't change- from after the mid-term to the last chapter. In order to balance the exams, there will be a combination of both calculation and theory so be prepared for both of them.

Due to the large class sizes and my fear that the time might not be available to attempt a bonus question, I am thinking of omitting the bonus question for extra credit. As a matter of fact, quite a good number of the students give it back to me as a bonus again. :-).

About the group projects, you do not necessarily have to wait for the deadline to submit you can submit before the deadline and I will try to create time to grade them before the exams to let you know of your stance.

I better stop here. I am writing too much...

P.S there will be a quiz on the date of the exams..... wink.

Salam
Sering

Final Note- Spring 2012

Dear All,
Greetings,
It's last day of classes this week! Wow! the semester has moved so fast!
I am going to miss you all.... I am going to miss standing in front of you guys say "please do away with all economic materials and cut a piece of paper, we have a quiz today". or "please note that a new homework has been posted on the blog the due date is bla bla bla and late submission penalties apply.."

On a serious note, I will really miss each and everyone of you... it was great having you all sign up for my class and it's excellent to have you.
Granted, it must have been really challenging with so much work, but I believe it was worth it..
I seek forgiveness from each and everyone of you if I have offended you in anyway during the course of the semester...

Please check with the notice board for a breakdown of your grade summary to confirm your status in the class.
Good luck with your exams and good luck with everything!

That's about it for now. See you around.

Cheers
Sering

P.S Macro Students, below is a link to an interesting analysis of the latest Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank report by The Point newspaper... Last reading I promise.. :-)

http://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/gambia-battles-with-increased-domestic-debt

Macro Class--May8th. 2012

Macro Students,
Greetings,
Please refer to the links below to download the lecture slides for tomorrow's class- Ooops! its already past mid-night.. I mean today's class.

http://www.mediafire.com/?1jsgtf9pga79ntk  Chap 13: Long Run Macroeconomic Adjustments

http://www.mediafire.com/?a6rs1615yzyd6yk   Chap 14: Economic Growth- The Gambia's case

I will to complete the two topics in class and then we will have a quick quiz which however will be optional this time around. If you already have pretty good quizzes, you will be exempted from the quiz.

I look forward to a very interesting class today Insha Allah especially on the last chapter.

Cheers
Sering

Interesting Reading for Macro Class

Macro Students,
Greetings,
Please refer to the link below to read an Interesting piece by The Economist on growth/recovery of the US Economy. It uses a GDP perspective to measuring growth and provides an interesting analysis...

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2012/04/americas-economy-2

Cheers
Sering

Macro CLass

Macro Students,
Greetings,
please refer to the link below the download the lecture slides for today's class- April 24th.
Quick reminder: We will be having a quiz today!

http://www.mediafire.com/?ab6s0f9c7fn2lrh

See you in class


Cheers
Sering

Micro Class

Micro Class,

Greetings,

please refer to the link below to download the Group Homework and the slides for today's class on Government and Market Failure.

Today's Class

http://www.mediafire.com/?6nxc5xavgfkwtkx

Group Homework Questions:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?841d75809kn88rh

The Group Homework is due on May 4th in Class. All members MUST be present in class to avoid losing marks.

Cheers
Sering.

Principles of Economics 2: Lecture Slides

Macro Students,
Greetings,
please refer to the link below to download the lecture slides for the last class on Money Creation.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ofa2p7od7o14cdw

Cheers
Sering

Principles of Economics 1: Lecture Slides

Micro Students,
Nama naa len,
please refer to the link below to download the lecture slides for today's class- April 16th.

http://www.mediafire.com/?etq17kf41zuu4hy

A lot of you might not be awake at the time I'm making this post, but expect to have a quiz Insha Allah... From now on, expect to write to a quiz every class Insha Allah... #just telling you.

The Mid-term scripts will be distributed in class as well.

Articles for Macro Class

Macro Students,
Greetings,
please refer to the links below to download the articles for the various groups:

Africa Rising- The Economist.
The Sun shines bright The Economist.
Not Enough Inflation by Paul Krugman on the New York Times
Pushing Back Against Austerity by Paul Krugman on the New York Times
Miracle or Mathus The Economist.
Recovery: is it The Aggregate Demand The Economist.

Note about the articles: You should read the articles and summarize them in not more than one page and answer the following questions in another page:
1. What do you think is wrong with the author's argument? Is there a better solution?
2.How does the authors argument ultimately affect GDP or any other macroeconomic variable?
3. What assumptions is the author making? are they valid assumptions?

All responses to the articles must be submitted by e-mail not later than mid-night of May4th 2012.
to sering.touray@gmail.com. penalty for late submissions apply.


If you have any further questions, please shoot me an e-mail or give me a call..
Also, it will great if you can also read the other articles by the other groups. it will do you a lot of good.


Cheers
Sering.

Principles of Economics 2: Lecture Slides

Macro Students,
Greetings,
Welcome back from the short break!
please refer to the links below to download the lecture slides for today's class

Chap9 on Fiscal Policy
Chap10 on Money and Banking

Also, I have gathered a couple of articles on the topics we have done already. Each group will be assigned to an article to do a summary of and answer questions. based on how much time we have, I might ask the groups to do a presentation of the articles...

See you in class today... Insha Allah.

Cheers
Sering

Readings For Macro

Macro Students,
Greetings,
Below are readings which I found pretty interesting and relate very much to our discussions in our recent classes.

Paul Krugman's piece on inflation as a necessity to spur growth in the US economy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/opinion/krugman-not-enough-inflation.html

Here is another piece on austerity- tightening the economy he wrote late March. It relates very much to our current topic on fiscal policy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/22/opinion/pushing-back-against-austerity.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Pushing%20back%20against%20austerity&st=cse

The readings are very important for your understanding in what we are talking about.. please endeavor to read them...

Cheers
Sering

Group Projects!

Students,
Greetings,
please refer to the links below to download the group project questions... To confirm your respective groups, please talk to your class reps.

Principles of Micro

Principles of Macro

Cheers
Sering

Mid Term Exams

Students,

Greetings,

I hope you are all having a relaxing break!

The Mid term exams as discussed in class will on April 2nd and 3rd. for Micro and Macro respectively.

In each of the exams, there will be 4 questions from which you are to answer any 3 in about one hour and 30minutes. all the questions carry equal marks. in addition, there is/are Bonus question(s) worth 5points which is/are optional to attempt.

The question will be cumulatively graded out of 30 points and later scaled down to 25% of your final score in the course. In essence, the mid-term is worth 25points of your final score! quite a lot to struggle for!.

Things you will need:

Calculator

Answer sheets/plain sheets

pen and pencil

probably a ruler

and a battler of water just in case it gets pretty hot! :-)

Good luck!!

Cheers

Sering

Principles of Economics 2: Lecture Slides

Macro Students,
Greetings,
please refer to the link below to download the lecture slides for today's class, March 27th. on Fiscal Policy...

http://www.mediafire.com/?qk4bmyn11rm8lpn

Cheers
Sering

Principles of Economics 1: Lecture Slides

Micro Students,
please refer to the link below to download the lecture slides on Price and output determination in Pure Monopoly.

http://www.mediafire.com/?bklunpuz9r9lag9

See you in class.

Cheers
Sering

Finally Got it!

Folks,
Greetings,
After tirelessly searching through many free file sharing websites, I have finally been able to get our target down! Yes! I have!
Ok let me be straight with this before people think I am some kind of different person... I have finally been able to download the 17 edition of McConnell- the Micro and Macro combined in one book!
The first part of the book is the Macroeconomics and the other component is the Microeconomics component...
Refer to the link below:

http://www.mediafire.com/?vv6zwl8le7a2sis 
Enjoy!

Cheers
Sering

Principles of Economics 2: Lecture Slides

Macro Students
please refer to the link below to download the lecture on Aggregate Demand & Supply for March20th.

http://www.mediafire.com/?kbn82isv8p5arob

See you in class...

Cheers
Sering

Principles of Economics 1: Homework 3

Micro Students,
I know this will not go well with most of you, but please refer to the link below to download the questions for Homework3.

http://www.mediafire.com/?kezm0j49he4x9tx

Due date is March 30th not later than 3pm!

Cheers
Sering

Principles of Economics 1: Lecture Slides

Micro Students,
Greetings,
Please refer to the link below to download the lecture slides on Perfect Competition- Lecture on Monday, March19th.

http://www.mediafire.com/?y1x48aoqkb01io1

Cheers
Sering

Principles of Economics 2: Lecture Slides

Macro Students,
Please refer to the link below to download the lecture slides for today's class- March 13th.

http://www.mediafire.com/?5co0zzvhll1tgm7

See you in class.

Cheers
Sering

Principles of Economics 1: Lecture Slides

Micro Students,
Greetings,
please refer to the link below to download the slides for the next class, March 12th. 2012.

http://www.mediafire.com/?1b4hv5kfd7ttfa3

See you all in class..

Cheers
Sering

Principles of Economics 2: Lecture Slides+ Homework1

Macro Students,
please refer to the link below to download the lecture slides for today's class- March6th.

http://www.mediafire.com/?xbj87id4rerznwc

Also, homework 1 is issued and it's due March 20th. Insha Allah.. A hard copy will be given to the class rep and the soft copy can be downloaded from the link below..


http://www.mediafire.com/?e9pvcbd4plqcvu6

Cheers
Sering

Principles of Economics 1: Lecture Slides

Micro Students,
please refer to the link below to download the slides for the March 5th class...


Chapter 5- March 5th.

Meanwhile, the date for the make up quiz will be announced in class..
Cheers
Sering

Principles of Economics 2 Lecture 5+ Group Project

Macro Students
Greetings,
please refer to the links below to download the lecture slides for today's class (Feb 21st.) and the Group project questions.


Lecture 5


Reading Homework 5


Group Projects

See you in class...

Cheers
Sering

Principles of Microecomics Lecture 4 Slides + HW2

Micro Students,
Greetings,
Please refer to the link below to download the lecture slides for today's class (Feb. 20th.)

http://www.mediafire.com/?qb624une1mvk426

Also, please refer to the link below to download the questions for Homework 2.

http://www.mediafire.com/?1db6kcae1wnd7vc

Cheers
Sering

Macro Reading Homeworks

Macro Students,
please refer to the links below to download reading homeworks 3 and 4.

Reading 3

Reading 4

My apologies for not being able to make it to class on Tuesday... I got delayed at Brikama...

Cheers
Sering

Principles of Microecomics Lecture 3 Slides + HW1

Micro Students,
Greetings,
please refer to the following link to download the lecture slides for today (Feb 13th.).

http://www.mediafire.com/?bhl66yuxc68vdk7

please note that an assignment was issued in class due next week in class.
the Question was:

Graphically illustrate (with all necessary explanations) the effect on price and quantity when:

a)Supply increases, ceteris paribus,
b) Supply decreases, ceteris paribus

Due Date: Feb. 20th. 2012, in class.

Cheers
Sering

Principles of Economics 2 Lecture 2

Macro students,
Greetings,
please refer to the link below to download the lecture slides for today's class- Feb 7th. 2012.

Lecture 2- Feb7th


See you in class.

Cheers
Sering

Principles of Microeconomics Lecture 2 Slides

Micro students,
Greetings,
please refer to the link below to download the second part of lecture 2 (Feb 6th.)

http://www.mediafire.com/?f9s2duewspki256

Cheers
Sering

Principles of Economics 2 Lectures

Macro Students,
Greetings,
please refer to the links below to download the materials for the previous class.

Lecture 1

Lecture 1_cont'd

Reading 1

Reading 2

Principles of Economics 1 Lecture Slides: Week 1

Please refer to the link below to  download the lecture slides for previous class and the next one.


http://www.mediafire.com/?d8ar66iek3qdpqj

See you in class.

Cheers
Sering

Principles of Economics 1 Text books

Dear All,
Greetings,
Because of the size of the books, please refer to the link below to download the books:

Microeconomics by Mankiw then click on the download button.

Microeconomics by McConnell & Brue

In case you have any problems downloading the files, please contact me.

Also, you can download a lot of books for FREE from 4shared
and a lot of social science articles on SSRN
Enjoy!
Apologies though that it took me time to upload the materials... our internet connection was acting up...

See you in class..

Sering

Welcome Back + Course Outlines= Lectures begin!

Hey Folks,
Greetings,

To the continuing students, Welcome back! I hope you all had a pretty good break.
To the Freshmen, Congratulations on your admissions and welcome to the School of Business and good luck with your studies.
Please refer to the links below to download the course outlines for both my Micro and Macro class...

 Principles of Microeconomics

Principles of Macroeconomics

Cheers
Sering