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Chapter 2
Worked problem: Pizza e pasta - consuming in Italy
Your turn: Consumption function in first differences

Chapter 3
Worked problem: Investment, interest rates and oil prices in Norway
Your turn: Swiss money demand

Chapter 4
Worked problem: Amadeus by the dollar
Your turn: Are international interest rates equal?

Chapter 5
Worked problem: In and out of the United States
Your turn: Business cycle links under different exchange rate regimes

Chapter 6
Worked problem: Unemployment and the black economy
Your turn: The Phillips curve

Chapter 8
Worked problem: Inflation forecasts for Italy
Your turn: The Economist and the law of one price

Chapter 9
Worked problem: Do European incomes converge?
Your turn: Convergence plus distribution

Chapter 10
Worked problem: Testing the AK Model
Your turn: More on the AK Model

Chapter 11
Worked problem: Who wanted the euro? (part I)
Your turn: Inflation and central bank independence

Chapter 12
Worked problem: Interest rates and inflation
Your turn: Are business cycles out of sync?

Chapter 13
Worked problem: Does central bank independence ease disinflation pains?
Your turn: Real wages and central bank independence

Chapter 14
Worked problem: Is debt causing the deficits?
Your turn: Who wanted the euro? (part II)

Chapter 15
Worked problem: Dutch Beveridge curves
Your turn: Unemployment, unions, replacement rates and taxes