Miles Cahill

Exploring the Solow balanced growth model part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Teaching with Spreadsheets:Examples
This Excel spreadsheet assignment bring students through a process of exploring numerical example of the Solow neoclassical balanced growth model. It is appropriate for use in macroeconomics courses at all levels, including intermediate, principles and electives.

Estimating Okun's Law part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Teaching with Spreadsheets:Examples
This Principles or intermediate level macroeconomics Excel spreadsheet assignment shows students how to estimate the Okun's Law parameter and the potential GDP growth rate.

Using the Taylor rule to analyze monetary policy part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Teaching with Spreadsheets:Examples
This Excel spreadsheet exercise has students replicate the Taylor (1993) paper which first presented the Taylor rule for setting the federal funds monetary policy target. Students may then analyze recent monetary policy history.

Miles Cahill part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:About this Project:Project Participants
Personal academic profile page for Miles Cahill, an associate professor of economics at College of the Holy Cross, detailing his background, research on spreadsheet use in economics education, publications, and teaching in macroeconomics and financial markets.

Teaching with Spreadsheets part of Pedagogy in Action:Library:Teaching with Spreadsheets
This educational resource page from the SERC Pedagogy in Action library explores the pedagogical use of spreadsheets in teaching, detailing their benefits for engaging students with real-world data, enhancing quantitative reasoning, and supporting interactive learning across disciplines, while offering practical guidance on implementation, examples, and references for educators.