He may sound mean in the beginning and you may not understand his lectures clearly but if you do the study guide and hand in the homeworks in time you are set. Very good with grading and very knowledgeable. Easy A or B.

Take him if you're gonna do the work.Take home midterm, and easy final.Just do the work, and take it to final to use, and you'll get an A from the final.A little rude, but does his best to help students.I really haven't seen any professor that care about the future of the students as much as he does.Highly recommended.

best prof. @ City&Econ dept by far. students are lazy, shachmurove is setting/raising the bar for a COLLEGE level course! work hard, get an A, and possibly a full time job at a top I-Bank like 3 students in our class did. mainly thanks to shachmurove's invited lectures by visiting professionals from the Fed, NYSE, JPMorgan who taught practicalities

He is one of my favorite professors ? very knowledgeable about the field and helpful. However, he does require you to work, which many people are not used to at City College. Has a great sense of humor and a pleasure to work with. Definitely take his class if you want to learn!

This is not an easy class, but is extremely interesting and the professor makes every effort to help students obtain a good grade. He is also well informed in regards to his subject matter.

This is not an easy class, but is extremely interesting and the professor makes every effort to help students obtain a good grade. He is also well informed in regards to his subject matter.

the teacher is great as long as you do your work and pay attention in class. Great sense of humor! you'll have a good time in his class while learning everything you need to know about the subject.

If you don't want to learn anything, don't take this professor's class. He challenges students and expects students to challenge themselves. He is well versed in economics, and is very well respected in the academic community. He prepares you for the real world. Absolutely no bull****. Highly recommended

He will help you if you expect to help yourself. Motivates you to seek knowledge and fgrow as an economist

Take him only if you want to learn and strive for more than average. Will help you develop skills needed to succeed in the future

this professor has helped me develop skilled necessary for success in the field. He motivates students to learn and obtain knowledge. If you expect to grow as an economist, while improving my overall skills he is without a doubt highly recommended!

Very intelligent and has the ability to make difficult statistical concepts simple. Has a great sense of humor and makes it fun to learn the material. The exams are multiple-choice which is a plus. Highly recommended!

He has a unique teaching method which requires you to learn on your own, and do assignments which mimic real economist's daily activities. Yes, you might not be the relevance of the HW immediately but in retrospect I can't be any happier to have taken this prof. Lastly, if you don't expect to work hard don't bother taking his course!

he is not as bad as people make him out to be

He is great. teaches you things you can learn on your own and can use outside of class and the future. take him definately.

He's greast.Gets you thinking out of the box and getting involved as a real economist.Highly recommended to take his class but expect ti attend and oarticipate. He's def. one of the best prof. I've had. others that wrote bad comments prob. failed becaused they out in no effort and never attended class.you should be honored to be in his class.

the econ prof at city college. teaches students how to succeed after school. explains questions very clearly. very fair grading. carers very much about the students. teaches difficult concept in ways that can be easily understood by students. uses technology efficiently. encourages students to study to perform well. work hard and u do very well

Good professor, had him for macro. Made info that would normally be dry interesting. Do the work, go to class and you'll be fine.

Great teacher, explain well, goo d sense of humor, extremely available to students, very helpful.

I don't understand why everyone is complaining. He is clear about what he expects from you, everything is on the syllabus. He expects you to follow the syllabus and be responsible for all the material. Just read the book, understand the material, go to class, participation counts, and ace the exams and you're good. Even provides practice exams.

He is very nice professor and well informed about the topic.

This is a really great professor. First, extremely knowledgeable, a veteran in his field. Second, very kind, humane person who truly cares about his students. Third, you learn a great deal by analyzing and presenting on six path-breaking papers in the field. Fourth if you do the work, he will award you a good grade you deserve, very fair and nice.

You learn absolutely nothing from his class. He drones on and on like a robot. The class started out as 35 kids ended up with 10. Everyone scared he's too harsh. He don't even read his papers. Light work don't be fooled by the grade.

Prof. Shachmurove is an great professor. He is knowledgeable and always willing to help his students. His class is interesting and insightful. I would recommend his class to anyone interested in learning economics.

Prof. Yochanan Shachmurove gave us a good lecture in the class. The class is really insightful and we have learned many things in his class!

I took international trade with him. He has a very good and broad knowledge of the subject, so in addition to the course materials, you can discuss current affairs related to international trade. He is a kind person and you are also welcome to ask questions in the class, which makes the class more active. I enjoyed the course and learned a lot.

This is an excellent professor. He exposes you to latest in economic research and lets you write book reports and papers summarizing what you have learned. What more could you ask for? He has reams of experience in international and has been published in leading journals. For grading, it is really entirely up to you as to how much you have done.

He is a genius. It was really a great great honor that I had a course with him. Best teacher i have ever had.

I have some general knowledge about Economics before I joined his class and without doubt he is an expert on his field of studies. Some students may find his teaching method as unusual like writing reports, group projects or presentations but I am sure it is very helpful as Economics is not an easy subject and you have to immerse yourself into it.

Prof Shachmurove is a great prof ! Took him for International Economics and learned a lot. You are grades solely on 3 exams, he gives practice exams for each exam so youre prepared for the actual exam. You are required to do 2 presentations , not graded, however good for your own knowledge because it forces you to learn about someone / something

Reading is a must in the class. The tests rely on it. The class is test heavy but everything is provided in the slides and the book in my case (superfreakonomics, which was actually interesting and quick to read). He is a little tough on students but is very knowledgable. I found him to be funny and blunt. I got an A in the class.

Professor Shachmurove is very straightforward. Do the work and you will pass. There is 2 powerpoint projects and 3 exams. He grades according to class average.

I had Prof. Shachmurove for 2 courses this semester and I learned a lot from research on my own. He prepares you to research the way an economist should, so I understand why he assigns long projects. Do not be fooled by the other bad reviews of him! He is extremely caring, he will only treat you the way you deserve to be treated if you're lazy!

No one fails in his class, it is curve based. He gives 3 exams, 2 40 slide powerpoint projects and in between assignments based on the textbook. It is a lot of work but he assigns it to prepare you for work in a real world setting where you have to do research and presentations. The exams mainly determines your grade but so does participation.

He's a good professor. Very knowledgeable the course. You will find yourself doing homework that you will find silly but its a easy going class. He makes it clear what he expects from the students.

JUST WORK FOR YOUR GRADE AND HE WILL SEE THAT AND GRADE ACCORDINGLY. HE IS NOT A BAD PROFESSOR AT ALL,.

I took Prof. Shachmurove's intermediate macroeconomics class as an undergrad on Spring 2015 and got an A. His class was challenging but that is why I had the motivation to study hard because I was determined to ace the class. Now I am a graduate student pursuing MA on economics and I would love to take his class again if that's possible.

Our class was smaller, so participation and being prepared mattered. His class was challenging, but that is why I had the motivation to work hard. The course was also at a Master's level course, so reading and work are expected. He is very knowledgeable in Internation Economics and so it's important to ask questions to get the most of the class.

Our class was smaller, so participation and being prepared mattered. His class is flexible and not only care about the test book. The course was a Master's level course, it includes a lot of reading material . He is very knowledgeable so if you keep asking you should know a lot!

He's a genuinely caring Professor that wants you to learn. We read a lot of Econ papers throughout the course, which is a great opportunity to learn about how research is done on a graduate level. The lectures at times are monotone since he reads off the slides, but if you learn the material better on your own like I do, it's not an issue.

Curve came from Mars. 50 point curve.