Economics 810: Advanced Macroeconomic Theory


Syllabus

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Slides and Notes

      Topic 1: Structural Transformation
            Slides on Income and Consumption Inequality, Time Use. Last updated 1/15/17.
            Slides on Kaldor/Kuznets Facts; Kongsamut et al.; Herrendorf et al.; Oberfield and Raval; and Karabarbounis and Neiman. Last updated 2/5/17.
            Notes on Kongsamut, Rebelo, and Xie (2001) and Ngai and Pissarides (2007). Last updated 1/29/17.
      Topic 2: Occupational Structure
            Slides. Last updated 2/19/17.
      Topic 3: Using regional variation to learn about business cycles
            Slides. Last updated 12/29/16.

Problem Sets

          Problem Set 1, due January 25. .do file related to Problem 1.
          Problem Set 2, due February 1. .zip file related to Problem 1.
          Problem Set 3, due February 6. Solution file
          Problem Set 4, due February 15.
          Problem Set 5, due February 22.
          Problem Set 6, due March 1. .py file and .do file related to Problem 1.
          Problem Set 7, due March 15.