Economics 810: Advanced Macroeconomic Theory

Syllabus

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Slides and Notes

      Topic 1: Micro Shocks and Aggregate Fluctuations
            Slides on Gabaix (2011) and Gabaix and Carvalho (2013). Last updated 12/28/17.
            Slides on Foerster et al. (2011) and Atalay (2017). Last updated 2/7/18.

      Topic 2: Occupational Structure
            Slides on Krusell et al. (2000), Autor, Levy, and Murnane (2003), and Autor and Dorn (2013). Last updated 2/12/18.
            Slides on Burstein, Morales, and Vogel (2016) and Firpo, Fortin, and Lemieux (2014). Last updated 12/31/17.
            Slides on Atalay et al. (2017). Last updated 9/27/17.
            Slides on some of the text tools used in Atalay et al. (2017). Last updated 2/5/18.

Problem Sets

          Problem Set 1, due January 29. .do file and .csv file related to the problem set.
          Problem Set 2, due February 14. .dta file related to the problem set.
          Problem Set 3, due March 7 (originally February 26) .