Economics 899: Topic in Macroeconomics


Syllabus

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Slides

          Topic 1: Income and Consumption Inequality, Time Use and Home Production. Last updated 9/10/14.
                    Notes on computing the log likelihood of the model in Benhabib, Rogerson, and Wright (1991).
          Topic 2: Regional Economics. Last updated 9/22/14.
          Topic 3: Structural Transformation. Last updated 10/15/14.
                    Notes on Kongsamut, Rebelo, and Xie (2001) and Ngai and Pissarides (2007).
          Topic 4: Firm Dynamics. Last updated 11/19/14.
          Topic 5: The Aggregate Importance of Firm/Industry-Specific Shocks. Last updated 11/19/14.

Problem Sets

          Problem Set 1, due September 19. .do file related to Problem 1. Some notes on problem 2, part A.
          Problem Set 2, due October 2. Python file and .do file related to Problem 1.
          Problem Set 3, due October 20.
          Problem Set 4, due November 12. .m file related to Problem 3.
          Problem Set 5, due December 3.