Economics 899: Topic in Macroeconomics
Syllabus
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Slides and Notes
Topic 1: Structural Transformation
Slides on Income and Consumption Inequality, Time Use. Last updated 9/2/15.
Slides on Kaldor/Kuznets Facts; Kongsamut et al.; Herrendorf et al.; Oberfield and Raval; and Karabarbounis and Neiman. Last updated 9/21/15.
Notes on Kongsamut, Rebelo, and Xie (2001) and Ngai and Pissarides (2007). Last updated 9/15/15.
Slides on Young (2015). Last updated 8/17/15.
Topic 2: Micro Shocks and Aggregate Fluctuations
Slides on Gabaix (2011) and Gabaix and Carvalho (2013). Last updated 10/1/15.
Slides on Foerster et al. (2011). Last updated 10/11/15.
Problem Sets
Problem Set 1, due September 8. .do file related to Problem 1. Partial solutions to Problem 1: .do file and graphs.
Problem Set 2, due September 13. Materials related to Problem 1.
Problem Set 3, due September 20. Rough sketch of the solution of Problem 2.
Problem Set 4, due September 27.
Problem Set 5, due October 4.
Problem Set 6, due October 11. .do file and .csv file related to Problem 1.
Problem Set 7, due October 18.