Syllabus
Updated A.Y. 2015-2016
Macroeconomics 1
Robert Waldmann
textbook
Advanced Macroeconomics by David Romer (1996)
(McGraw-Hill : New York, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Milan etc.)
Growth
Topic 1) Solow Model Review
Chapter 1 pp. 5-33
Topic 2) The Ramsey Cass Koopmans Model I
Chapter 2 pp. 38-52
Topic 3) Ramsey Cass Koopmans Model II
Chapter 2 pp. 52-72
Topic 4) The Romer 86 model
Chapter 3 pp. 116-117.
Topic 5) The Romer 90 model I
Chapter 3 pp 95-110.
Topic 6) The Romer 90 model II
Chapter 3 pp 111-116, pp 118-126
Topic 7) Human Capital and Growth
Chapter 3 pp 126-140.
Consumption and Investment
Topic 8) Stochastic implications of the Permanent Income Hypothesis.
Chapter 7 pp. 310-328
Topic 9) The overlapping generations model with money
Chapter 2 pp. 72-88
Topic 10) Fixed Capital Investment
Chapter 8 pp. 345-364
Topic 11) Inventory investment
Blinder, A "Inventories and the Structure of Macro Models," American Economic Review vol 71 pp 11-16 (May 1981).
Topic 12) Credit Rationing
Chapter 8 pp. 369-384.