Schedule721

Introduction

• Jan-8 (Thu): Class Introduction, Here we talk about methods: how to set up a general equilibrium model and characterize its equilibrium.

Overlapping Generations

• Jan-13 (Tue): Model
• Jan-15 (Thu): OLG model (continued)
• Jan-20 (Tue): Dynamics and steady state, PS1, due TBA (best to email pdf file; by end of day),
• Jan-22 (Thu): Dynamics and steady state (continued)

Money

• Jan-27 (Tue): Money as a bubble, PS2, due TBA
• Jan-29 (Thu): Money as a bubble (continued)
• Feb-3 (Tue): Cash in advance models, PS4, due TBA
• Feb-5 (Thu): Optimal control
• Feb-10 (Tue): Optimal control (contd.)
• Feb-12 (Thu): Money in the utility function, PS5, due TBA

Endogenous Growth

• Feb-17 (Tue): Endogenous growth: AK model, Increasing varieties
• Feb-19 (Thu): Increasing varieties, part II
• Feb-24 (Tue): Knowledge spillovers and scale effects, PS6, due TBA
• Feb-26 (Thu): Midterm exam
• Mar-3 (Tue): Quality ladders
• Mar-5 (Thu): Quality ladders (contd.)
• Mar-10 (Tue): Quality ladders with firm dynamics

Heterogeneous Agents and Inequality

• Mar-12 (Thu): Benchmark: Huggett 1996
• Mar-17 (Tue): Spring Break
• Mar-19 (Thu): Spring Break
• Mar-24 (Tue): Entrepreneurship
• Mar-26 (Thu): Other models of wealth distribution (in brief)

Frictional Labor Markets

• Mar-31 (Tue): McCall Model
• Apr-2 (Thu): Wellness day
• Apr-7 (Tue): Mortenson-Pissarides Model
• Apr-9 (Thu): Mortenson-Pissarides Model (contd.)