Handouts

Noah' part

1. Feb.02   Lucas Tree   Handout and Solution

2. Feb.09   Krusell-Smith   Handout and Solution

3. Feb.16   Mortensen-Pissarides   Handout and Solution

4. Feb.23   Ramsey taxation   Handout and Solution

5. Mar.02   Mirrleesian taxation   Handout and Solution

6. Mar.09   Cash-in-advance/Review   Handout and Solution

Enghin's part

1. Mar.16   Log-linearization   Handout and Solution

2. Mar.23   Using Dynare   Handout, Solution, Code and Extra materials

3. Apr.06   Kalman filter   Handout and Code

4. Apr.13   GMM estimator   Handout

5. Apr.20   Firm investments   Handout

6. Apr.27   Bernanke-Gertler   Handout

7. May.05   Review   Handout

Problem Sets

Noah's part

1. Due Feb.14   Problem Set 1   Solution

2. Due Feb.28   Problem Set 2   Solution

3. Due Mar.07   Problem Set 3   Solution

Enghin's part

1. Due Apr.02   Problem Set 1   Solution

2. Due Apr.11   Problem Set 2   Solution

3. Due Apr.16   Problem Set 3   Solution

4. Due Apr.23   Problem Set 4   Solution

Exams

• Noah's final and Solution

• Enghin's final (with solution) and Side calculations

Extra Materials

• Macro sequence summary (based on 2016-17 lectures) by Anson Zhou

• Uzawa's growth theorem, balanced growth path

• Eric Sims' lecture notes on log-linearization, solving linearized models, using dynare, investments and other topics

• Blanchard-Kahn methods

• Kalman Filter

• Epstein-Zin preferences

• Kocherlakota on taxation

Administrative Information

Instructors: Noah Williams and Enghin Atalay

Lectures: Monday and Wednesday 11:00-12:15, Birge B302

Professor office hours: (First half) 14:30-15:30 on Thursday at Sewell Social Science 7434 

TA office hours: 13:15-14:15 on Tuesday (and by appointment) at Sewell Social Science 6473 

Discussion sessions (Friday)

• 13:20-14:10, Sewell Social Sciences 6117

• 14:25-15:15, Sewell Social Sciences 6117

• 15:30-16:20, Sewell Social Sciences 6113

Previous TAs

Eirik Brandsås (Spring 2017)

Anton Babkin (Spring 2016)

Fu Tan (Spring 2015)

Other Resources

• Macro II by Gianluca Violante at Princeton

• Notes on graduate macro theory and computation by Fernandez-Villaverde at UPenn

• Courses by José Víctor Ríos Rull at UPenn

• Courses at MIT OpenCourseware

• IGM Forum

• NBER Summer Institute Lectures