PhD Macroeconomics

FIVE CANONICAL MODELS

Spring 2019

Time: Tuesdays, 2:00 - 4:00, Room 745

8 January The Classical Optimal Growth Model
calculus of variations, phase diagrams, analytical solution of pairs of linear first-order difference equations		 Lecture 1  
15 January

Two Representative Agent Models with Money in the Utility Function
a small open economy model
Sidrauski's model
optimal control theory

 Lecture 2  
22 January Brock's Discrete-Time Representative Agent Model
necessary and sufficient conditions for optimality		 Lecture 3  
29 January The Overlapping Generations Model
Shell's economics of infinity
Wallace's model of fiat money: existence and optimality
Karaken and Wallace's model of exchange rate indeterminacy		 Lecture 4  
5 February Time-Invariant Decision Rules and Dynamic Programming
Bellman's equation
Blackwell optimal policies		 Lecture 5  

 

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