週次

Week

課程主題

Topic

課程內容與指定閱讀

Content and Reading Assignment

教學活動與作業

Teaching Activities and Homework

學習投入時間

Student workload expectation

課堂講授

In-class Hours

課程前後

Outside-of-class Hours

1

Growth Theory in Long Run

Solow growth model (Romer Ch.1)

Lecture

3

3

2

Ramsey model

(Romer Ch.2)

Lecture

3

3

3

OLG model

(Romer Ch.2)

Lecture

3

3

4

National Holiday (10/10)

5

Introduction to Dynamic Programming

Numerical example of dynamic programming (AC Ch.1-2)

1^st Homework

3

3

6

Consumption

Applications in consumption: Equity premium puzzle, Random walk hypothesis `(Romer Ch.8)

Lecture

3

3

7

Applications in consumption 2: Durables (Romer Ch.8)

Lecture

3

3

8

FIRST MID TERM

1^st midterm

3

9

Nominal Rigidity

Review of IS-LM and AD-AS models (Romer Ch.6)

Lecture

3

3

10

Efficiency Wages

(Romer Ch.10)

2^nd Homework

3

3

11

Review of HW2

Lecture

3

3

12

New Keynesian Model

Classical Monetary Model (Gali Ch.2)

Lecture

3

3

13

SECOND MID TERM

2^nd midterm

3

3

14

New Keynesian Model

Basics of new Keynesian model 2 (Gali Ch.3)

3^rd Homework

3

3

15

Implication for monetary policy (Gali Ch.4)

Lecture

3

3

16

VAR and its applications

Basics of VAR

Lecture

3

3

17

FINAL EXAM

Final exam

3

18

Final discussion

Final discussion

Lecture

3

3