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

（2/19）

Growth Theory in Long Run

Solow growth model (Romer Ch.1)

Lecture

3

3

2

（2/26）

Ramsey model

(Romer Ch.2)

Lecture

3

3

3

（3/4）

OLG model

(Romer Ch.2)

Lecture

3

3

4

（3/11）

Endogenous growth theory (Romer Ch. 3)

Lecture

3

3

5

（3/18）

Introduction to Dynamic Programming

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

1^st Homework

3

3

6

（3/25）

Consumption

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

Lecture

3

3

7

(4/1)

FIRST MID TERM

(Growth theory and DP)

1^st midterm

3

3

8

(4/8)

Consumption

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

1^st Homework Due

3

3

9

(4/15)

Nominal Rigidity

Introduction to Nominal rigidity

(Romer Ch.6)

Lecture

3

3

10

(4/22)

Efficiency Wages

(Romer Ch.10)

2^nd Homework

3

3

11

(4/29)

New Keynesian Model

Classical Monetary Model (Gali Ch.2)

Lecture

3

3

12

(5/6)

Basics of new Keynesian model (Gali Ch.3)

2^nd Homework Due

 3

3

13

(5/13)

SECOND MID TERM

(Consumption and Nominal Rigidity)

2^nd midterm

3^rd Homework

3

3

14

(5/20)

No Class (School holiday)

15

(5/27)

New Keynesian Model

Implication for monetary policy (Gali Ch.4)

Lecture

3

3

16

(6/3)

VAR and its applications

Basics of VAR

(KL Ch.2)

3^rd Homework Due

3

3

17

(6/10)

FINAL EXAM

(New Keynesian Model and VAR)

Final exam

3

18

(6/17)

Final discussion

Final discussion

Lecture

3

3