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

(2/23)

Course Introduction

Please watch the lecture Video for Solow Model before lecture 2

Assignment-0 Assigned

3

3

2

(3/2)

a. Review: Solow Model

b. Two Periods Model

Please watch the lecture Video for

Two Periods Model for Endowment Economy before lecture 3

Review Assignment 0 to Understand

1. Stationary Model

2. Balanced Growth Path

3. Assignment 1 Assigned

3

3

3

(3/9)

Two Periods Model  

Please watch the lecture Video for

Two Periods Model for Production Economy before lecture 4

Review Assignment 1 to Understand

1.Endowment Economy

2. Arrow-Debreu Equilibrium & Sequential Market Equilibrium

3. Assignment 2 Assigned

3

3

4

(3/16)

Two Periods Model

Please watch the lecture Video for

Multiple Periods Model for Endowment Economy before lecture 5

Review Assignment 2 to Understand

1.Market Economy

2. Social Planner

3. Assignment 3 Assigned

3

3

5

(3/23)

Multiple Periods Model: Endowment Economy

Please watch the lecture Video for

Multiple Periods Model for Production Economy before lecture 6

Review Assignment 3 to Understand

1. Extension of Periods based on Two Periods Model

2. Expectation

3. Assignment 4 Assigned

3

3

6

(3/30)

Multiple Periods Model: Production Economy

Please watch the lecture Video for

Real Business Cycle Model: Basic before lecture 7

Review Assignment 4 to Understand

1. Production Economy in Multiple Periods Model

2. What’s a DSGE Model

3. Assignment 5 Assigned

7

(4/6)

Real Business Cycle Model

Please watch the lecture Video for

Real Business Cycle Model: Analysis before lecture 8

Review Assignment 5 to Understand

1. What’s Real Business Model

2. How to Solve a DSGE Model

3. Assignment 6 Assigned

4. Practical Problem Set for Midterm Posted

3

3

8

(4/13)

Real Business Cycle Model

No Assigned Video. Please prepare midterm

1. Review Assignment 6 to Understand Calibration, Simulation, Wedge, and Impulse Response Functions

2. Review Practical Problem Set for Midterm

9

(4/20)

Midterm

No Assigned Video. We will review midterm in week 10

3

3

10

(4/27)

Review Midterm and give midterm exam back to students

Please watch the lecture Video for

New Keynesian Model: Basic before lecture 11

1. Help students review midterm

2. Check if they have questions about what they learn so far

3. Assignment 7 Assigned

11

(5/4)

New Keynesian Model

Please watch the lecture Video for

New Keynesian Model: Nominal Rigidity I before lecture 12

Review Assignment 7 to Understand

1. Cashless Model

2. Real Rigidity

3. Assignment 8 Assigned

3

3

12

(5/11)

New Keynesian Model

Please watch the lecture Video for

New Keynesian Model: Nominal Rigidity II before lecture 13

Review Assignment 8 to Understand

1. Nominal Rigidity

2. Classical Phillips Curve: Difference between NK and RBC

3. Assignment 9 Assigned

3

3

13

(5/18)

New Keynesian Model

Please watch the lecture Video for

NK Model and Monetary Policy before lecture 14

Review Assignment 9 to Understand

1. Calvo Pricing

2. NK Phillips Curve

3. Assignment 10 Assigned

3

3

14

(5/25)

New Keynesian Model and VAR

Please watch the lecture Video for

Macroeconometrics: VAR before lecture 15

Review Assignment 10 to Understand

1. Monetary Policy

2. Interest Rate Determinacy

3. Assignment 11 Assigned

3

3

15

(6/1)

Macroeconometrics

Please watch the lecture Video for

Macroeconometrics: Bayesian Method before lecture 16

Review Assignment 11 to Understand

1. Reduced and Structure VAR

2. Kalman Filter and State Space Model

4. Assignment 12 Assigned

3

3

16

(6/8)

Macroeconometrics

Please watch the lecture Video for

Macroeconometrics: Estimation before lecture 17

Review Assignment 12 to Understand

1. Frequentist Approach

2. Bayesian Approach and Bayesian VAR

4. Practical Problem Set for Final Posted

3

3

17

(6/15)

Review Session

No Assigned Video. Please prepare final exam.

Review what we learn through Practical Problem Set for Final.

3

3

18

(6/22)

Final

3

3