Semester | Spring Semester, 2021 | ||
Department | PhD Program of Economics, First Year PhD Program of Economics, Second Year | ||
Course Name | Macroeconomic Theory(IV) | ||
Instructor | CHEN SHU-HENG | ||
Credit | 3.0 | ||
Course Type | Required | ||
Prerequisite |
Course Objective |
Course Description |
Course Schedule |
General Specification: Weekly Progress Week One (Lectured on Feb 22, 2021) Week Two (Lectured on March 1, 2021) Week Three (Lectured on March 8, 2021) Week Four (Lectured on March 15, 2021) Week Five (Lectured on March 22, 2021) Week Six (Lectured on March 29, 2021) Week Seven (Lectured on April 5, 2021) Week Eight (Lectured on April 12, 2021) Week Nine (April 19, 2021) Week Ten (Lectured on April 26, 2021) Week Eleven (Lectured on May 3, 2021) Week Twelve (Lectured on May 10, 2021) Week Thirteen (Lectured on May 17, 2021) Week Fourteen(Lectured on May 24, 2021) Week Fifteen (Lectured on May 31, 2021) Week Sixteen (Lectured on June 7, 2021) Week Seventeen (Lectured on June 14, 2021) Week Eighteen (Lectured on June 21, 2021):
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Teaching Methods |
Teaching Assistant |
The teaching assistant shall help the instructor to supervise and assist students' term project progress. The assistant shall assist the instructor in classroom preparation, such as the projector, internet connection, etc. The assistant shall help the instructor to grade the term project and help answer various administration problem associated with the class, such as classroom |
Requirement/Grading |
The course will be taught in English. The course will proceed in lectures. All lectures are prepared in power points, and the students will be able to get these power points before or after the classes. Students are encouraged to use skype to interact with the instructor outside the classes. The students have to read the materials, mainly, the ppt of the lecture, in advance. The lecture will only highlight the ppt, but will not follow the ppt. During the class, the students are invited to ask questions based on their readings of the preparatory materials and are also required to answer questions posed to them by the instructor. 30% of the score will be based on the in-class interacting performance of the student. The evaluation of the student performance will be based on a term project (20%), a midterm exam (20%), a final exam (30%), and in-class interactions (30%). For the term project, the student needs to choose a broad subject related to the class, and write an overview essay on it, for example, Chen, Chang, and Du (2012) and Chen and Gostoli (2014). These two are just examples to show how the term project looks like, but the student does not have to choose so wide and write so extensively. To choose a subject in a proper way, the Chen, S. H., Chang, C. L., & Du, Y. R. (2012). Agent-based economic models and econometrics. The Knowledge Engineering Review, 27(2), 187-219.
Di Guilmi, C., Gallegati, M., & Landini, S. (2017). Interactive macroeconomics: stochastic aggregate dynamics with heterogeneous and interacting agents. Cambridge University Press.
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Textbook & Reference |
Chen, Shu-Heng (2015), Agent-Based Computational Economics: How the idea originated and where it is going, Routledge.
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Urls about Course |
http://www2.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/ace.htm |
Attachment |
reading_list__macro_2021.pdf syllabus_macro_4_2021.pdf |