Week (date)
Topics
Content and Reading Assignment
Teaching Activities
W1 (2/21)
Introduction
Lecture
W2 (2/28)
228 Holiday
W3 (3/07)
Dynamic optimization
[L&S]
W4 (3/14)
Dynamic competitive equilibrium: sequential method
W5 (3/21)
Dynamic competitive equilibrium: recursive method
W6 (3/28)
Overlapping generation (OLG) model
W7 (4/04)
Holiday
W8 (4/11)
Incomplete market model
W9 (4/18)
Midterm
W10 (4/25)
Labor search model
W11 (5/02)
W12 (5/09)
The fiscal policy: heterogenous agent
W13 (5/16)
The New Keynesian model
[G]
W14 (5/23)
The monetary policy
W15 (5/30)
W16 (6/06)
Final exam
W17 (6/11)
Capstone self-learning
W18 (6/18)
Evaluation:
Participation, and discussion (20%)
Midterm (40%)
Final exam (40%)
[L&S]: Lars Ljungqvist and Thomas Sargent (2018) Recursive Macroeconomic Theory, 4th edition
[G]: Jordi Gali (2015) Monetary Policy, Inflation and the Business Cycle, 2nd edition