STEG Virtual Macro Development Course
Lecture 2: Income Accounting
Industry Dynamics, PhD field course
Syllabus Spring 2020
Class I: Numerical methods.
Application, by Haimeng Zhang
Practice exercise
Class II: Entrepreneurship and occupational choice,
and financial frictions.
Homework I
Class III: Entry, exit and firms' life cycle.
Class IV: Production function estimation and productivity decomposition.
Homework II
Class V: Firm dynamics in open economy, and the role of geography.
Class VI: Endogenous productivity choice, stationary economy - with long run growth.
Class VII: Misallocation, static.
Class VIII: Misallocation, dynamic.
Class IX: cancelled.
Class X-XI: Labor market misallocation, technology and occupations.
Class XII: Technology and skill allocations.
Class XIII: Transitions and skill allocation.
Class XIV: Plants in Space.
Macroeconomics, PhD core
Syllabus Spring 2021
Class I: Dynamic optimization (Kuhn-Tucker theorem). Welfare theorems.
Class II: One sector growth model, steady state
Class III: One sector growth model, dynamics
Class IV: One sector growth model, data and measurement
Class V: Competitive equilibrium
Class VI: Public debt and taxation
Class VII: Heterogeneity
Class VIII: Long run growth
Class IX: Human capital
Class X: Endogenous growth
Class XI-XII: Variety innovation models
Class I: Dynamic optimization (Kuhn-Tucker theorem). Welfare theorems.
Class II: One sector growth model, steady state
Class III: One sector growth model, dynamics
Class IV: One sector growth model, data and measurement
Class V: Competitive equilibrium
Class VI: Public debt and taxation
Class VII: Heterogeneity
Class VIII: Long run growth
Class IX: Human capital
Class X: Endogenous growth
Class XI-XII: Variety innovation models
