This course contains a one hour recitation session each week. The recitation session is not presented in the course calendar.
Course calender.
| Lec # |
Topics |
KEY DATES |
| Unit 1 - Economic Growth |
| 1 |
Introduction |
|
| 2-3 |
Solow Growth Model |
Problem set 1 out in lecture 3 |
| 4-5 |
TFP and Economic Growth |
Problem set 1 due in lecture 5 |
| 6-7 |
New Growth Theory |
Problem set 2 out in lecture 7 |
| 8-9 |
Knowledge and Economic Growth |
Problem set 2 due in lecture 9 |
| 10 |
First Exam |
|
| Unit 2 - Savings |
| 11-12 |
Representative Consumer Model |
Problem set 3 out in lecture 12 |
| 13-14 |
Overlapping Generations Model |
Problem set 3 due in lecture 14
Problem set 4 out in lecture 14
Rough draft of paper due in lecture 14 |
| 15-16 |
Government Policy, Savings, and Social Security |
Problem set 4 due in lecture 16 |
| 17 |
International Comparisons |
|
| 18 |
Second Exam |
|
| Unit 3 - Exchange Rates and Wage Setting |
| 19-20 |
Mundell-Fleming Model |
Problem set 5 out in lecture 19
Final version of paper due in lecture 20 |
| 21 |
Great Depression, Bretton Woods and Today |
Problem set 5 due
Problem set 6 out |
| 22-23 |
Unemployment Then and Now |
Problem set 6 due in lecture 22 |
| 24-25 |
The International Economy |
|
| 26 |
Third Exam |
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