Calendar


SES # TOPICS KEY DATES
1

Part 1

Stylized facts of economic growth and development

Part 2

Introduction to the Solow growth model

Problem set 1 out
2 Introduction to the Solow growth model (cont.)
3

Part 1

The Solow model and the data; growth accounting, levels accounting, and the facts

Part 2

Fundamental causes of income differences

4 Foundations of Neoclassical growth; representative customers, optimal and competitive allocations, welfare theorems Problem set 1 due one day after Ses #4 and problem set 2 out
5 Neoclassical growth
6 Overlapping generations and dynamic efficiency
7 Neoclassical endogenous growth: capital accumulation and externalities Problem set 2 due one day after Ses #7
8 Human capital and growth Problem set 3 out
9 Endogenous growth with expanding input varieties
10 Interdependences: technology diffusion, trade and the world income distribution in an open economy Problem set 3 due
11 Schumpeterian models Problem set 4 out
12 Directed technical change: endogenous skill-bias and endogenous labor-augmenting technological change Problem set 4 due three days after Ses #12
13 Optimal and competitive growth under uncertainty Final exam seven days after Ses #13