EC9A2: Advanced Macroeconomic Analysis
Roberto Pancrazi
Module Leader
Roger Farmer
Module Lecturer
Thijs Van Rens
Module Lecturer
Principal Aims
EC9A2-35 Advanced Macroeconomic Analysis
Principal Learning Outcomes
Subject Knowledge and Understanding:...have a comprehensive overview and a sound understanding of Macroeconomic Theory. The teaching and learning methods that enable students to achieve this learning outcome are: Lectures, seminars and background reading. The summative assessment methods that measure the achievement of this learning outcome are: Assessments.
Subject Knowledge and Understanding:...develop a critical knowledge of recent research in some key areas of macroeconomics. The teaching and learning methods that enable students to achieve this learning outcome are: Lectures, seminars and background reading. The summative assessment methods that measure the achievement of this learning outcome are: Assessments.
Key Skills:...to pursue their own research agenda in the field. The teaching and learning methods that enable students to achieve this learning outcome are: Lectures, seminars and background reading. The summative assessment methods that measure the achievement of this learning outcome are: Assessments.
Syllabus
The module will typically cover the following topics:
• Consumption and Investment. Topics: Intertemporal decisions, PIH, LCH, consumption under uncertainty, CEQ, CCAPM, equity premium puzzle, precautionary savings, liquidity constraints, Tobin’s q-theory, irreversible investment. Methods: Dynamic optimization under uncertainty (optimal control, dynamic programming, stochastic dynamic programming) in discrete time.
• Economic Growth. Topics: Growth accounting, neoclassical growth model, endogenous growth, poverty traps. Methods: Dynamic optimization in discrete or in continuous time, phase diagrams, OLG models.
• Business Cycles. Topics: RBC models, determination of employment and real wages, welfare costs of fluctuations, taxation and efficiency, new Keynesian models, monetary policy. Methods: Calibration and simulation, solving rational expectations models, Blanchard-Kahn conditions, Dynare, structural VARs.
• Markets with Frictions. Topics: Labour market frictions and unemployment, financial frictions.
Context
- Optional Module
- L1PL - Year 1
Assessment
- Assessment Method
- Coursework (100%)
- Coursework Details
- In class test (50%) , In class test (50%)
- Exam Timing
- N/A
Exam Rubric
Time Allowed: 3 Hours
Read all instructions carefully- and read through the entire paper at least once before you start entering your answers.
Answer ALL questions.
Answer each whole question in a separate booklet.
Approved scientific (non-graphical) pocket calculators are allowed.
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