Economics 8344

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Professors German Cubas and Bent Sorensen

Macro III (macro topics)

Spring 2023

Professors Cubas and Sorensen will co-teach the class, meaning that we aim to both be in most classes.

Syllabus

Tips on Presentations

Scheduling: Classes to be rescheduled: TBA if any.

Tentative Schedule, to be updated as we go along. Some topics may take more time than indicated and some less. The structure of the class will be similar to the although we will take in some new topics.

  • 1/18 Introduction
  • 1/23 Bent talks about PIH and the Buffer-stock model
  • 1/25 Bent talks about consumption model with housing and other extensions and
  • 1/30 Bent talks more on consumption and more theoretical
  • 2/1 Bent finish (briefly) talking about MPCs Nygaard, Sorensen, and Wang (J. Econ Dynamics&Control 2022)
    Then we move on to the influential paper on risk sharing

Course structure :

We will have some homeworks followed by in-depth student presentations (a full class each, but we will help you) and a final project.

We will post notes and links as we go along

Homework 1: Data homework. Due 2/5/2023