Sharif University of Technology

Graduate School of Management and Economics

Macroeconomics II

Instructor:

Seyed Ali Madanizadeh

 

Level

Graduate

 

Course Description

The course is the second master level course in Macroeconomics.

It is centered on different main topics:

Representative Agent Models, Advanced Economic Growthو Real Business cycles, Fiscal policy, Monetary Policy, Open Macro.

Lectures

Sun and Tue 16:30-18:00

 

Office Hours

by appointment

 

 

Syllabus

 

Syllabus

 

 

Reading List

 

Reading List

 

 

Lecture Notes

 

 

Introduction:

Productivity

 

Macroeconomic Dynamics:

Robinson Crusoe

Representative Agent Model

 

 

Endogenous Growth:

Human Capital (Lucas 88)

R&D (Romer 90)

 

 

Business Cycles:

RBC

 

Fiscal Policy:

Taxes

Public Debt

 

Money:

1_Introduction to Money

2_Introduction to Money_Iran

3_Inventory Model

4_GE with Money

5_Price implications of money supply

6_Seigniorage

7_Catastrophic Date

8_CIA and Optimal Monetary Policy

9_Phillips curve and ASAD curves

10_Discretion vs Rule

11_Time Inconsistency

12_Central Bank Independence

13_Central Banking

13_Central Banking_2

14_Inflation Targeting

15_MIU

 

Problem Sets

 

Problem Bank

PS1

PS2

PS3

PS4

PS5

PS6

PS7

PS8

PS9

PS10

PS11

PS12

PS13

 

Projects

 

Project

 

Workshops

 

Matlab

Stata

Dynare

Latex

Academic Writing