Dynamic Macroeconomics
  • 1. Purpose
    • 1.1. Expectations
  • 2. A Quick Tutorial in Python Tools
    • 2.1. Getting started
    • 2.2. Data Types
    • 2.3. Python Lists, Indexing and Slicing
    • 2.4. Python dictionaries
    • 2.5. NumPy and SciPy libraries
    • 2.6. Plotting with MATPLOTLIB
    • 2.7. Useful Python and Numpy functions
    • 2.8. Conditionals
    • 2.9. Loops
    • 2.10. Statistics
    • 2.11. More Python resources for the economist
  • 3. A Brief History
  • 4. Economies as Dynamical Systems
    • 4.1. Reduced-form representation
    • 4.2. Recursive maps by example
    • 4.3. Linear stochastic difference equation systems
    • 4.4. Markov Chains
    • 4.5. Postscript
  • 5. Solow-Swan: Before and After
    • 5.1. Empirical Regularities
    • 5.2. Population Growth
    • 5.3. Decentralized Economy
    • 5.4. Exogenous Growth
    • 5.5. Golden Rule
  • 6. Optimal Growth and General Equilibrium
    • 6.1. Digging deeper
    • 6.2. Ramsey-Cass-Koopman’s Economy
    • 6.3. Solving The RCK Economy
    • 6.4. Competitive Equilibrium
    • 6.5. Recursive Competitive Equilibrium
  • 7. Dynamic Programming
    • 7.1. Infinite Horizon Program
    • 7.2. Example
    • 7.3. Stochastic Dynamic Programs
  • 8. Individual Risk, Insurance and Complete Markets
    • 8.1. Reading List
    • 8.2. Introduction
    • 8.3. Timing and market structure
    • 8.4. Notion of an equilibrium
    • 8.5. Preferences and endowments
    • 8.6. Social planner’s problem
    • 8.7. Arrow-Debreu competitive equilibrium
    • 8.8. Sequential markets and Arrow securities
    • 8.9. Recursive competititive equilibria
    • 8.10. Asset pricing with Markovian economies
    • 8.11. Incomplete markets and asset pricing
  • 9. Real Business Cycle
    • 9.1. Reading List
    • 9.2. Part I
    • 9.3. Introduction
    • 9.4. Endogenous aggregate state variables
    • 9.5. Pareto optimality in the stochastic growth model
    • 9.6. Competitive equilibrium in the stochastic growth model
    • 9.7. A recursive stochastic growth model
    • 9.8. Part II
    • 9.9. An example recursive economy
    • 9.10. Appendix A
    • 9.11. Linear Stochastic Difference Equations
    • 9.12. Setup
    • 9.13. Moments of the LSDE
    • 9.14. Impulse response functions
    • 9.15. Forecasting
    • 9.16. Real Business Cycle References
  • 10. Keynesian Business Cycles and Inflation
    • 10.1. Introduction
    • 10.2. A simple version of the NK model
    • 10.3. Departure from fundamental welfare theorems
    • 10.4. Specifying the interest rate process
    • 10.5. Numerical solution and policy simulation
    • 10.6. Effect of inflation on relative price dispersion across industries
    • 10.7. Keynesian Business Cycles and Inflation References
  • 11. Search Matching
    • 11.1. Introduction
    • 11.2. The McCall one-sided search model
    • 11.3. A simple two-sided search model
    • 11.4. Appendix A
    • 11.5. Well-defined probability measures
    • 11.6. Search Matching References
 
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