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Macroeconomics

Lecturers: Yunus Aksoy and Gylfi Zoega
Classes: Ivan Petrella

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Part I: Yunus Aksoy/ Ivan Petrella (Weeks 1-4, 10)

Notes
Data, Parameter, Model Uncertainty
Campbell example
rbc files 1, 2, 3
nkm slides

Reading Material: Weeks 1-4, 10

OECD Business Cycle Paper	Blanchard&Kiyotaki (1987)	Orphanides (2003)	Fuhrer
Deaton (1991)	Clarida et al. (1999)	Batini (1999)	Aksoy&Piskorski (2006)
Life of Charles Ponzi	Fuhrer (1997)	Sack&Wieland	Kuttner&Robinson (2010)
King&Rebelo (1999)	Fuhrer&Rudebusch (2004)	Levin&Williams (2003)	Bernanke et al. (1999) NEW
Uhlig Toolkit	Brainard (1967)	Smets&Wouters	Aksoy&Basso&Coto-Martinez (2013)

Lucas (1980)

Software Download: Dynare

NEW: Easter Assignment

Part II: Gylfi Zoega/ Ivan Petrella (Weeks 5-9)

Week 1
Ramsey Model
Week 2
Weeks 3-4 (revised 06/03/13)
Week 5

Readings:

Andersen (2010)	Van Ours (2010)	Blanchard	Nickell (2005)
Bell (2010)	Wall - Zoega (2002)	Campbell	Prescott (2002)
Gatti (2010)	Zoega (2010)	Hall and Jones (1999)	Rheinhart
Ijungqvist (2010)	Alesina (2005)	Lane	Gordon
Nickell (2010)	Blanchard (2004)	Nelson and Phelps (1966)	Diamond and Dybvig
Alogoskoufis	Iceland Crisis

Old Easter Assignments:
Easter Assignment 2006
Easter Assignment 2007 Model answers for YA part
Easter Assignment 2008
Easter Assignment 2009 Model answers for YA part

Easter Assignment 2012

Sketch Answer for 2013 Corrected answer for home production question YA part. Thanks to Ahmer and Stephen for pointing out the error.

Sketch Answers to 2007 Exam for YA part
Skeych Answers to 2009 Exam

Sketch Answers to 2011 Exam for YA part

Sketch Answers to 2012 Exam for YA/IP parts (UPDATED)

Sketch Answers (GZ) (NEW)

Note: All past exams are posted on the library website.

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