Advanced Macroeconomics workshop

Course Description

This course is designed for PhD students in their 2nd year and above who are thinking about writing a dissertation in macroeconomics. The course will provide the students with research methods for finding a PhD topic as well as for developing their preliminary ideas for their dissertation topic. The course will involve presentations not only from faculty members but also from students, allowing them to obtain direct feedback and direction for future research from all the faculty members in macroeconomics. The course will also provide students with reviews of the most important literature through discussions and presentations by the faculty members of seminal papers in the cutting edge research areas in macroeconomics. Some examples of these areas are consumer bankruptcy, Housing Markets, Social Security Reform, Health Care reform and Tax reform. The course will deal with stochastic, dynamic general equilibrium models which do not have a close form solution. Students will have to use these models to study their question of interest and the course will also provide them with direction as to which numerical methods are more appropriate to solve their particular problems. 0-3 credits Prerequisite: Graduate Standing in the Economics department or permission of the Graduate Director. Grading Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)

Code

ECO 615

Credits

0-3

Subject

ECO