Macroeconomic Theory
Spring 2020
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- March 16: Setting up the imperfect competition model
- March 30: Solving the imperfect competition model
- April 1: Coordination failures
- April 3: Nominal and real price rigidities and firms' price-setting decision
- April 6: Romer's "quantitative examples" and dynamic price setting
- April 8: Fischer's predetermined-price model
- April 10: Taylor's fixed-price model and Calvo's probabilistic price adjustment
- April 13: Models of inflation inertia
- April 15: Introduction to unemployment
- April 17: Dynamic programming in Shapiro-Stiglitz model
- April 20: Solving the Shapiro-Stiglitz model
- April 22: Search and matching model of the labor market
- April 24: Introduction to capital theory and investment
- April 27: Adjustment costs and the q theory of investment
- April 29: Equilibrium in the q model and other investment topics