ECON PhD course: Macroeconomics
Aarhus BSS Graduate School at Aarhus University
The aim of this course is to provide a rigorous graduate-level introduction to macroeconomics. It focusses on fundamental theories, with a view to establishing their key insights and motivating their quantitative application. A tentative list of topics is provided below.
- A brief history of macroeconomics and its methodological approaches
- Long-run growth: Stylized facts and neoclassical theory
- Dynamic Optimization
- Dynamic Competitive Equilibrium theory and its key insights
- Consumption and risk-sharing
- Efficiency
- Infinite vs. finite horizons (Overlapping-generation (OLG) models)
- Introduction to business cycle macroeconomics and key theories, such as
- Real business cycle models
- Models with nominal rigidities (New Keynesian)