Teaching

This is an advanced course in Industrial Organization. This course is designed to bridge between theory and empirics. In this course, our goal is to understand how empirical models in the structural IO literature arise naturally from the theoretical literature. We will also place special emphasis in learning how to identify and formulate economic questions. With this aim, the course will be structured around frontier topics in Industrial Organization.

This course is the first section of the macroeconomics sequence at CEMFI. The goal of the course is to learn about some seminal theoretical works in macroeconomics, and to confront them to the data. The material will be presented primarily from a theoretical point of view, with a secondary focus on empirical topics. As an introduction, we will devote the first three lectures to reviewing optimization methods in continuous time, which will provide you with the tools necessary to solve the models that we will see later in the course.