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Selected Teaching Materials Taught at Banking Training Centre (BTC), Nepal Rastra Bank

Empirical methods in macroeconomics

  • Regression basics

  • Unit root and nonstationary test

  • Cointegration

  • VAR, SVAR and panel VARs

  • Local projection

  • Factor models

  • Mixed frequency models and nowcasting

  • State space models and Kalman filter

  • Bayesian VAR

Applied microeconometrics

  • Regression basics

  • Treatment effects and randomized control trials

  • Instrument variable methods

  • GMM

  • Panel data models

  • Difference-in-difference 

  • Event studies

  • Matching

  • Regression discontinuity  design

  • Synthetic control 

Other teaching materials related to macroeconomics

  • Measuring output, business cycle and multiplier

  • Balance of payments and crisis

  • Exchange rate, capital flows and policy interaction

  • Central banking in 21st century

  • Writing in economics 

  • Macroeconomic management and economic research

  • Nepalese monetary policy

  • Banking and Financial Crisis: An Overview

  • International Trade

  • Finance, growth and crisis 


Macroeconomic Analysis, ECON 715, M.Phil./Ph.D. program in economics, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

These are the visiting/guest lectures for the course.

  • Lecture 1: Dynamic general equilibrium model (centralized economy)

  • Lecture 2: Dynamic programming

  • Lecture 3: The canonical new Keynesian Model

  • Lecture 4: Optimal monetary policy I

  • Lecture 5: Optimal monetary policy II

  • Lecture 6: Labor market rigidities in new Keynesian model

  • Lecture 7: The new Keynesian model for a small open economy


Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory, University of Connecticut, CT, USA, Spring 2021

Syllabus

Lecture Note 1 Introduction

Lecture Note 2 Measuring Output

Lecture Note 3 Measuring Business Cycles

Lecture Note 4 Household and Firm Behavior

Lecture Note 5 A Closed Economy One Period Model

Lecture Note 6 A Closed Economy Two-Period Model

Lecture Note 7 A Real Intertemporal Model of Investment

Lecture Note 8 Facts of Economic Growth

Lecture Note 9 Economic Growth I

Lecture Note 10 Economic Growth II

Lecture Note 11 Money, Banking, and Prices

Lecture Note 12 Business Cycle Models

Lecture Note 13 New Keynesian Model

Lecture Note 14 Banks

Teaching Assistant, University of Connecticut, CT, USA

  • International Finance (ECON 3422), Fall 2017

  • Principles of Economics (ECON 1200), Spring 2018

  • Economics of Poverty (ECON 2456), Spring 2019

  • Principles of Macroeconomics (ECON 1202), Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020

Assistant Lecture, Central Department of Economics, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

  • Microeconomic Theory, 2007,2008,2009,2010

*The materials and views expressed on this site/blog are my own and do not necessarily represent the views of the Nepal Rastra Bank. 

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