Class information
Tues 7.30pm 308 Dealy Hall
Syllabus
Instructor Information
Johanna Francis
ajofrancis@fordham.edu
Office hours: Mon 6 to 8pm
Office location: Dealy Hall E-507, 5th floor
Course announcements
- Dec 22: Referee report due!
- Dec 16: Final exam
- Dec 9: Student presentations--Early start at 7pm
- Dec 2: Gertler & Kiyotaki 2011 plus wrap up discussion
- Nov 25: Levin & Yun: consumer search; Intro to financial frictions (Gertler & Kiyotaki 2011)
- Nov 18: State Dependent pricing: Dotsey, King & Wolman 1999 + Dotsey & King 2005
- Nov 11: continue with Nakamura & Steinsson 2008 plus Dotsey & King 2005
- Nov 4: Finished Christiano paper (up to indeterminancy issue), introduced the empirics of price setting
- Answer Key for midterm posted on Blackboard (update coming)
- Problem set 2 posted on Blackboard
- Oct 28: continue with Christiano et al 2011, focusing on equilibrium conditions and closing the model
- For reference: slides on baseline New Keynesian model
- Oct 21: Midterm exam during class
- Oct 14: Continue with Christiano et al 2011, focusing on price setting: slides
- Updates on our Blackboard site: referee report assignment and guidelines posted, practice midterm posted
- Oct 6: Read Christiano, et al 2011 (paper on Blackboard)
- Sept 30: Money in the utility function
- Sept 23: Gali chapter 2, money neutrality in standard DSGE model
- For review on dynamic programming and RBC models, read chapter 14 and the appendix (also called chapter 15) in Wickens either 1st or 2nd edition.
- Problem set 1 (also on Blackboard); answers will be posted in 2 weeks.
- Sept 16 introductory Slides plus review dynamic programming
- Sept 9 Slides: intro+Ng and Wright 2013