Teaching

Teaching

503: Macroeconomics (1st year Ph.D. course)

529: Money, Finance & Macroeconomics With Agent Heterogeneity (2nd year Ph.D. course)

416/516: FinTech (Masters/undergraduate course)

Reading Groups

I run a reading group on Macroeconomics, Money and Finance with Moritz Lenel. The website for the reading group can be found here.

FinTech Materials

Syllabus: here

GitHub repository with code for the "paynecoin" blockchain: here  

503: Macroeconomic Materials

Syllabus: here 

Lecture 1: Deterministic Dynamic Programming: Concepts and Examples: lec01.pdf 

Lecture 2: Deterministic Dynamic Programming: Theory: lec02.pdf

Lecture 3: Markov Chains and Stochastic Bellman Equations: lec03.pdf 

Lecture 4: Search and Unemployment: lec04.pdf 

Lecture 5: Recursive (Partial) Equilibrium and Rational Expectations: lec05.pdf 

Lecture 6: Equilibrium with Complete Markets: lec06.pdf 

Lecture 7: Consumption Based Asset Pricing: lec07.pdf 

Lecture 8: Overlappings Generations (OLG) Model: lec08.pdf 

Lecture 9: The (Decentralized) Neoclassical Stochastic Growth Model: lec09.pdf 

Lecture 10: Optimal Government Policy: lec10.pdf 

Class discussion on “Econometric Policy Evaluation: A Critique” (1976) by Robert E. Lucas, Jr. discuss01.pdf 

Class discussion on "The Computational Experiment: An Econometric Tool" (1996) by Finn E. Kydland and Edward C. Prescott and "The Empirical Foundations of Calibration” (1996) by Lars Peter Hansen and James J. Heckman. discuss02.pdf 

Class discussion on "Chapter 10: A Methodological Breach" in A History of Macroeconomics: From Keynes to Lucas and Beyond (2016) by De Vroey. discuss03.pdf 

529: Money, Finance & Macroeconomics With Agent Heterogeneity

Syllabus: here