Teaching, PhD
Dynamic Fiscal Policy in Political and International Economies (University of Essex, Spring 2025):
1. Introduction: Overview and solving the Neoclassical Growth Model with Value Function Iteration and Function Approximation (Slides, Growth_Model_VFI.m, Growth_Model_Function_Approximation.zip [uses the CompEcon Toolbox]).
Lab Exercise 3 (fill the blanks), solving the Stochastic Neoclassical Growth Model with Function Approximation.
2. Political Debt: Overview and solving Markov-perfect Equilibria à la Song, Storesletten, and Zilibotti (2012) with the Endogenous Grid Method (Slides, Political_Debt_EGM.m [uses the CompEcon Toolbox]).
Lab Exercise 4 (fill the blanks), solving for Markov-perfect Equilibria with Function Approximation.
3. Sovereign Debt and Default: Overview and solving a simple sovereign default model à la Müller, Storesletten, and Zilibotti (2019) with Value Function Iteration (Slides, Sovereign_Default_VFI.m).
Various Problem Sets (University of Zurich and University of Oslo, 2012-2015):
Incomplete markets: Aiyagari model with endogenous labor supply (PDF, TeX, Matlab Code (uses the endogenous grid method), 2015).
RBC: Hodrick-Prescott Filter(PDF, TeX, myhpfilter, 2014).
Macro-Labor: McCall Job Search Model (PDF, TeX, Figure 1, Figure 2, Matlab Code [uses the CompEcon Toolbox], 2012).
Macro-Labor: Mortensen-Pissarides à la Hagedorn and Manovskii (PDF, TeX, Matlab Code [uses the CompEcon Toolbox], 2012).