Quantitative Macroeconomics (BSc, 3rd year), Autumn Term 2019-20


The lecture notes are available on Moodle.


23 Sep. Measuring Economic Activity - The Basics

30 Sep. Introduction to Matlab

7 Oct. Trend vs. Cycle

14 Oct. Growth I - The Solow Model and the Data

21 Oct. Growth II - Simulating a Simple Growth Model

28 Oct. The Real Business Cycle Model

4 Nov. Approximate Solutions to DSGE Models

11 Nov. A First Introduction to Dynare

18 Nov. Dynare Exercise - The New Keynesian Model

25 Nov. Structural Vector Autoregressions

2 Dec. Estimating SVARs in Practice

9 Dec. A Case Study

16 Dec. Problem Set Discussion