This tutorial (48h) is aimed at building both a theoretical and an empirical understanding of economic growth.
Solow-Swan Model
Ramsey Model
Overlapping Generations Models (OLG)
Several Applications: Education, Fertility and Inequality ; Aspirations, Norms and Envy ; Environment ; Infectious Diseases ; Migrations
This course (36h) is aimed at strengthening the mathematical skills required for the Master's Program.
Functions: definition, common functions and their graphs, inverse functions and their properties, functions of two or more independent variables
Derivatives: derivation rules, partial differentiation, differentials, derivatives of implicit functions, inverse function rules
Optimization: Lagrangian, Kuhn-Tucker conditions, envelope theorem
Matrices and Linear Algebra: simple operations, determinants, projections, diagonalization, introduction to eigenvectors and eigenvalues
Probability and Statistics: conditional probability, Bayes' rule, expected value, variances and co-variances, distributions, Central Limit Theorem