Courses
Below you find the latest versions of courses I taught since 2017. In addition, my YouTube channel has some related materials.
Inaugural lecture - Africa, economics and development
Semester: spring
Offered: 2019
I talk about African contemporaneous development. But to talk about African contemporaneous development, I have to talk about the role of pre-colonial institutions, and the slave trade, and the scramble for Africa, and also about the colonial institutions themselves. To understand African contemporaneous development - and ultimately to influence policy - we must have African historical development in mind. For that, new datasets, new methods and modern Economics can really help. I show how the literature on African economic development has evolved since the 1990s and how my teaching and research take the latest scientific developments into account.
MEK 781 - Macroeconomics
Semester: springer
Offered: 2023
In this part of the course we cover some topics in economics. They include, automation and the labour market, government and populism, austerity and populism, WEIRD, state formation and capacity, and the environment.
MEK 780 - Macroeconomics
Semester: autumn
Offered: 2022
In this course we cover some topics in economics. They include, automation and the labour market, internet, government and populism, austerity and populism, globalisation and political polarisation, state capacity, environment, crime and COVID-19.
Tutorial 1 and 1A
EKN & EKT 795 - Research methods
Semester: autumn
Offered: 2021
I provide guidelines on how to go about your paper and then we go through a couple of papers so that you can reconcile the guidelines with actual papers. Alternatively speaking, we will learn what bullshit is, how to spot bullshit, how to avoid becoming a bullshitter and how to refute bullshit. In all, we will learn how to deal with rot.
EKN 884 - Political economics
semester: spring
Offered: 2021
This part of the course introduces the students to topics on African development. I cover the roles of pre-colonial history, state formation, the slave trade, colonialism, culture, democracy and media on development.
Lecture 1 - paper 1 and paper 2 - African pre-colonial history
Lecture 3 - paper 1 and paper 2 - The slave trade and colonialism
Lecture 6 - Colonial origins and final remarks
ECON4037A - Advanced macroeconomics (applied)
Semester: autumn
Offered: 2020
The course provides an introduction to economic growth and to topics on macro-economic development. Firstly we cover the facts of growth and then the Solow growth model and its empirical applications (human capital and convergence). Secondly we cover the new growth theory (the Romer model of endogenous growth). Lastly, we cover technology transfer, social infrastructure, population and natural resources.
ECON4039A - Research methods
Semester: autumn
Offered: 2020
I provide guidelines on how to go about your dissertation and then we go through a couple of papers so that you can reconcile the guidelines with actual papers.
ECON7024A - Growth
Semester: autumn
Offered: 2020
The first part of the course introduces the students to the literature on growth economics since the 1990s. I cover seminal growth papers on the proximate determinants of growth. Then I cover more recent papers on the long-run roots of economic development, say, the roles of geography, the Neolithic transition, institutions, reversals, history of populations and ancestry on development. The second part introduces the students to topics on African development. I cover the roles of pre-colonial history, state formation, the slave trade, colonialism, culture, democracy and media on development.
Lecture 7 - paper 1 and paper 2 - African precolonial history 1
Lecture 8 - paper 1 and paper 2 - African precolonial history 2
Lecture 9 - paper 1 and paper 2 - The slave trades and the scramble for Africa
ECON7017A - Time-series econometrics
Semester: spring
Offered: 2019
I provide an introduction to panel time-series. I cover stationarity testing in panels, cross-section dependence testing, cointegration testing and estimation in heterogeneous parameter models.
ECON7025AW - Advanced institutional economics
Semester: spring
Offered: 2018
In this part of the course I will introduce the students to topics such as: geography and the Neolithic transition, reversals, history of populations and ancestry, African pre-colonial history, culture and democracy.
ECON7032A - Political economy
Semester: spring
Offered: 2018
I provide an introduction to the topics of democracy and growth, and political cycles in young democracies. I cover the papers by Barro, Papaioannou and Siourounis, and Acemoglu et al. on democracy and growth, and by Akhmedov and Zhuravskaya, and Brender and Drazen on political cycles.
EKN 214 - Intermediate macroeconomics
Semester: autumn
Offered: 2018
A quick introduction to the Solow and Romer models.
EKN 325 - Introduction to economic growth
Semester: spring
Offered: 2017
The course provides an introduction to economic growth and to topics on development economics. Firstly we cover some historical facts and then the Solow growth model and its empirical applications (human capital and convergence). Secondly we cover the new growth theory (the Romer model of endogenous growth). Lastly, we cover technology transfer, social infrastructure, population and natural resources.
ERSA - Panel-data econometrics
Semester: spring
Offered: 2017
Firstly, I provide a quick review of the linear regression model, endogeneity and instrumental variables, and measurement error. Secondly, I cover static panel data, say, random effects, fixed effects, first differencing, attrition and endogenous variables, and then dynamic panel data models, say, the generalised method of moments, weak instruments and system GMM. Lastly, time permitting, I will cover topics in panel time-series, say, parameter heterogeneity, non-stationarity and cross-section correlation.