Syllabus/achievement requirements

Books and lecture notes

Krueger, D: Dynamic Fiscal Policy, Unpublished. University of Pennsylvania 2007. Chapter 4-6. . Available here.

Krueger, D.: Quantitative Macroeconomics, Unpublished. University of Pennsylvania 2007. Chapters 8-11. Available at.

Roemer, D: Advanced Macroeconomics, 2006. McGraw-Hill. Chapter 1-2, 4-5, 7, 8, 11 (or corresponding chapter in earlier editions).

Williamson, Stephen: Notes on Macroeconomic Theory, Unpublished. University of Iowa, 1999. Chapters 1-3, 5-6. Available. here.

Matlab primer (especially pp. 1-10),

Articles (Can be downloaded)

Barlevy, G.: The costs of business cycles and the benefits of stabilization, 2005. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Economic Perspectives. 29(1): 32-59.

Cole, H. and L. Ohanian: The great depression in the United States from a neoclassical perspective, 1999. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Quarterly Review. 23(1): 2-23.

Cooley, T.F.: Calibrated Models, 1997. Oxford Review of Economic Policy. 13(3): 55-69.

Harley, J.E., K.D. Hoover and K.D. Salyer: The limits of business cycle research: Assessing the real business cycle model, 1997. Oxford Review of Economic Policy. 13(3):34-54.

Li, V.E.: Can market-clearing models explain U.S. labor market fluctuations?, 1992. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Quarterly Review. 16(2): 1-12.

Kydland, F.E. and E.C. Prescott: Business cycles. Real facts and a monetary myth, Spring 1990. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Quarterly Review. 14(2):3-18.

Lindbeck, A. and M. Persson: The gains from pension reform, 2003. Journal of Economic Literature. 41(1): 74-112.

Peter Birch S?rensen and Hans J?rgen Whitta-Jacobsen: Introducing Advanced Macroeconomics, 2005. McGraw Hill. Chapter 15 (pp. 433-456): Investment and asset prices.

Links to sources for articles

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