Professor:
Noah Williams
Office: 7434 Sewell Social Science,
e-mail: nmwilliams@wisc.edu
Office
hours: 11:00-12:00 Tuesday, or by appointment.
TA:
Yingtong Xie, email: yingtong.xie@wisc.edu
1/22: Lecture 1
Labor supply || Related material: Wall St. Journal on Job Market over Past Decade Aguiar et al (2018)
1/27: Lecture 2
Labor demand || Related material: NY
Times Op-Ed Wall
St Journal Op Ed Diamond
and Saez (2011)
1/29: Lecture 3
General equilibrium || Ramey
and Zubairy (2018)
2/3: Lecture
4 Dynamic model
2/5: Lecture
5 More on dynamic model
2/10: Lecture
6 Growth || PBS Story on Growth Glaeser on Vollrath
2/12: Lecture
7 Solow Model
2/17: Lecture
8 Convergence, Optimal Growth || The Future of Economic Convergence
2/19: Lecture
9 Endogenous Growth || 2018 Nobel Prize Scientific Background
2/24: Lecture
10 Consumption and Savings || US Savings Rate
2/26: Midterm 1
3/2: Lecture
11 Consumption Under Uncertainty, Asset Pricing
3/4: Lecture
12 Asset Pricing, Social Security & Ricardian Equivalence || Cochrane (2017) "Macro-Finance"
3/9: Lecture
13 Dynamic General Equilibrium
3/11: Lecture
14 Real Business Cycles
Problem Set 1 due in class
on February 5
Problem Set 2 due in class
on February 19. Previous version had a typo on problem 1 (missing beta)
Problem Set 3 due in class
on March 11.