Ateneo - UPO

Economic Growth, Microfoundations of Macroeconomics

Zagler, Martin (2013), Lecture Notes on Macroeconomics, mimeo
Jones, Charles and Vollrath, Dietrich (2024), Introduction to Economic Growth, Norton, ISBN: 978-1-324-06375-9
Heijdra, Ben (2017), Foundations of Modern Macroeconomics, Oxford University Press, ISBN: 9780198784135

Students should learn concepts of modern macroeconomics based on microfoundations.

Microeconomics (Economia Politica), Macroeconomics (Politica Economica)

Lectures, Exercises, Student presentations

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Final exam

1. Stylized Facts 2. Macroeconomics redux 3. 40 Years of Solowtude 4. Too many cooks ... The Ramsey Kass Koopmans Solow Swan Model 5. Real Business Cycles 6. The Advantage of Dying: Overlapping Generations 7. What's in A? 8. Endogenous Growth Theory 9. Some Useful Models Gender mainstreaming: none

At the end of the course students should be familiar with modern macroeconomic models.