Ateneo - UPO

Economic Growth, Microfoundations of Macroeconomics

Zagler, Martin (2013), Lecture Notes on Macroeconomics, mimeoJones, Charles and Vollrath, Dietrich (2024), Introduction to Economic Growth, Norton, ISBN: 978-1-324-06375-9Heijdra, Ben (2017), Foundations of Modern Macroeconomics, Oxford University Press, ISBN: 9780198784135David Romer (2019), Advanced Macroeconomics, New York: McGraw Hill. 

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. Time Series 3. Macroeconomics redux 4. Growth Accounting 5. 40 Years of Solowtude 6. Extensions of the Solow model 7. Convergence 8. Productivity 9. Innovation 10. Endogenous Growth 11. Consumption 12. Government 13. Real Business Cycles 14. Investment

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