First Year PhD Notes
- Microeconomics I
, taught by David Easley
, Philipp Kircher
, Adam Harris
, Larry Blume
, Levon Barseghyan
, and Marco Battaglini
. Covers the canonical first semester of PhD Microeconomics: choice theory, consumer theory, producer theory, uncertainty, and asymmetric information theory.
- Macroeconomics I
, taught by Mathieu Taschereau-Dumouchel
and Ryan Chahrour
. Prof. Taschereau-Dumouchel’s part covers canonical macroeconomic models, and Prof. Chahrour’s part covers several solution methods to the Labor Search and Real Business Cycle models.
- Econometrics I
, taught by Chen Qiu
. Covers the first semester of Econometrics: introduction to statistical inference, asymptotics, estimation, hypothesis testing, and confidence intervals.
- Microeconomics II
, General Equilibrium, taught by Larry Blume
. Covers a treatment of General Equilibrium theory, from Lenotief production models through matching with and without transfers.
- Microeconomics III
, Game Theory, taught by Marco Battaglini
. Covers static, extensive, repeated, and Bayesian games, along with incomplete information, knowledge, and mechanism design.
- Macroeconomics II
, taught by Julieta Caunedo
and Kris Nimark
. Prof. Caunedo’s part covers the one-sector growth model, the overlapping generations model, heterogeneity, and continuous time growth. Prof. Nimark’s part covers the New Keynesian model, including monetary policy, sticky prices and wages, and unemployment.
- Econometrics II
, taught by Jörg Stoye
. Covers linear models from OLS, through IV, TSLS, and GMM, as well as panel data, extremum estimation, bootstrapping, and some non-parametrics.
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