Motivation

I like to write my notes in courses in LaTeX, and to review I often go through the entire course and clean them up. After I’ve used them for exams, I’ll post them here, for anyone to use.

Typos

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Ownership

All of the material in these notes is the property of the professors who taught the courses, and I claim no ownership of it. I do feel as if I’ve sufficiently modified and contributed to be able to share them, but if any professors object, please let me know and I’ll be happy to remove them (or put them in a private repository).

Other Material

I’ve included more complete course materials in the private section of this website. If you are interested in accessing them, and are a Cornell student,¹ please email me and I can get you a password.

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.