First-Year PhD Notes

Public notes from courses I took during the first-year economics PhD sequence.

Notes

Choice theory, consumer theory, producer theory, uncertainty, and asymmetric information theory.

Canonical macroeconomic models, plus solution methods for labor search and real business cycle models.

Statistical inference, asymptotics, estimation, hypothesis testing, and confidence intervals.

General equilibrium theory, from Leontief production models through matching with and without transfers.

Static, extensive, repeated, and Bayesian games, along with incomplete information, knowledge, and mechanism design.

Growth, overlapping generations, heterogeneity, continuous time, and New Keynesian models.

OLS, IV, TSLS, GMM, panel data, extremum estimation, bootstrapping, and non-parametrics.