Econ 6212: Advanced Macroeconomics III
Welcome to this web page! This class is taught by Christian
Zimmermann. This class meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00-12:15 AM in room 311, Monteith Building.
Office hours for this class are Wednesdays 7:30-12:00 AM or by
appointment.
Textbooks
This class will use the following textbook: Lars Ljungvist and Thomas J.
Sargent, Recursive Macroeconomic Theory, MIT Press 2000. A second edition was published in 2004, you can use either for this class. The book should be
available at the UConn Bookstore (Co-op).
We will not cover every chapter of the textbook, and we will cover some
material not covered in the textbook (yet). Cooley is "Frontiers of Business Cycle Research", published in 1995 by Princeton University Press.
Topics
- Recursive equilibria
Ljungqvist and Sargent, Chapter 7.
- Bellman exercices
Exerices to be distributed.
- Arrow-Debreu
Loosely from Mas-Colell-Whinston-Green, Chapter 19.
- Real business cycles
Notes, Cooley, Chapters 1, 2, 11.
- Search Theory
Ljungqvist and Sargent, Chapters 6, 26
- Self-Insurance
Ljungqvist and Sargent, Chapter 16.
- Incomplete Markets
Ljungqvist and Sargent, Chapter 17.
- Topics on Recursive Contracts
Ljungqvist and Sargent, Part V.
Here is a reading list covering the main papers in each chapter of the book.
Grades...
There will be one mid-term and a final exam. Each will last a full
class. We will also sprinkle a certain number of homeworks here and there,
both to entice you to work without delay and to allow us to check we are
on the right track. You will also be asked to write a short essay on a
rather narrow topic from Ljungqvist and Sargent. The formula will be:
- 40% mid-term
- 40% final exam
- 20% essay and problems
Essay Topics
The essay should be 8 pages long, plus a bibliography of at least 10
items. At least three must be articles (no more than two from the same
journal), at least three must be unpublished working papers. Topics will be assigned and can be exchanged among students to lead to a Pareto improvement.
To contact me:
Phone: 6-3272, Email: christian.zimmermann@uconn.edu