Course at The University of Tokyo Advanced Topics on Macroeconomcis
Faculty of Economic at The University of Tokyo
4156: Advanced Topics on Macroeconomcis
Summer Esteban-Pretel
This is an advanced topics on macroeconomics course, where we will study and reproduce some papers in the macroeconomics literature. Topics from growth, to empirical analysis of the labor market will be covered in the course. The course will alternate lectures on the basic theory of the topics, lectures analyzing the specific papers and recitations with student presentations on the homeworks assigned on the papers. Homeworks will include the reproduction of theoretical and empirical results of the papers.
The three main objectives of the course are that the student learns some advance topics in the field of macroeconomics through the analysis of some important papers, that he/she learns how to reproduce some of the results of these papers and that he/she acquires presentation skills. This is an advance topics course and knowledge of basic econometrics is required, hence students planning to take this course are required to have taken at least one econometrics course. Students are also required to have a good knowledge of English, since the classes ,the papers assigned in the course and the students presentation will be in English.