Teaching Links and advice for Grad
Students in Macro/Finance at BU The
lecture notes and problems below likely contain typos or “thinkos”. Use at
your own risk! Spring
2010 Econ
445: Economics of Risk and Finance. Syllabus. Material will
be posted on Courseinfo. Econ
745: Macroeconomics and Finance. Syllabus. Material will be posted on Courseinfo. June
2009
Toulouse Syllabus Slides:
Lecture 0 Lecture 1 Lecture 2 Gourio and Miao
slides Gourio slides Lecture 3 Spring
2009 Finance
101 (Wharton): Macroeconomics. Syllabus. Webcafe website. Spring
2008 Econ
445: Economics of Risk and Finance. Syllabus. Fall
2007 Econ
741: Second-year Graduate Macroeconomics (1/2 of the class). Syllabus. Other
BU classes Econ
741, Fall 2006: Syllabus. Material
posted here (Asset
Pricing and Business Cycles). Econ
741, Fall 2005: Syllabus. Class Notes (Firms,
workers and jobs in macroeconomics). Econ
704, Spring 2007: Syllabus. Class Notes. Problem Sets. (Consumption and savings with uncertainty and asset pricing.) Econ
202, Fall 2005, Fall 2006: Undergraduate
Macroeconomics: Syllabus. Notes Notes on Recursive
(Epstein-Zin) utility Notes on Discrete-time
Markov Processes A toy version of the
putty-clay model Notes on Irreversible
Investment: a closed-form result Basic
micro notes: elasticities, short-run vs. long-run demand,
two-sector model, compensating differentials
and sorting.