Teaching
Links and advice for Grad
Students in Macro/Finance at BU
The
lecture notes and problems below may have typos or “thinkos”.
Use at your own risk!
CURRENT TEACHING: 2011-2012
Spring
2012
Econ
502: Macroeconomics, Master. Syllabus.
Econ
445: Economics of Risk and Finance. Syllabus.
Fall
2011
Econ
745: Asset Pricing and Macroeconomics. Syllabus.
Econ
741: Topics in Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics. Syllabus.
TEACHING: 2010-2011
Spring
2011
Econ
502: Macroeconomics, Master. Syllabus. Lecture
Notes. Problem Sets.
Econ
445: Economics of Risk and Finance. Syllabus. Lecture
Notes. Problem Sets.
Fall
2010
Econ
745: Asset Pricing and Macroeconomics. Syllabus. Class presentations. Lecture Notes. Problem sets.
PREVIOUS CLASSES AT BOSTON
UNIVERSITY
Econ
445: Spring 2008, Spring 2010. Economics
of Risk and Finance. 2008
Syllabus. 2010
Syllabus.
Econ 745: Spring 2010 version. Asset Pricing and Macroeconomics. Syllabus. Lecture Notes. Problem sets and Exam. Class presentations.
Econ
741, Fall 2007 version. Second-year Graduate
Macroeconomics. Syllabus.
Econ
741, Fall 2006 version. Syllabus.
Material posted here
(Asset Pricing and Business Cycles).
Econ
741, Fall 2005 version. Syllabus. Class Notes (Firms,
workers and jobs in macroeconomics).
Econ
704, Spring 2006, Spring 2007: Syllabus. Class
Notes. Problem Sets. (Consumption and savings with uncertainty and asset pricing.)
Econ
202, Fall 2005, Fall 2006: Undergraduate
Macroeconomics: Syllabus.
TEACHING OUTSIDE BOSTON
UNIVERSITY
Spring
2009 Wharton School, U of Pennsylvania: Finance
101. Macroeconomics. Syllabus.
June 2009 Toulouse Syllabus Slides: Lecture 0 Lecture 1 Lecture 2 Gourio and Miao slides Gourio
slides
Lecture 3
SOME OTHER NOTES
Notes on Recursive
(Epstein-Zin) utility
Notes on Discrete-time
Markov Processes
A toy version of the
putty-clay model
Basic
micro notes:
elasticities,
short-run vs.
long-run demand, two-sector
model, compensating
differentials and sorting.