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.