Intergenerational Human Capital Transmission
Macroeconomic Theory II (Ph.D.). Spring, 2014.
Part One. Instructor: Thomas J. Sargent.
Topics covered:
Part Two. Instructor: Gianluca Violante.
Syllabus and other Course Material.
Topics covered:
- Slides for Yale (Cowles Foundation) Lecture. October, 2018.
Macroeconomic Theory II (Ph.D.). Spring, 2014.
Part One. Instructor: Thomas J. Sargent.
Topics covered:
- Problem Set 1: On entropy, heterogenous beliefs and recursive Pareto problem.
- Problem Set 2: On incomplete markets.
- Problem Set 3: On ambiguity preferences and Lucas tree model.
Part Two. Instructor: Gianluca Violante.
Syllabus and other Course Material.
Topics covered:
- Problem Set 1: On aggregation.
- Problem Set 2: On income fluctuation problems, Permanent Income Hypothesis and precautionary savings.
- Problem Set 3: Numerical problem on heterogenous agents w/ idiosyncratic uncertainty.
- Problem Set 4: On Neoclassical growth model with incomplete markets and Ramsey taxation.
- Problem Set 5: On aggregate risk.
- Problem Set 6: On labor supply elasticity and lifecycle economies.
- (Very) Basic measure theory.
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