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Economics 205B: Advanced Macroeconomic Theory
Winter 2011

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Economics 205B is the second quarter of the year-long first-year sequence in macroeconomics for Ph.D. students. The focus in 205B will be on dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models of fluctuations, models of money and models with nominal rigidities.

Professor Carl Walsh
Office Hours: Tu 1-pm, Wed 11am-12pm, or by appointment.
Office: 401 E2
Phone: 531-7147; email: walshc@ucsc.edu
My research home page.

Announcements:

Problem set 5 is now available.
A new schedule is available (see link above).
Curtis Kephart's 205b page, Winter 2010
Curtis Kephart's 205c page, Spring 2010

Section notes and problem sets:

Matlab exercise. For Friday January 7th.
Problem set 1. Answers, Answers from Chris Limnios,
Problem set 2. Answers,
Problem set 3. Answers. Dynare program for RBC with government expenditures. For constucting the graphs.
Problem set 4. Answers,
Paper for referee report.
Problem set 5. Answers, and dynare program for problems 1 and 2.,

Section notes

Notes from section, January 14.
Matlab program for AR(p) example.
Matlab program for rudebusch-Svensson example.

Old exams:

Midterms

Midterm, Winter 2008.
Midterm, Winter 2009.
Midterm, Winter 2010.

Finals

Final, Winter 2008, with answers.
Final, Winter 2009.
Final, Winter 2010. Answers.
Advanced Macro Theory / UCSC / walshc@ucsc.edu