Advanced Topics in Macroeconomics
co-taught by Laura Veldkamp and Gian Luca Clementi
for both Stern and NYU economics dept. Ph.D. students.

This website is for the first half of the course, which is an introduction to information choice with applications to business cycles, monetary economics and finance. We will cover Bayesian learning, coordination games with heterogeneous information and rational inattention. 

Syllabus

Lecture Notes

Problem sets

Problem set 1
 answer key 1
Problem set 2
 answer key 2
Problem set 3
 answer key 3
Problem set 4
 answer key 4
Problem set 5
 answer key 5

 
Referee report

Advice for writing referee reports

Research proposal

Guidelines

Articles to read for class, with links

Morris and Shin (1998)

Morris and Shin (2002)

Hellwig and Veldkamp (2007)

Reis (2006)

Sims(2003)

Mackowiak and Wiederholt (2007)

Lucas (1972) * note this link may only work if you are on campus or signed into the library service website.

Lorenzoni (2006)

Beaudry and Portier (2004)

Jaimovich and Rebelo (2007)

Wilson (1975)

Grossman Stiglitz (1980)

Veldkamp (2006)

Admati (1985)

Van Nieuwerburgh and Veldkamp (2007)

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