ECON 816: Macro II
Syllabus
Lecture Outlines
- Weeks 1-2: Competing Theories of Macro Fluctuations
- Week 3: Basics of Monetary Economics
- Week 4: Rational Expectations
- Rational Ignorance vs. Rational Irrationality by Bryan Caplan
- Systematically Biased Beliefs About Economics by Bryan Caplan
- Week 5: Monetary vs. Fiscal Policy in Real Models
- Weeks 6-7: Monetary vs. Fiscal Policy with Nominal Rigidities
- Week 9: Optimal Policy; Endogenous Policy Theory, I: Time Consistency
- Week 10: Endogenous Policy Theory, II: Public Choice and Macro Policy
- Weeks 11-12: Privatization of Money, I and II
- Week 13: The Great Depression and European Unemployment
- Week 14: Comparative Systems and Macro Performance