Syllabus/achievement requirements

Core curriculum

David Romer: Advanced Macroeconomics, 3rd ed, 2006. McGraw-Hill. Chapter 1, 2, 4, 5.1, 5.3-5.6, 7, 8.1-8.6, 9.1-9.2, 9.4, 9.8-9.9, 11.1-11.5, 11.8-11.10 (or corresponding chapters in earlier editions).

Stephen Williamson: Notes on Macroeconomic Theory, 1999. Unpublished, University of Iowa. chapters 1-3, 5-6. http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ510a/notes99.pdf.

Asbjørn Rødseth: A short lecture note on fiscal policy and pension systems in overlapping generation models (to be distributed at the start of the semester).

Blanchard, O: European unemployment: The evolution of facts and ideas, Economic Policy 21:5-59, 2006.

Sørensen, P. B. and H. J. Whitta-Jacobsen: Introducing Advanced Macroeconomics, 2005 McGraw Hill. Pp 433-456. Chapter 15: Investment and asset prices.

A list of further readings will be made available as the semester starts.

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