Advanced Macroeconomics 3: Monetary policy and business
cycles, ECOM-R319, 2021
THIS PAGE IS OLD. ALL MATERIAL AND INSTRUCTIONS ARE IN THE COURSE MOODLE SITE!!!!
This is the website of the new third module of FDPE
macroeconomics sequence
and the corresponding part of the Research Master's course block.
Hence, this contains information of the part
of the
lectures that are given by Antti Ripatti. The course has the formal
website. It contains syllabus, that is a bit outdated. We
have redesigned the entire advanced macroeconomics sequence.
News
Register in Moodle
too. The exercises will be posted there!
Lectures
See the course
web by UH
Exam: Mon 7.5.2018, 10-14, Economicum, sh.3 - 4,
Retake exam: Wed 6.6.2018, 10-14, Economicum, sh.3 - 4
Lecture notes (subject to substantial changes)
Try to get the SECOND
EDITION Galí's
book. It is more complete than my
slides. I am gradually moving from the first edition to the second
edition. It is better to buy the second edition such that you have most
of the material of the book available.
I will rely on the following lecture notes. I will update these
frequently and place the version date on the first page of the slides. Please, check for the latest
version even at the day of a lecture.
Most probably there will be changes even just prior to the lecture. The
lecture notes are released as a single package:
- Slides:
Difference equations and
solution methods will be handled only briefly during the lectures
Exercises
Problem sets are stored in Moodle.
Exercise classes are given by Juho Peltonen. Exercise
timetable, see the course
web by UH
You
may encounter many practical problems in doing the exercises
(computation in particular). It is, however, necessary that you will
try hard. See the computing hints below!
Exams
See the course
web by UH
Final Exam: 10 March 2021 (10-12)
Retake exam: 5 May 2021 (12-14)
Computing hints (some of the links are old)
A list of
log-linearisation rules. These will help you in
log-linearisation. Note, that the notation differs from Gali.
Many of the exercises contains computational exercises. Hence you need
a computer, dynare and Matlab or Octave (Octave is free). To install Octave follow the Dynare instructions
to install Octave and Dynare website to
install Dynare. I have tested Windows, Mac OS X and Ubuntu
(check the dynare wiki and forum for Ubuntu instructions)
versions of
Octave/Dynare and both of them do the job. Ubuntu Octave is more
user-friendly.
BTW, the usage of Octave could be more user-friendly with a front-end!
In exercises, I will ask you to
log-linearise some equations. For computational purposes with dynare
this is not necessary. Note, however, that the model has to be
in stationary form in dynare, so get rid of the price level
(ie write
the model in terms of inflation and real variables, eg real money
balances $m_t-p_t$). Dynare will then linearize the system
automatically (command stoch_simul(order=1,irf=20);)
and analytically. (This is different than log-linearisation,
so your
results may deviate from log-linear version.) This helps you
to get
some results.
The
idea in the Dynare is that you need to code the decision rules, the
budget constraints, and the equilibrium conditions. Then dynare use
this information to form the state-space representation of the
model.
After this, it solves the model and computes policy functions (ie the
system of solved equation) and standard descriptive statistics
of the
model. All of this means that provides you the solution of the
linearised model.
Oops, you need an editor to edit your model file. If you do not have
your favourite editor, type edit filename.mod
in Octave or Matlab.