14.461 Advanced Macroeconomics I, Fall 2009

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Lorenzoni, Guido; Guerrieri, Veronica
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Advanced Macroeconomics I
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Abstract
This course covers three sets of topics. The first part will cover business cycle models with imperfect information. We will ask questions such as: What shocks drive business cycles? What is the relative role of shocks to fundamentals and shocks affecting expectations about (current and future) economic developments? How do informational frictions affect the shape of the responses to various shocks? The second part will cover models of investment with credit constraints. We will ask questions such as: What is the transmission mechanism from shocks to the financial sector to the real economy? What determines optimal decisions about capitalization at the individual and at the social level? The third part will cover search models of decentralized trade applied both to labor markets and to financial markets. In particular, the models will have informational imperfections.
Date issued
2009-12
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79634
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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14.461-Fall2009
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news about the future and fluctuations, dispersed information, estimating models with imperfect information, models with limited pledgeability, models with corporate control problems, models with intermediation and securitization, financial frictions, investment, labor market search and inefficiency, wage dispersion, moral hazard, optimal unemployment insurance, money search, liquidity, adverse selection and lemons problem, decentralized trading in financial markets
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