Frontiers of Macroeconomics · Economics
macro labour models- DMP, Burdett-mortensen, and how to estimate them
The course is really about computational methods in economics and provides an overview of general programming tools and practical applications to problems in economics.
In the first half we learned AKM and job ladder models. In the second half we learned growth and firm dynamics.
Important coding techniques and best methods to adopt!
Endogenous growth models, heterogeneous firms.
Columbia economics should offer a similar course on computational economics every year.
Macro growth in developed and developing countries. Firm growth, innovation models, sectoral change, spatial dev, etc.
The exercise of the "most ambitious macro paper" was great.
I would strongly recommend to a student interested in macro. Likely wouldn’t recommend to a student uninterested in macro.