Introduction

This is the home page for Econ 222C, Topics in Monetary Economics. The class meets on Tuesdays 5:00 to 7:50 p.m. in Bunche 2249. Some of the material below is in Adobe Acrobat format. Use the link below to get the Acrobat Reader if you have not installed the current version.

Class Materials

• Syllabus
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Online Readings

• Krueger and Perri (2001): Does Income Inequality Lead to Consumption Inequality? Evidence and Theory.
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• Violante (2001): Notes on Models with Limited Enforcement.
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• Acemoglu (2001): Technical Change, Inequality, and the Labor Market.
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• Caselli (1999): Technological Revolutions.
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• Krusell, Ohanian, Rios-Rull, Violante (2002): Capital-Skill Complementarity and Inequality: A Macroeconomic Analysis.
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• Acemoglu (2002): Directed Technical Change.
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• Hassler, Mora, Storesletten, and Zilibotti (2001): The Survival of the Welfare State.
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• Hassler, Krusell, Storesletten, and Zilibotti (2002): Notes on Solving for Credible Policies.
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• R. Aiyagari (1995): The Econometrics of Indeterminacy: An Applied Study: A Comment.
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• J. Benhabib, R. Farmer (1999): Indeterminacy and Sunspots in Macroeconomics.
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• G. Cazzavillan, T. Lloyd-Braga, P. Pintus (1998): Multiple Steady States and Endogenous Fluctuations with Increasing Returns to Scale in Production.
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• S. Schmitt-Grohe (1997): Comparing Four Models of Aggregate Fluctuations due to Self-Fulfilling Expectations.
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