Advanced Topics in Macroeconomics

Harvard FAS

This is an advanced course in closed- and open-economy macroeconomics, using approaches based on data, stylized models, and quantitative macroeconomic models. The first half, taught by Oleg Itskhoki, will cover topics including exchange rates, international finance, and international macro. The second half, taught by Ludwig Straub, will focus on macroeconomic modeling with rich household heterogeneity as well as state-of-the-art methods to solve and simulate models numerically.