Courses
14.451 Macro Theory 1
Introduction to Economic Growth
Spring 2008
Syllabus
Lecture 1 - Stylized Facts of Economic Growth and Development
Lectures 1 and 2 - The Solow Growth Model
Lecture 3 - The Solow Growth Model and the Data
Lecture 4 - Foundations of Neoclassical Growth
Lecture 5 - Review of Optimal Control
Lecture 6 - Neoclassical Growth
Lecture 7 - Overlapping Generations
Lecture 8 - Human Capital and Economic Growth
Lecture 9 - First Generation Models of Endogenous Growth
Lectures 10 and 11 - Endogenous Technological Change
Lecture 11 - Schumpeterian Growth Models
Lecture 12 - Directed Technological Change
Lecture 13 - Technology Diffusion and Interdependencies
Problem Set 1
Problem Set 2
Problem Set 3
Problem Set 4
14.773 Political Economy
Political Economy of Institutions and Development
Spring 2008
Syllabus
Lecture 1 - Overview
Lectures 2 and 3 - Static Voting Models
Lecture 4 - Dynamic Voting with Given Constituencies
Lecture 5 - Dynamic Voting with Changing Constituencies
Lecture 14 - Political Agency and Electoral Control
Lecture 15 - Failures of Electoral Control
Lecture 16 - Politics in Weakly Institutionalized Societies
Lecture 21 - Economic Institutions Under Elite Domination
Lecture 22 - Beyond Property Rights
Lecture 23 - Institutional Change and Democratization
Lecture 24 - Democratic Consolidation and Origins of Democracy
Lecture 25 - Persistence of Elites and Institutions
Lecture 26 - Constitutions: Interpretation, Modeling and Stability
Political Economy Lecture Notes
Problem Set 1
Problem Set 3
Problem Set 5
14.661 Labor Economics I
Reading List
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Lecture 1 - Investment in Education and Skills
Lecture 2 - Education and Signaling
Lecture 3 - Externalities and Peer Effects
Lecture 4 - Moral Hazard
Lecture 5 - Moral Hazard II
Lecture 6 - Holdups, Incomplete Contracts and Investments
Lecture 7 - Efficiency Wages
Lecture 8 - Investments in General Skills
Lecture 9 - Investments in Specific Skills
Lecture 10 - Partial Equilibrium Sequential Search
Lecture 11 - Equilibrium Search and Matching
Lectures in Labor Economics
14.463 Advanced Economic Growth
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Lecture 1 - Introduction
Lecture 2 - Review of Endogenous Growth: Explaining Variety Models
Lecture 3 - Review of Endogenous Growth: Schumpterian Models
Lecture 4 - Directed Technological Change
Lecture 7 - Innovation by Incumbents and Cumulative Research
Lecture 8 - Technology Diffusion, Trade and Interdependencies: Diffusion of Technology
Lecture 10 - Appropriate Technologies and Barriers to Technology Adoption
Lectures 15 and 17 - Trade Growth and Innovation
Lecture 19 - Structural Change
Lecture 21 - Stochastic Dynamic Programming and Applications
Lecture 22 - Stochastic Growth
Lecture 23 - Structural Transformations and Market Failures in Development (Part 1)
Lecture 27 - Structural Transformations and Market Failures in Development (Part 2)
Problem Set 1
Problem Set 2
Problem Set 3
14.461 Advanced Macroeconomics
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Fall 2005 14.461
14.661 Graduate Labor Economics
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Fall 2005 14.661