Courses

6.207/14.15  Networks
Fall 2009

Instructors:K Daron Acemoglu, Asu Ozdaglar
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Lecture Notes:
Lecture 1 - Introduction
Lecture 2 - Graph Theory and Social Networks
Lecture 3 - Erdos-Renyi Graphs and Branching Processes
Lecture 4 - Erdos-Renyi Graphs and Phase Transitions
Lecture 5 - Generalized Random Graphs and Small-World Model
Lecture 6 - Growing Random Networks and Power Laws
Lecture 7 - Search on Networks: Navigation and Web Search
Lecture 8 - Diffusion through Networks
Lecture 9 - Introduction to Game Theory-1
Lecture 10 - Introduction to Game Theory-2
Lecture 11 - Introduction to Game Theory-3
Lecture 12 - Applications of Game Theory to Networks
Lectures 13 and 14 - Evolution and Learning in Games
Lecture 15 - Repeated Games and Cooperation
Lecture 16 - Cooperation and Trust in Networks
Lectures 17 and 18 - Network Effects
Lectures 19-21 - Bayesian Nash Equilibria, Auctions and Introduction to Social Learning


Problem Sets:
Problem Set 1
Problem Set 2
Problem Set 3
Problem Set 4
Problem Set 5

14.452 Macro Theory II
Introduction to Economic Growth
Fall 2009

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Lecture 1 - Stylized Facts of Economic Growth and Development and Introduction to the Solow Model
Lecture 2 - The Solow Growth Model
Lecture 3 - The Solow Growth Model and the Data
Lecture 4 - Foundations of Neoclassical Growth
Lectures 5-6 - Neoclassical Growth
Lecture 7 - Overlapping Generations
Lecture 8 - Neoclassical Endogenous Growth
Lectures 9 and 10 - Endogenous Technological Change

Problem Set 1
Problem Set 2

14.661 Labor Economics I
Fall 2009

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Lectures in Labor Economics

Lectures 1 and 2 - Investment in Education and Skills
Lecture 3 - Education, Selection and Signaling
Lectures 4 and 5 - Externalities and Peer Effects
Lecture 6 - Moral Hazard
Lectures 7 and 8 - Further Results in Moral Hazard and Applications
Lecture 9 - Efficiency Wages
Lectures 10 and 11 - Investments in General and Specific Skills

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

14.463 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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(click to download the Lecture Notes on Unemployment Differences, Fluctuations, Job Creation and Job Destruction in PDF format)
(click to download the Lecture Notes on Technology and the Structure of Wages in PDF format)
Fall 2005 14.461