interest rate update
| Econ 398 | 11:50-1:15 | ||
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| Week I | 10-Jan-17 | intro: interest rates | |
| Interest rates | 12-Jan-17 | Fernald | Blogging: Windle, Santana-Garces, Oberkircher |
| Week II | 17-Jan-17 | Production Models: TFP | Blogging: Lance, Ghimire, Ellinger |
| Brainstorming | 19-Jan-17 | Production Models: TFP | your first proposal due |
| Week III | 24-Jan-17 | Solow and the LR: TFP and Gordon | Blogging: Edmonds, Dawejko, Cohen |
| CPI | 26-Jan-17 | ||
| Week IV | 31-Jan-17 | Technology Models | discuss Griliches Nathan Rosenberg on Science vs Invention vs Innovation [my version] |
| Construction | 2-Feb-17 | class cancelled | Blogging: Windle, Sanatana-Garces, Oberkircher |
| Week V | 7-Feb-17 | NO CLASS | in Detroit |
| CES/CPS | 9-Feb-17 | extended proposal due Discuss: Teece, David J. 1977. “Technology Transfer by Multinational Firms: The Resource Cost of Transferring Technological Know-How.” Economic Journal 87(June): 242–61. Do a one page memo: what does this paper say about the nature of technology? |
Blogging: Lance, Ghimire, Ellinger |
| Week VI | 14-Feb-17 |
Levin, Richard C. et al. 1987. “Appropriating the Returns from Industrial Research and Development.” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1987(3): 783–831.
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| Home Prices | 16-Feb-17 | Blogging: Edmonds, Dawejko, Cohen | |
| 21-Feb-17 | Midterm Break | ||
| 23-Feb-17 | Midterm Break | ||
| Week VII | 28-Feb-17 |
Bloom, David E., and J. W. Lorsch. 2016. Demographic Influences on U.S. Economic Prospects. Program on the Global Demography of Aging. PGDA Working Paper No. 122.
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Blogging: Windle, Santana-Garces, Oberkircher |
| GDP | 2-Mar-17 |
Westelius, N. J., & Liu, Y. (n.d.). The Impact of Demographics on Productivity and Inflation in Japan. IMF Working Paper No. 16/237.
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| Week VIII | 7-Mar-17 | Samuelson, Paul A. (1958). “An Exact Consumption-Loan Model of Interest with or without the Social Contrivance of Money.” Journal of Political Economy 66:6, 467-482. at JSTOR | Blogging: Lance, Ghimire, Ellinger |
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| Trade | 9-Mar-17 | US Social Security System: Goss, Stephen C. 2010. “The Future Financial Status of the Social Security Program.” Social Security Bulletin 70(3): 111–25. | |
| Week IX | 14-Mar-17 | General Topic for week: International Side | |
| Productivity | 16-Mar-17 | Intl (continued) | Blogging: Edmonds, Dawejko, Cohen |
| Week X | 21-Mar-17 | Fiscal Sustainability Hoshi, Takeo, and Takatoshi Ito. 2014. “Defying Gravity: Can Japanese Sovereign Debt Continue to Increase without a Crisis?” Economic Policy 29(77): 5–44. |
Blogging: Windle, Santana-Garces, Oberkircher Subject: your project |
| State-level data | 23-Mar-17 | IMF Article IV review excerpts: IMF 2014 Excerpts | |
| Week XI | 28-Mar-17 | General Topic for week: topic presentations | Blogging: Lance, Ghimire, Ellinger Subject: your project |
| Home Sales | 30-Mar-17 | General Topic for week: topic presentations | |
| Week XII | |||
| Monday Lecture |
4-Apr-17 | H Parker Willis | Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker |
| 4-Apr-17 | one-page summary of Willis lecture due Thurs | no class [in Detroit] | |
| Week XII | 4-Apr-17 | probably in Detroit | = no class |
| 6-Apr-17 | General Topic for week: US Economic Future | ||
| 11-Apr-17 | Final Exams | ||
| 13-Apr-17 | Final Exams | Blogging: Edmonds, Dawejko, Cohen Subject: your project |