Macroeconomics Coursebook
The Macroeconomics Coursebook contains supplemental material written by the instructor for the students in the advanced macroeconomics course at Reed College. It helps explain difficult parts of Romer's text, provides contextual background material, and contains selective reviews of empirical applications of the theories we are studying.
Coursebook chapters
- Prologue
- Chapter 1 Macroeconomics: Modeling the Behavior of Aggregate Variables
- Chapter 2 Basic Macroeconomic Models
- Chapter 3 Growth and Capital Accumulation: The Solow Model
- Chapter 4 Optimizing the Saving Decision in a Growth Model
- Chapter 5 Theories of Endogenous Growth
- Chapter 6 Empirical Evidence on Economic Growth
- Chapter 7 Stochastic Growth Models and Real Business Cycles
- Chapter 8 Money, Inflation, Growth, and Cycles
- Chapter 9 Keynesian Models of Aggregate Demand
- Chapter 10 Imperfect Competition and Real and Nominal Price Rigidity
- Chapter 11 Aggregate Supply with Imperfect Information
- Chapter 12 Aggregate Supply with Sticky Prices
- Chapter 13 Empirical Evidence on Aggregate Supply Models and Business Cycles
- Chapter 14 Models of Unemployment
- Chapter 15 Models of Investment Behavior
- Chapter 16 Models of Consumption Behavior
- Chapter 17 Monetary Policy
- Chapter 18 Fiscal Policy