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Saturday, May 16, 2009

i love it, always

how sad that today is the last lecture of Advanced Macroeconomics with my inspiring lecturer. though i'll still have to bear with the its final exam on May 29 which i don't want to think about right now. i had great great great times learning chapters form William Scarth in this class *also Dornbusch, Barro, and Romer*.

starting with Microeconomics Foundation: firms in standard macro model, household in standard macro model, and labor market. Structural Equation: introduction of Expectation Augmented Phillips Curve for AS. Classical and Keynesian *with one s, of course* Model: labor market for AS. classical dichotomy, money-wage rigidity and price rigidity. Expectation: perfect oresight, rational expectation, forget another one.

and then go on with Rational Expectation and Lucas Critique: how not stupid are the agents, how microeconomic foundation underpinning macroeconomics in the behavioral assumptions (maximizing utility and minimizing cost). Intrinsic Dynamics: Ricardian Equivalence concept which doesn't change consumption behaviour in normal condition, Budget Deficits and Government budget constraint, also how it finance it (bond issuing or money creation). Open Economy: Mundell-Fleming model, nominal and fixed exchange rates, how exchange rates regime affect the effectiveness of economic policies. Growth Theory: Solow model (F,K,A), exogenous of technology, knowledge, etc., and the Sticky Wages, Menu-Cost, Union etc.

All I can say is I LOVE ADVANCED MACROECONOMICS!!!


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