Diary, 8200-23,
Topics in Quantitative Macro,
José Víctor Ríos Rull

A class by class ex-post diary and a forecast of next class

1. We may meet again. No date yet.

7 Feb 27

• Young Ahn talks about issues of the gender wage gap using these slides
  
• Thomas talks about his research using these slides
  
• Marlon tells us about his concerns
  
• I continue talking about Credit Scores. How to map it to data.
  
• I may continue talking about wage dispersion with heterogeneous agents while thinking on how to use the methods described by Marlon.
  
  • Het Agent Version
    

6 Feb 20

• Ruben tells us about the important issues in student loans for college
  
• Luigi talks about some bad predictions of the Aiyagari model Job stability, earnings dynamics, and life-cycle savings (Kuhn and Plog 2020)
  
• I will likely talk about international (lack of) coordination of taxation in the presence of lot's of intangible capital.
  

5 Feb 13

• Marlon tells us about the Sequence-Space Jacobian methods. Thanks Marlon. He used these slides that build on Ludwig Straub's own slides (thanks Ludwig).
  
• See-Yu talks about his plans to work on the varying wage profiles by cohort.
  
• I start talking about Credit Scores
  

4 Feb 6

• Joint wage determination of wages and wealth with and without mismatch.
  
  • Rep Agent Version I
    
  • Rep Agent Version II
    

3 Jan 30

• We move to some topics on OLG below and plan for the third class,
  
  • Teaching Slides OLG
    
  • Handout Slides OLG
    
• I went over a model to estimate what men and women like in each other
  
  • The Demographic Transition and Long-Term Marriage Trends
    

2 Jan 23.

• We welcome the late joiners and ask them what their interests are.
  
• We retake and finish the discussion of why heterogeneity is central to modern Macroeconomics.
  

1 Jan 11.

• We talk about what the course is about.
  
• We discuss what are the possible topics to cover. I ask for volunteers to start presenting/working on various things.
  
• I start the course proper discussing why heterogeneity in Macro.
  
  • Teaching Slides
    
  • Handout Slides Plen
    
• I continue with a life cycle model and some facts and issues about labor, health and families: