Diary, 8200-24,
Topics in Quantitative Macro,
José Víctor Ríos Rull

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

7 Mar 11

• All the students will present briefly an update of the previous presentation highlighting the core of the topic at hand.
  
• I continue talking about Credit Scores. How to map it to data.
  
• I also talk about Banking Dynamics and Capital Regulation. GE Version
  
• Latest Version of Banking Model
  
• Latest Version of Model with Endogenous Wages and Wealth
  

6 Feb 26

• Ethan will talk about some issues regarding money using these slides
  
• I will continue the model with search frictions in the labor market and may start talking about Banking Dynamics and Capital Regulation. GE Version
  

5 Feb 19

• We talk briefly about the homework again.
  
• Ali talks about his project.
  
• Aina talks about her project.
  
• We keep talking about the joint determination of wealth and wages. Some is still in these slides.
  
  • Teaching Slides OLG
    
  • Handout Slides OLG
    
• Joint wage determination of wages and wealth with and without mismatch.
  
  • Rep Agent Version I
    
  • Rep Agent Version II
    
• I start talking about Credit Scores
  

4 Feb 12

• We talk about the homework and what does it mean to compute something.
  
• I go over a model to estimate what men and women like in each other
  
  • The Demographic Transition and Long-Term Marriage Trends
    

3 Feb 5

• We cover the part of endogenous productivity in detail
  
• We move to some topics on OLG below and plan for the third class,
  
  • Teaching Slides OLG
    
  • Handout Slides OLG
    

2 Jan 29.

• We welcome Aina.
  
• We retake and finish the discussion of why heterogeneity is central to modern Macroeconomics. In particular we look at the details of the model and we will discuss what each one will be working on.
  

1 Jan 22.

• 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
    
• We also talked briefly about computational issues.