Economics 570, Fall 2009

Syllabus

Lecture Notes – Lucas (2000)

Lecture Notes – A2

Problem Set 1: Understanding PPP exchange rates. Due Tuesday September 1 in class.

Problem Set 2: Use Matlab to generate a path for the log standard deviation of income levels as in Figure 3 of Lucas (2000), and calculate the actual log standard deviation of income levels from the Penn World Tables for 1960-2000 and include it in the same figure. Due Thursday September 3 in class.

Lecture Notes – A3

Lecture Notes – A8

Lecture Notes – A10

Lecture Notes – A11 * Problem Set 3 due September 29

Lecture Notes – A12

Lecture Notes – A13

Lecture Notes – A14

Eaton and Kortum Notes (still need to clean up)

The Multivariate Frechet

Trade and MP

Gains from Openness