Macroeconomics (I), Autumn 2025

Course number: 11410ECON309102

Time: R3R4Rn

Room: TSMC Building 224

Syllabus: pdf version

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Table of Content

• Grade
• Course Schedule
• Lecture Notes
• Some Videos

Grade

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Course Schedule

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Lecture Notes

• Note on Julia
• Julia Syntax and Algorithm
• Review for Math
• Lecture 1: Introduction
  • Lucas critique:
    • Wiki: Lucas critique
  • Friedman critique:
    • Wiki: the methodology of positive economics
    • The methodology of positive economics
  • What is HP-filter:
    • Introduction - HP Filters
• Lecture 2: Economic Aggregates
  • Chain-weighing: The New Approach to Measuring GDP (Current Issues in Economics and Finance)
  • Answering Question: The Long-Run Effects of Federal Budget Deficitson National Saving and Private Domestic Investment
• Lecture 3: Business Cycle Measurement
  • Answering Question: What’s the difference between correlation and beta in finance
    • The concept of beta comes from the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), and this is a good review paper about it: The Capital Asset Pricing Model
• Lecture 4: Representative Consumer, Preference and Constraints
  • What Do You Want? - The Notebook (4/6) Movie CLIP (2004) HD
• Lecture 5: Representative Consumer, Optimization and Application
• Lecture 6: Numerical Example
• Lecture 7: Representative Firm
• Lecture 8: Competitive Equilibrium, One-Period Model
• Lecture 9: Social Planner’s Problem
• Lecture 10: Examples on Competitive Equilibrium and Social Planner’s Problem
• Lecture 11: Distorting Taxes and the Welfare Theorems
• Lecture 12: Two-Period Consumer Problem
  • Income taxes in Canada and the United States
• Lecture 13: Competitive Equilibrium, Two-Period Model
• Lecture 14: The Real Business Cycle Model Part 1: Consumer
• Lecture 15: The Real Business Cycle Model Part 2: Firm
• Lecture 16: The Real Business Cycle Model Part 3: Competitive Equilibrium
• Lecture 17: The Real Business Cycle Model Part 4: Formal Examples
  • The Fed Is In the Red. Here’s Why. | WSJ
• Lecture 18: The Real Business Cycle Model Part 5: Application and Matching Data
• Introduction to Dynamic Programming
• Asset Pricing in Endowment Economy
• Asset Pricing in Production Economy

Some Videos

• The Point of No Return’ Ramin Karimloo & Sierra Boggess | The Phantom of The Opera
• Saint-Saëns: Melodie sans Paroles
• Oasis - Don’t Look Back In Anger
  • Ironically, and I quote, “Oasis broke up following a fight between Liam and Noel at the Rock en Seine festival near Paris on Aug. 28, 2009, which resulted in the show’s cancellation. That same day, Noel announced his departure from the band with a now-deleted statement on the Oasis website. “
  • Reference
• “One Last Time” - Hamilton At The White House
• Terence Tao on how we measure the cosmos | Part 1

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