OSM Lab: Economics Section Materials

This directory in the repository contains all the materials for the Economics section of the OSM Lab Boot Camp.

Schedule

The economics lectures for the OSM Lab will be held from 10:00-11:50am, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in Saieh Hall, Room 247.

Week 1

Date	Day	Topic	Instructor	Materials	Problem Set
6-18	M	Dynamic programming	Jason DeBacker	DP Notes	Econ Prob. Set 1
6-19	T				due M, 6-25, 11pm
6-20	W	Dynamic programming	Jason DeBacker	DP Notes
6-21	Th
6-22	F	Dynamic programming	Jason DeBacker	DP Notes

Week 2

Date	Day	Topic	Instructor	Materials	Problem Set
6-25	M	Stochastic processes	John Stachurski	Notes and	Econ Prob. Set 2
6-26	T			Notebooks	due M, 7-2, 11pm
6-27	W	Ergodicity	John Stachurski
6-28	Th
6-29	F	Stationarity	John Stachurski

Week 3

Date	Day	Topic	Instructor	Materials	Problem Set
7-2	M	Overlapping generations model	Richard Evans	ED (2018, Ch. 2)	Econ Prob. Set 3
7-3	T				due M, 7-9, 11pm
7-4	W	NO CLASSES: HOLIDAY	NO CLASSES: HOLIDAY	NO CLASSES: HOLIDAY
7-5	Th
7-6	F	Overlapping generations model	Richard Evans	ED (2018, Ch. 2)

Week 4

Date	Day	Topic	Instructor	Materials	Problem Set
7-9	M	DSGE	Chase Coleman	DSGE notes	Econ Prob. Set 4
7-10	T				due M, 7-16, 11pm
7-11	W	DSGE: Linear approx.	Chase Coleman	Linear notes
7-12	Th
7-13	F	DSGE: Perturbation	Chase Coleman	Perturb. notes

Week 5

Date	Day	Topic	Instructor	Materials	Problem Set
7-16	M	Structural estimation: MLE	Richard Evans	MLE notebook	Econ Prob. Set 5
7-17	T				due M, 7-23, 11pm
7-18	W	Structural estimation: GMM	Richard Evans	GMM notebook
7-19	Th
7-20	F	Structural estimation: SMM	Richard Evans	SMM notebook

Week 6

Date	Day	Topic	Instructor	Materials	Problem Set
7-23	M	Asset pricing	Scott Condie		Econ Prob. Set 6
7-24	T				due M, 7-30, 11pm
7-25	W	Asset pricing	Scott Condie
7-26	Th
7-27	F	Asset pricing	Scott Condie

Week 7

Date	Day	Topic	Instructor	Materials	Problem Set
7-30	M	Heterogeneous agent models	Christopher Carrol	Notes	Econ Prob. Set 7
7-31	T				due Th, 8-2, 6pm
8-1	W	Heterogeneous agent models	Christopher Carrol
8-2	Th	Heterogeneous agent models	Matthew White
8-3	F	Conclusion: Hwk due

References

• Evans, Richard W. and Jason DeBacker, Overlapping Generations Models for Policy Analysis: Theory and Computation, (2018, draft).