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2020 - 2021 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ECON 478 - Empirical Macroeconomics with Micro Data

Credits: (3)
Prerequisite(s): ECON 303  and ECON 304  and ECON 308  and MATH 112  
College Curriculum: COLL 400
This course will introduce students to modern business cycle macroeconomics with a focus on using micro-data to inform and discipline macroeconomic models. It will include a survey of business cycle models that help us understand the effects of policy. The course will cover a variety of empirical methods and data sources that can be used to test, calibrate, and develop models for macroeconomics. We will discuss identification of macroeconomic outcomes through structural, narrative, and cross-sectional approaches. Specific topics will include fiscal and monetary policy, firm investment behavior, the effects of uncertainty shocks, and financial frictions.