Part 1 - Professor Blanchard
I. Shocks
Vector Autoregression Models (VARs). Wold Representations and Their Limits (PDF)
Structural VARs (PDF)
A Few Major Shocks or Many? Factor Models (PDF)
Technology versus Demand Shocks (PDF)
The Great Moderation (PDF)
II. Unemployment, Institutions, and Shocks
Basic (non-cyclical) Facts about Unemployment Flows (PDF)
Flows, Bargaining, and Unemployment (PDF)
Role of Institutions I: Employment Protection and the Labor Market (PDF)
Role of Institutions II: Trust, Hold-ups, and Bargaining (PDF)
"Culture" and Labor Market Outcomes (PDF)
Cyclical Movements in Unemployment (PDF - 1.3 MB)
Productivity Growth versus Unemployment. Trying to put Things Together (PDF)
III. Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models (DSGE Models)
Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models
Part 2 - Professor Lorenzoni
I. Imperfect Information and Demand Shocks
Imperfect Information and Demand Shocks
Day 1 (PDF 1)
Day 2 (PDF 2)
Day 3 (PDF 3 - 1.3 MB)
II. Financial Frictions and Investment
Financial Frictions: Limited Pledgeability and Richer Models (PDF)
Q Theory (PDF)
Bubbly Asset Prices and Investment (PDF)
III. Liquidity and Aggregate Activity
Limited Supply of Liquidity
Search Models
Countercyclical Liquidity Premia (PDF)
Liquidation and Asset Prices (PDF)