Dynamic Macroeconomics

An advanced textbook from MIT Press by Professor George Alogoskoufis

Lecture Slides

These lecture slides are based on the graduate course Macroeconomic Theory taught by Professor George Alogoskoufis. This is a fifteen 3-hour lecture course based on the textbook Dynamic Macroeconomics.

The website for the course contains lecture summaries, lecture slides and additional exercises and resources.

Downloadable Powerpoint files for the lecture slides can be accessed below:

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Introduction to the Intertemporal Approach

Lecture 3: Key Facts about Long-Run Economic Growth

Lecture 4: Savings, Investment and Economic Growth: The Solow Model

Lecture 5: The Representative Household Model of Economic Growth

Lecture 6: Models of Overlapping Generations

Lecture 7: Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth

Lecture 8: Money, Inflation and Economic Growth

Lecture 9: Externalities, Human Capital Accumulation and Endogenous Technical Change

Lecture 10: Key Facts about Aggregate Fluctuations

Lecture 11: Dynamic Stochastic Models and Rational Expectations

Lecture 12: The Stochastic Growth Model of Aggregate Fluctuations

Lecture 13: Keynesian Models and the Phillips Curve

Lecture 14: A New Keynesian Model with Periodic Wage Contracts

Lecture 15: Matching Frictions and Equilibrium Unemployment