Syllabus/achievement requirements

Core curriculum

David Romer: Advanced Macroeconomics, 3rd ed, 2006. McGraw-Hill. Chapter 1, 2, 4, 5.1, 5.3-5.6, 7, 8.1-8.6, 9.1-9.2, 9.4, 9.8-9.9, 11.1-11.5, 11.8-11.10 (or corresponding chapters in earlier editions).

Dirk Krueger: Quantitative Macroeconomics: An Introduction, http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/sv/oekonomi/ECON4310/h12/undervisningsmateriale/krueger-2007.pdf.

Stephen Williamson: Notes on Macroeconomic Theory, 1999. Unpublished, University of Iowa. chapters 1-3, 5-6. http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~swilliam/courses/notes06.pdf.

Asbj?rn R?dseth: A short lecture note on fiscal policy and pension systems in overlapping generation models (to be distributed at the start of the semester).

Blanchard, O: European unemployment: The evolution of facts and ideas, Economic Policy 21:5-59, 2006.

Additional literature

The Facts of Economic Growth

National Income and Product Account

A list of further readings will be made available as the semester starts.