Lecture Notes and Short Texts in Advanced Macroeconomics

Guide to the subsystem of the General Algebraic Modelling System (GAMS) that can be used to build and solve general equilibrium models. Sections (with gemoetric and algebraic explanation of the model followed by worked examples in GAMS/MPSGE) on: Introduction to Demand Theory; Constant Elasticity of Substitution functions; General Equilibrium with Phblicv Goods; Comparing the Performance of Flexible Functional Forms; Competitive General Equilibrium and Economic History; and a 'small library' of other microeconomic examples.

Materials from a one-semester 2014 course, including lecture handouts and problem set.

This course web page is a syllabus with embedded links to .pdf readings. It supports a series of public finance seminars, co-ordinated by Alan J. Auerbach of University of California, Berkeley in 2004.

This course web page is a syllabus with embedded links to .pdf readings. It supports a series of seminars in macroeconomics as organised by David Romer of University of California, Berkeley, in 2004.

This course web page is a syllabus with embedded links to readings in .pdf. It supports a series of seminars on planning and development as organised by Pranab Bardhan of University of California, Berkeley, in 2004.

This is a 17-page PDF book chapter from 1997 intended as informal advice for anyone on the process of making a model, especially graduate students. It covers sources of inspiration, refinement, and the use of existing literature.