(1) Some simple models with forward looking behaviour.
- IS-LM and Rational Expectations: the Blanchard model: Blanchard & Fischer, Ch. 10
- Exchange Rates: the Dornbusch model: Blanchard & Fischer, Ch. 10, Sect. 10.4
(2) Consumption, with an introduction to Dynamic Programming.
- Blanchard & Fischer (1989): Par.5.1, p.214-221, Ch.5.
- Bagliano & Bertola (2004): Ch.1: available online at: http://www.oup.co.uk/pdf/0-19-926682-4.pdf
- Bagliano & Bertola (2001): Ch.1 (Appendix)
- Blanchard & Fischer (1989): Par.6.2.1-6.2.3, Ch. 6, Sect.2.
(3) Asset Equations and the Labour Market: Efficiency Wages, Search & Matching.
- Shapiro & Stiglitz (1984), “Equilibrium unemployment as a worker discipline device”, American Economic Review, p.433-444.
- Romer (2012), Advanced Macroeconomics (4th edition), Cap 10, Sect. 10.4.
- Romer (2012), Advanced Macroeconomics (4th edition), Cap 10, Sect. 10.6.
- Diamond P. (1982), "Aggregate Demand Management in Search Equilibrium", Journal of Political Economy, p.881-894.
- Blanchard & Fischer (1989), Sect.9.5., Cap.9.
(4) Building blocks for Growth Theory: Overlapping Generations Models (OLG) and the Ramsey Model.
- Blanchard & Fischer (1989): Sect.3.1., Ch.3.
- Romer (2012), Advanced Macroeconomics (4th edition), Ch.2, Part B (the Diamond model): p.77-92.
- Barro & Sala-I-Martin (1995): Economic Growth, McGraw-Hill: Mathematical Appendix: Sect.1.3, p.498-510.
- Blanchard & Fischer (1989): Sect.2.1, Ch.2. (Ramsey model).
(5) Monopolistic Competition, Nominal and Real Rigidities.
- Blanchard & Fischer (1989), Lectures on Macroeconomics, Ch. 8, Sect. 8.1 (simplified version of the Blanchard-Kiyotaki model)
- Akerlof and Yellen (1985), "A Near-Rational Model of the Business Cycle with Wage and Price Inertia", Quarterly Journal of Economics, p. 823 - 838
- Romer (2012), Advanced Macroeconomics (4th edition), Ch. 6, Part C: Sect. 6.5, 6.6, 6.7.
(6) Introduction to Vector Autoregression (VAR) and DSGE Models.
- Identifying the impact of money shocks: some hints on VAR analysis: M. Enders, Sects. 5.5-5.8
- The standard New Keynesian DSGE Model: Walsh (2017), Ch. 8.
(7) Additional topics.
- Coordination Failures and Multiple Equilibria: Cooper and John (1988), "Coordinating Coordination Failures in Keynesian Models", Quarterly Journal of Economics, p.441-463.
- Credit cycles and aggregate fluctuations: Kiyotaki & Moore (1997), Journal of Political Economy