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Instructor: Karl Shell, ks22@cornell.edu; 255-5277; 402 Uris Hall; www.karlshell.com Assistants:
Problem Sets Problem Set 1 (Due Friday, February 6, 2004) Problem Set 2 (Due Monday, February 9, 2004) Problem Set 3 (Due Friday, February 13, 2004) Problem Set 4 (Due Friday, February 20, 2004) Problem Set 5 (Due Friday, February 27, 2004) Problem Set 6 (Due Wednesday, March 10, 2004) Problem Set 7 (Due Monday, April 5, 2004) Problem Set 8 (Due Saturday, April 10, 2004) Problem Set 9 (Due Monday, May 3, 2004) Problem Set 10 (Due Wednesday, May 5, 2004) First Midterm Quiz: Second Midterm Quiz: Final Exam: Macroeconomics Qualifying Exams: Monday, June 14, 2004 Thursday, August 5, 2004 Basic Reading List A. Introduction J. Hicks, 2.0.CO;2-E" target="_blank">"Mr. Keynes and the Classics," Econometrica, April 1937, 147-159. K. Arrow, "The Role of Securities in the Optimal Allocation of Risk-Bearing," Review of Economic Studies, April 1964, 91-96. R. Lucas, "Asset Prices in an Exchange Economy," Econometrica, November 1978, 1429-1445. Y. Balasko and K. Shell, "Lump-Sum Taxation: The Static Economy," in General Equilibrium, Growth, and Trade: The Legacy of Lionel McKenzie, II. (R. Becker, M. Boldrin, R. Jones and W. Thomson, eds.) New York: Academic Press, 1993, 168-180. W. Baumol, "The Transactions Demand for Cash: an Inventory Theoretic Approach," Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 1952, 545-556. J. Tobin, "The Interest-Elasticity of the Transactions Demand for Cash," Review of Economics and Statistics, August 1956, 241-247. H. Uzawa, "On
a Two-Sector Model of Economic Growth II," Review of Economic
Studies, 1963, 105-118. B. Overlapping Generations K. Shell and B. Smith, "Overlapping-Generations Model and Monetary Economics," in the New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance (J. Eatwell, M. Milgate, and P. Newman, eds.), Vol. 3, London: Macmillan, 1992, 104-109. Paul A. Samuelson, "An Exact Consumption-Loan Model of Interest with or without the Social Contrivance of Money," Journal of Political Economy, December 1958, 467-482. D. Cass and K. Shell, "In Defense of a Basic Approach," in Models of Monetary Economics, (J. Kareken and N. Wallace, eds.) Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, 1980, 251-260. P. Diamond, "National Debt in a Neoclassical Growth Model", American Economic Review, December 1965, 1126-1150. K. Shell, "Notes on the Economics of Infinity," Journal of Political Economy, September/October 1971, 1002-1011. D. Gale, "Pure Exchange Equilibrium of Dynamic Economic Models," Journal of Economic Theory, February 1973, 12-36. C. Extrinsic Uncertainty R. Shiller, "Do Stock Prices Move Too Much to be Justified by Subsequent Changes in Dividends?," American Economic Review, June 1981, 421-436. K. Shell, "Monnaie et Allocation Intertemporelle," [title and abstract in French, text in English] mimeo, Séminaire d'Econométrie Roy-Malinvaud, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, November 21, 1977. (Forthcoming in Macroeconomic Dynamics.) D. Cass and K. Shell, "Do Sunspots Matter?" Journal of Political Economy, April 1983, 193-227. C. Azariadis, "Self-Fulfilling Prophecies," Journal of Economic Theory, December 1981, 380-396. K. Shell and R. Wright, "Indivisibilities, Lotteries and Sunspot Equilibria," Economic Theory, January 1993, 1-17. K. Shell, "Sunspot Equilibrium," in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics (J. Eatwell, M. Milgate, and P. Newman, eds.), Vol. 4, New York: Macmillan, 1987, 549-551. Karl Shell and Bruce Smith, "Sunspot
Equilibrium", in the New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and
Finance (J. Eatwell, M. Milgate, and P. Newman, eds.), Vol. 3, London:
Macmillan, 601-605. D. Growth D. Cass, "Optimum Growth in an Aggregative Model of Capital Accumulation," Review of Economic Studies, July 1965, 233-240. K. Shell, "Toward a Theory of Inventive Activity and Capital Accumulation," American Economic Review, May 1966, 62-68. K. Shell, "Inventive Activity, Industrial Organization and Economic Growth," in Models of Economic Growth, (J. Mirrlees and N. Stern) Macmillan and Halsted, 1973, 77-100 P. Romer, "Increasing Returns and Long-Run Growth," Journal of Political Economy, October 1986, 1002-1037. P. Romer, "Endogenous
Technological Change," Journal of Political Economy,
October 1990, S71-S102. E. Banking D. Diamond, and P. Dybvig, "Bank Runs, Deposit Insurance, and Liquidity," Journal of Political Economy, June 1983, 401-19. F. Money and Search N. Kiyotaki and R. Wright, "On Money as a Medium of Exchange," Journal of Political Economy, August 1989: 927-954. Supplemental Reading List SA. Introduction J. Peck, "Non-Connectedness of the Set of Equilibrium Money Prices: The Static Economy," Journal of Economic Theory, December 1987, 348-354. R. Garratt, "The Connectedness of the Set of Equilibrium Money Prices Depends on the Choice of the Numeraire," Journal of Economic Theory, February 1992, 206-217. P. Diamond and J. Mirrlees, "Optimal Taxation and Public Production I: Production Efficiency," American Economic Review, March 1971, 8-27. A. Ando and K. Shell, "Demand for Money in a General Portfolio Model in the Presence of an Asset that Dominates Money," Appendix to Chapter 12 in The Brookings Model: Perspective and Recent Developments, (G. Fromm and L. R. Klein, eds.) North Holland, 1975, 560-563. K. Shell, "Applications of Pontryagin's Maximum Principle to Economics," in Mathematical Systems Theory and Economics I, (H. W. Kuhn and G. P. Szego, eds.) Springer Velag, 1969, 255-270. T. Sargent, Dynamic Macroeconomic Theory, Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1987, Chapter 3, 92-129. SB. Introduction Sargent, Chapters 7 & 8, 231-337. D. Cass, M. Okuno and I. Zilcha, "The Role of Money in Supporting the Pareto Optimality of Competitive Equilibrium in Consumption-Loan Type Models," Journal of Economic Theory, February 1979, 41-80. Y. Balasko and K. Shell, "The Overlapping-Generations Model, I: The Case of Pure Exchange without Money, " Journal of Economic Theory, December 1980, 281-306. Y. Balasko and K. Shell, "The Overlapping-Generations Model, II: The Case of Pure Exchange with Money," Journal of Economic Theory, February 1981, 112-142. See also "Erratum," Journal of Economic Theory, December 1981, 471. Y. Balasko and K. Shell, "Lump-Sum Taxes and Transfers: Public Debt in the Overlapping-Generations Model," in Essays in Honor of Kenneth J. Arrow, Vol. II: Equilibrium Analysis (W. Heller, R. Starr, and D. Starrett, eds.), New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986, Chapter 5, 121-153. C. Ghiglino and K. Shell, "The
Economic Effects of Restrictions on Government Budget Deficits," Journal of Economic Theory, September 2000, 106-137. SC. Extrinsic Uncertainty C. Azariadis and R. Guesnerie, "Sunspots and Cycles", Review of Economic Studies, October 1986, 725-738. G. Antinolfi and T. Keister, Options and Sunspots in a Simple Monetary Economy, Economic Theory, 1998, 295-315. J. Peck and K. Shell, "Market Uncertainty: Correlated and Sunspot Equilibria in Imperfectly Comptetitive Economies," The Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 58(5), October 1991, 1011-1019. SD. Growth R. Courant, Differential and Integral Calculus, Chapter VII (Volume 2) on "Calculus of Variations," New York: Wiley - Interscience, 1968, 491-521. L. Pontryagin et al., The Mathematical Theory of Optimal Processes, New York: Wiley - Interscience, 1962. K. Shell, "Applications of Pontryagin's Maximum Principle to Economics," in Mathematical Systems Theory and Economics I, (H. W. Kuhn and G. P. Szego, eds.) Springer Velag, 1969, 241-292. K. Shell and J. Stiglitz, "The Allocation of Investment in a Dynamic Economy," Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 1967, 592-609. K. Shell, M. Sidrauski, and J. Stiglitz, "Capital
Gains, Income, and Saving," Review of Economic Studies,
January 1969, 15-26. SE. Banking N. Wallace, "Another Attempt to Explain an Illiquid Banking System: The Diamond and Dybvig Model with Sequential Service Taken Seriously," Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Quarterly Review, Fall 1988, 3-16. N. Wallace, "A Banking Model in Which Partial Suspension is Best," Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Quarterly Review, Fall 1990, 11-23. J. Peck and K. Shell, "Equilibrium Bank Runs," Journal of Political Economy, February 2003, 103-123. J. Peck and K. Shell, "Bank Portfolio Restrictions and Equilibrium Bank Runs," Working Paper No. 99-07, Ithaca: Cornell University, Center for Analytic Economics, July 1999. Revised June 2003. SF. Money and Search Sargent, Chapter 2, 57-91. Books on Reserve at 401 Olin Library T. Sargent, Dynamic Macroeconomic Theory, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987. R. Manuelli and T. Sargent, Exercises in Dynamic Macroeconomic Theory, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987. L. Pontryagin et al., The Mathematical Theory of Optimal Processes, New York: Wiley - Interscience, 1962. R. Courant, Differential and Integral Calculus, New York: Wiley
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