Course on the Formulation, Computation, and Estimation of DSGE



  • Outline of the Course.


  • Notes on Likelihood Inference.

  • Notes on Sufficient Statistic.

  • Assignment I.

  • Solutions to Assignment I.


  • Notes on Monte Carlo Methods.

  • figures.pdf.

  • badrandom.m.

  • randssp.m (needed to run badrandom.m).

  • acceptance.m.

  • acceptance2.m.

  • importancenormal.m.

  • importancet.m.

  • Assignment II.

  • Solutions to Assignment II.

  • normal.m.

  • tstudent.m.


  • Notes on Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods.

  • Notes on Metropolis-Hastings.

  • Notes on Gibbs Sampler.

  • Assignment III.

  • Solutions to Assignment III.

  • normal2.m.

  • normal3.m.

  • normal4.m.


  • Notes for Fourth Class.

  • Estimation of a Sticky Price Model.

  • Assignment IV.

  • Data for Exercise 2 in Assignment IV.

  • Solutions to Assignment IV.

  • Programs for Solutions to Assignment IV.


  • Notes for Fith Class.

  • Estimation of a Sticky Price & Sticky Wage Model.

  • Model Comparison.