UCL - Research Seminar I: Macroeconomics

[ECON2161]

[30h] 5 credits

Teacher(s): Raouf Boucekkine, David De la Croix

Language: English

Level: Second

Aims
Main themes
Content and teaching methods
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Aims

The seminar aims at bringing students to the frontiers of research in a particular field, and to train them in defin-ing and conducting a research topic. The focus is on using tools to answer a research questions and to read "be-tween the lines" some of the main contributions to the topics considered.

Main themes

A few topics (around three), in continuation of the macroeconomic courses, will be selected at the beginning of the course. The first lectures will consist in ex-catedra expositions by the professor(s) to introduce to the topics, with the associated advanced literature,key issues and open questions and recommended readings. These lec-tures will be followed by students' seminars. These seminars will consist of reading reports of one of two re-lated seminal contributions, plus a discussion and eventually an extension proposal.

Content and teaching methods

The papers assigned to the students generally include theoretical models and ideally empirical assessments. The students should be in principle ready to deal with both.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Prerequisite : Advanced Macro I

Evaluation : Based on presentation and discussion of existing papers.

Course materials : List of recommended readings