The Structural Transformation and Economic Growth research programme is offering a virtual course entitled “Key Concepts in Macro Development” for the spring of 2021.
5 February – 7 May
Module 1: Introduction
• Friday, February 5, Lecture 1: Empirical overview of macro development – Richard Rogerson (Princeton) – Presentation Slides – Q&A
• Friday, February 12, Lecture 2: Development accounting: methods and findings – Julieta Caunedo (Cornell and CEPR) – Presentation Slides – Link to the repository – Q&A
Thursday, February 18, Supplemental Lecture: Human capital in developing countries – Todd Schoellman (Minneapolis Fed) – Presentation Slides – Q&A
Module 2: Structural transformation
• Friday, February 19, Lecture 3: Key theories – Berthold Herrendorf (Arizona State) – Presentation Slides – Q&A – TA Session
• Friday, February 26, Lecture 4: Structural transformation, home production, and labour markets – L. Rachel Ngai (LSE and CEPR) – Presentation Slides – Q&A
• Thursday, March 11, Supplemental lecture: Labour market frictions and development –Mark Rosenzweig (Yale) – Presentation Slides – Q&A
Module 3: Misallocation
• Friday, March 12, Lecture 5: Firm-level misallocation: benchmark model and early results – Richard Rogerson (Princeton) – Presentation Slides – Q&A
• Thursday, March 18, Supplemental lecture: Political Institutions and development – Leonard Wantchekon (Princeton) – Presentation Slides – Q&A
• Friday, March 19, Lecture 6: Recent applications and advance –Pete Klenow (Stanford) – Presentation Slides – Q&A
Module 4: Agricultural productivity
• Thursday, March 25, Lecture 7: Agricultural productivity gap: measurement and explanations – David Lagakos (Boston University) – Presentation Slides – Q&A – TA Session
• Friday, March 26, Supplemental lecture: Technology diffusion and adoption – Chris Tonetti (Stanford) – Presentation Slides – Q&A
• Thursday, April 1, Lecture 8: Barriers to technology adoption: what we know from micro empirics – Lauren Falcao Bergquist (Michigan and CEPR) – Presentation Slides – Q&A – TA Session
Module 5: Risk and heterogeneous agents
• Thursday, April 8, Supplemental lecture: Migration and risk –Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale) – Presentation Slides – Q&A – TA Session
• Friday, April 9, Lecture 9: Heterogeneous agents models and methods – Ben Moll (LSE and CEPR) – Presentation Slides – Q&A – TA Session
• Friday, April 16, Lecture 10: Applications to development – Yongseok Shin (Washington U. in St. Louis) – Presentation Slides – Q&A
• Thursday, April 22, Supplemental lecture: Demographic transition and development – Michèle Tertilt (Mannheim and CEPR) – Presentation Slides – Reading List – Q&A
Module 6: Spatial frictions
• Friday, April 23, Lecture 11: Basic trade/spatial model – Melanie Morten (Stanford and CEPR) – Presentation Slides – Q&A
• Friday, April 30, Lecture 12: Applications to development – David Atkin (MIT and CEPR) – Presentation Slides – Q&A
• Thursday, May 6, Supplemental lecture: Trade, FDI, and development – Natalia Ramondo (Boston U.) – Presentation Slides – Q&A
• Friday, May 7, Supplemental lecture: Urbanization and development – Klaus Desmet (Southern Methodist and CEPR) – Presentation Slides – Q&A
From: https://steg.cepr.org/
