Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung 2: Übung: Computational Behavioral Macroeconomics

Dozent/in:

Kangkan Choudhury

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, All students are requested to bring their own laptop for this course.

Termine:

Do, 12:00 - 14:00, F21/02.41

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Courses will be held in person as long as it is possible given the university’s guidelines, the same holds for the tutorials if the room capacities allow it.

Inhalt:

This course focuses on advanced topics in macroeconomics linked in particular to the role of bounded rationality, expectations formation and different types of agents‘ heterogeneity in macroeconomic activity, and the consequences of such for the design of economic policies. Students will be made familiar with programming languages commonly used for the analysis of these topics such as Julia and MATLAB/Octave. Students will be required to write and modify codes to solve and simulate macroeconomic models.