14.772 Development Economics: Macroeconomics (Spring 2013, MIT OCW) | Economics

14.772 Development Economics: Macroeconomics

14.772 Development Economics: Macroeconomics (Spring 2013, MIT OCW). Instructor: Professor Robert M. Townsend. This course emphasizes dynamic models of growth and development. Topics covered include: migration, modernization, and technological change; static and dynamic models of political economy; the dynamics of income distribution and institutional change; firm structure in developing countries; development, transparency, and functioning of financial markets; privatization; and banks and credit market institutions in emerging markets. (from ocw.mit.edu)

Lecture 01 - Finance, Growth, and Volatility

Lecture 02 - Micro-Founded Macro Models

Lecture 03 - Growth, TFP, and Inequality

Lecture 04 - Growth, TFP, Domestic and International Capital Flows

Lecture 05 - Measurement in Development

Lecture 06 - Insurance

Lecture 07 - Capital Asset Pricing

Lecture 08 - Macro Approaches to Consumption Smoothing and Risk Sharing

Lecture 09 - Labor and Development

Lecture 10 - Dynamic Financial Constraints

Lecture 11 - Evaluation of a Large Scale Microfinance Experiment

Lecture 12 - From Reduced Form to Structural Evaluation

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14.772 Development Economics: Macroeconomics
Instructor: Professor Robert M. Townsend. Lecture Notes. Assignments and Solutions. This course emphasizes dynamic models of growth and development.