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PIERGALLINI ALESSANDRO
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programma)
Programma del corso
Introduzione
Fatti stilizzati
Macroeconomia di lungo periodo e di breve periodo
Il metodo d'analisi
Strumenti per l'analisi dinamica
Parte I: la crescita economica
Teorie della crescita
Il modello di Harrod-Domar
Il modello di Solow
Il modello di Ramsey
Teorie di crescita endogena
Politiche fiscali e crescita economica
Politiche monetarie e crescita economica
Parte II: le fluttuazioni economiche
Teorie del ciclo economico
Approcci tradizionali
Modelli "Old-Keynesian"
Il Monetarismo
La Nuova Macroeconomia Classica
Il "Real Business Cycle"
Modelli "New-Keynesian"
Parte III: la politica economica
Regole versus discrezionalità
Il modello di Barro-Gordon
Il modello di Clarida, Galí e Gertler
Interazioni tra politiche monetarie e fiscali
La sgradevole aritmetica monetarista: il modello di Sargent e Wallace
La teoria fiscale dei prezzi: il modello di Leeper

Materiale didattico
• A. Piergallini e G. Rodano, Argomenti di Macroeconomia Avanzata, dispense.
Letture di approfondimento
Introduzione
• A. Maddison (1995), Monitoring the World Economy 1820-1992, Paris: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
• S. Basu and A. M. Taylor (1999), Business Cycles in International Historical Perspective, Journal of Economic Perspectives 13, pp. 45-68.
• C. M. Reinhart and K. S. Rogoff (2008), Is the 2007 US Sub-Prime Financial Crisis So Different? An International Historical Comparison, American Economic Review 98, pp. 339-344.
• F. S. Mishkin (2011), Over the Cliff: From the Subprime to the Global Financial Crisis, Journal of Economic Perspectives 25, pp. 49-70.
Per approfondimenti circa gli strumenti matematici per l'analisi economica si consulti A.C. Chiang, Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics, McGraw-Hill, 2005.
Parte I: la crescita economica
Articoli:
• R. F. Harrod (1939), An Essay in Dynamic Theory, Economic Journal 49, pp. 14-33.
• E. D. Domar (1946), Capital Expansion, Rate of Growth, and Employment, Econometrica 14, 137-147.
• R. M. Solow (1956), A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth, Quarterly Journal of Economics 70, pp. 65-94.
• T. W. Swan (1956), Economic Growth and Capital Accumulation, Economic Record 32, pp. 334-361.
• D. Cass (1965), Optimum Growth in an Aggregative Model of Capital Accumulation, Review of Economic Studies 32, pp. 233-240.
• R. E. Lucas (1988), On the Mechanics of Economic Development, Journal of Monetary Economics 22, pp. 3-42.
• G. D. Mankiw, D. Romer and D. N. Weil (1992), A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth, Quarterly Journal of Economics 107, pp. 407-437 ,
• P. Romer (1986), Increasing Returns and Long Run Growth, Journal of Political Economy 94, pp. 1002-1037.
• P. Romer, (1990), Endogenous Technological Change, Journal of Political Economy 98, pp. 71-102.
• R. J. Barro (1990), Government Spending in a Simple Model of Economic Growth, Journal of Political Economy 98, pp. S103-26.
• R. E. Lucas (1993), Making a Miracle, Econometrica 61, pp. 251-272.
• J. Tobin (1965), Money and Economic Growth, Econometrica, 34, pp. 671-684.
• M. Sidrauski (1967a), Rational Choice and Patterns of Growth in a Monetary Economy, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 57, pp. 534-544.
• M. Sidrauski (1967b), Inflation and Economic Growth, Journal of Political Economy, 75, pp. 796-810.
• W. A. Brock (1974), Money and Growth: The case of Long-run Perfect Foresight, International Economic Review 15, pp. 750-777.
• A. Orphanides and R. M. Solow (1990), Money, Inflation and Growth, in B.M. Friedman, F.H. Hahn (eds.), Handbook of Monetary Economics, North-Holland, Amsterdam, Vol. 1, Ch. 6.
• G. T. McCandless and W. E. Weber (1995), Some Monetary Facts, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Quarterly Review, 19, pp. 2-11.
• R. J. Barro (1996), Inflation and Growth, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, 78, pp. 153-169.
Libri di testo:
• P. Aghion and P. Howitt (2009), The Economics of Growth, MIT Press.
• P. Aghion and P. Howitt (1998), Endogenous Growth Theory, MIT Press.
• F. C. Bagliano e G. Bertola (1999) Metodi Dinamici e Fenomeni Macroeconomici, il Mulino.
• S. J. Turnovsky S. J. (2000), Methods of Macroeconomics Dynamics, MIT Press.
• R.J. Barro and X. Sala-i-Martin (2004), Economic Growth, MIT Press.
• D. Romer (2012), Advanced Macroeconomics, McGraw-Hill.
• D. Weil (2012), Economic Growth, Addison Wesley.
Parte II: le fluttuazioni economiche
Articoli:
• R. E. Lucas (1973), Some International Evidence on Output-Inflation Trade-Offs, American Economic Review 63, pp. 326-334.
• R. E. Lucas (1976), Econometric Policy Evaluation: A Critique, in K. Brunner and A. Meltzer (eds.) The Phillips Curve and the Labor Markets, Vol. 1 of Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, Amsterdam, North Holland, pp. 19-46.
• J. F. Muth (1961) Rational Expectations and the Theory of Price Movements, Econometrica 29, pp. 315-335.
• T. J. Sargent and N. Wallace (1976), 'Rational' Expectations, the Optimal Monetary Instrument and the Optimal Money Supply Rule, Journal of Political Economy 83, pp. 241-254.
• S. Fischer (1977), Long-Term Contracts, Rational Expectations, and the Optimal Money Supply Rule, Journal of Political Economy 85, pp. 191-205.
• T. Yun (1996), Nominal Rigidity, Money Supply Endogeneity, and Business Cycles, Journal of Monetary Economics 37, pp. 345-37.
• M. Goodfriend and R. G. King (1997), The New Classical Synthesis and the Role of Monetary Policy, NBER Macroeconomic Annual 12, pp. 231-83.
• B. T. McCallum and E. Nelson (1999), An Optimizing IS-LM Specification for Monetary Policy and Business Cycle Analysis, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 31, pp. 296-316.
• J. Rotemberg and M. Woodford (1997), An Optimizing-Based Econometric Framework for the Evaluation of Monetary Policy, in: Bernanke, B., Rotemberg J. (Eds.), NBER Macroeconomic Annual. The MIT Press, Cambridge MA, pp. 297-346.
• J. Galí (2003), New Perspectives on Monetary Policy, Inflation, and the Business Cycle, in Advances in Economic Theory, edited by: M. Dewatripont, L. Hansen, and S. Turnovsky, 3, 151-197, Cambridge University Press.
• L. J. Christiano, M. Eichenbaum and C. L. Evans (2005), Nominal Rigidities and the Dynamic Effects of a Shock to Monetary Policy, Journal of Political Economy 113, pp. 1-45.
• J. Galí and M. Gertler (2007), Macroeconomic Modeling for Monetary Policy Evaluation, Journal of Economic Perspectives 21, pp. 25-45.
Libri di testo:
• O. J. Blanchard and S. Fischer (1989), Lectures on Macroeconomics, MIT Press.
• B. T. McCallum (1989), Monetary Economics-Theory and Policy, London, Macmillan.
• P. Minford and D. A. Peel (2002), Advanced Macroeconomics: A Primer, E. Elgar.
• B. S. Heijdra and F. van der Ploeg (2002), The Foundations of Modern Macroeconomics, Oxford University Press.
• C. Walsh (2003), Monetary Theory and Policy, MIT Press.
• G. McCandless (2008), The ABCs of RBCs: An Introduction to Dynamic Macroeconomic Models, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
• J. Galí (2008), Monetary Policy, Inflation and the Business Cycle, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• M. Woodford (2003), Interest and Prices, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press.
• D. Romer (2012), Advanced Macroeconomics, McGraw-Hill-Irwin.
Parte III: la politica economica
Articoli:
• F. E. Kydland, and E. C. Prescott (1977), Rules Rather than Discretion: the Inconsistency of Optimal Plans, Journal of Political Economy 85, pp. 473-492.
• R. J. Barro and D. B. Gordon (1983a), A Positive Theory of Monetary Policy in a Natural-Rate Model, Journal of Political Economy 91, pp. 589-610.
• R. J. Barro and D. B. Gordon (1983b), Rules, Discretion, and Reputation in a Model of Monetary Policy, Journal of Monetary Economics 17, pp. 3-20.
• S. Fisher S. (1990), Rules Versus Discretion in Monetary Policy, in B.M. Friedman, F.H. Hahn (eds.), Handbook of Monetary Economics, North-Holland, Amsterdam, Vol. 1, Cap. 21.
• J. B. Taylor (1993), Discretion Versus Policy Rules in Practice, Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, 39, 195-214.
• R. Clarida, J. Galí and M. Gertler (1998), Monetary Policy Rules in Practice: Some International Evidence, European Economic Review 42, pp. 1033-1067.
• R. Clarida, J. Galí and M. Gertler (1999), The Science of Monetary Policy: A New Keynesian Perspective, Journal of Economic Literature 37, pp. 1661-1707.
• R. Clarida, J. Galí and M. Gertler (2000), Monetary Rules and Macroeconomic Stability: Evidence and Some Theory, Quarterly Journal of Economics 15, pp. 147-180.
• T. J. Sargent and N. Wallace (1981), Some Unpleasant Monetarist Arithmetic, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Quarterly Review 5, 1-17.
• E. M. Leeper (1991), Equilibria under ‘Active’ and ‘Passive’ Monetary and Fiscal Policies, Journal of Monetary Economics 27, pp. 129-147.
• C. Sims, C. (1994), A Simple Model for Study of the Determination of the Price Level and the Interactions of Monetary and Fiscal Policy, Economic Theory 4, pp. 381-399.
• M Woodford (1994), Monetary Policy and Price Level Determinacy in a Cash-in-Advance Economy, Economic Theory 4, pp. 345-380.
• M. Woodford (1995), Price-Level Determinacy without Control of a Monetary Aggregate, Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy 53, pp. 1-46.
• L. J. Christiano and T. J. Fitzgerald (2000), Understanding the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level, Economic Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, issue Q II, pp. 2-38.
• J. Benhabib, S. Schmitt-Grohé and M. Uribe (2002), Avoiding Liquidity Traps, Journal of Political Economy 110, pp. 535-563.
• J. Cochrane (2005), Money as Stock, Journal of Monetary Economics 52, pp. 501-528.
• J. Cochrane (2011), Understanding Policy in the Great Recession: Some Unpleasant Fiscal Arithmetic, European Economic Review 55,pp. 2-30.
• T. Davig, E. M. Leeper and T. B. Walker (2011), Inflation and the Fiscal Limit, European Economic Review 55, pp. 31-47.
• M. B. Canzoneri, R. Cumby and B. Diba (2011), The Interaction of Monetary and Fiscal Policy, in B. Friedman. and M Woodford (Eds.), Handbook of Monetary Economics, Amsterdam and Boston: North-Holland/Elsevier, pp. 935-999.
Libri di testo:
• Taylor J. B. (1999), Monetary Policy Rules, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
• M. Woodford (2003), Interest and Prices, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University.
• C. Walsh (2003), Monetary Theory and Policy, MIT Press.Press.
• J. Galí (2008), Monetary Policy, Inflation and the Business Cycle, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
D. Romer (2012), Advanced Macroeconomics, McGraw-Hill-Irwin.