Economics
ECON 221B Advanced Methods in Macroeconomics II
Covers major issues in empirical macroeconomics, focusing on structural vector auto-regressions (VARs) and solution and estimation of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models. Topics include: recursive identification; long-run restrictions; sign-restrictions; Bayesian estimation of DSGE models; model comparisons; non-linear solution methods for DSGE models; particle filters and other advanced topics related to empirical macroeconomics.