Daron Acemoglu

Courses

14.773 Political Economy
Political Economy of Institutions and Development
Spring 2013

Syllabus

Lecture 1: Introduction and Overview
Lectures 2 and 3: Static Voting Models
Lectures 4 and 5: Introduction to Dynamic Voting and Constitutions
Lecture 6: Economic Institutions under Elite Domination
Lecture 7: The Role of the State and Different Political Regimes
Lecture 8: Instutional Change and Democratization
Lectures 9 and 10: Persistence and Disfunctional Democracies
Lectures 11 and 12: Information, Beliefs and Politics
Lecture 13: Culture, Values and Cooperation

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14.773 Political Economy
Political Economy of Institutions and Development
Spring 2012

Syllabus

Lecture Notes

Lectures 1 and 2: Static Voting Models
Lectures 3, 4 and 5: Introduction to Dynamic Voting and Constitutions
Lecture 6: Economic Institutions under Elite Domination
Lecture 7: The Role of the State and Different Political Regimes
Lecture 8: Institutional Change and Democratizaton
Lecture 9: Persistence of Elites and Intstitutions
Lectures 10 and 11: Information, Beliefs and Politics
Lectures 12 and 13: Culture, Values and Cooperation

14.452 - Economic Growth
Spring 2012

Syllabus

Lecture 1 (part 1): Stylized Facts of Economic Growth and Development
Lecture 1 (part 2), Lecture 2, Lecture 3 (part 1): The Solow Growth Model
Lecture 3 (part 2): The Solow Growth Model and the Data
Lecture 4: Foundations of Neoclassical Growth
Lecture 5: Neoclassical Growth
Lecture 6: Overlapping Generations
Lecture 7: Stochastic Growth
Lecture 8: Neoclassical Endogenous Growth
Lectures 9 and 10: Endogenous Technological Change
Lecture 11: Technology Diffusion, Interdependences and World Growth
Lecture 12: Directed Technological Change

14.661 Labor Economics I
Fall 2011

Syllabus

Problem Set 1
Problem Set 2
Problem Set 3
Problem Set 4

Lectures in Labor Economics

Lectures 1 and 2 - Investment in Education and Skills
Lecture 3 - Education, Selection, and Signaling
Lectures 4 and 5 - Externalities and Peer Effects
Lectures 6 and 7 - Moral Hazard and Applicaitons
Lecture 8 - Efficiency Wages
Lectures 9 and 10 - Investments in General and Specific Skills
Lecture 11 - Partial Equilibrium Sequential Search
Lecture 12 - Equilibrium Search and Matching

14.452 Economic Growth
Fall 2011

Syllabus

Problem Set 1
Problem Set 2

Lecture 1 - Stylized Facts of Economic Growth and Development
Lectures 2 and 3 - The Solow Growth Model
Lecture 4 - The Solow Growth Model and the Data
Lecture 5 - Foundations of Neoclassical Growth
Lectures 6 and 7 - Neoclassical Growth
Lecture 8 - Overlapping Generations
Lecture 9 - Neoclassical Endogenous Growth
Lectures 10 and 11 - Endogenous Technical Change
Lecture 12 - Tchnology Diffusion, Interdependences and World Growth
Lecture 13 - Directed Technological Change

14.461 Advanced Macroeconomics: Technological Change
Fall 2011

Syllabus

Problem Set 1
Problem Set 2

Lectures 1 and 2 - Review of Models of Endogenous Technological Change
Lecture 3 - Knowledge Spillovers and Diffusion
Lecture 4 - Competition and Innovation
Lectures 5 - 7 - Directed Technological Change
Lecture 8 - Technology and the Labor Market
Lecture 9 - Prodcutivity Differences Across Countries
Lecture 10 - Misallocation and Productivity
Lecture 11 and 12 - Innovation and Firm Dynamics

6.207/14.15 Networks
Fall 2009

Instructors:K Daron Acemoglu, Asu Ozdaglar
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Lecture Notes:
Lecture 1 - Introduction
Lecture 2 - Graph Theory and Social Networks
Lecture 3 - Erdos-Renyi Graphs and Branching Processes
Lecture 4 - Erdos-Renyi Graphs and Phase Transitions
Lecture 5 - Generalized Random Graphs and Small-World Model
Lecture 6 - Growing Random Networks and Power Laws
Lecture 7 - Search on Networks: Navigation and Web Search
Lecture 8 - Diffusion through Networks
Lecture 9 - Introduction to Game Theory-1
Lecture 10 - Introduction to Game Theory-2
Lecture 11 - Introduction to Game Theory-3
Lecture 12 - Applications of Game Theory to Networks
Lectures 13 and 14 - Evolution and Learning in Games
Lecture 15 - Repeated Games and Cooperation
Lecture 16 - Cooperation and Trust in Networks
Lectures 17 and 18 - Network Effects
Lectures 19-21 - Bayesian Nash Equilibria, Auctions and Introduction to Social Learning
Lectures 22 and 23 - Social Learning in Networks
Lecture 24 - Decisions in Groups

Problem Sets:
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14.463 Advanced Economic Growth
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Lecture 1 - Introduction
Lecture 2 - Review of Endogenous Growth: Explaining Variety Models
Lecture 3 - Review of Endogenous Growth: Schumpterian Models
Lecture 4 - Directed Technological Change
Lecture 7 - Innovation by Incumbents and Cumulative Research
Lecture 8 - Technology Diffusion, Trade and Interdependencies: Diffusion of Technology
Lecture 10 - Appropriate Technologies and Barriers to Technology Adoption
Lectures 15 and 17 - Trade Growth and Innovation
Lecture 19 - Structural Change
Lecture 21 - Stochastic Dynamic Programming and Applications
Lecture 22 - Stochastic Growth
Lecture 23 - Structural Transformations and Market Failures in Development (Part 1)
Lecture 27 - Structural Transformations and Market Failures in Development (Part 2)

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