Stanford University

Department of Economics

Econ 234, Monetary Theory and Advanced Macroeconomics II, Spring 2006

 

Professor Robert Hall

 

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Syllabus

 

Readings:

 

Hall: Job Loss, Fob Finding, and Unemployment in the U.S. Economy over the Past Fifty Years

 

Hall: Separating the Business Cycle from Other Economic Fluctuations

 

Hall: Employment Fluctuations with Equilibrium Wage Stickiness

 

Shimer: The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies

 

Hall: The Labor Market and Macro Volatility: A Nonstationary General-Equilibirum Analysis