Prof Matthias Doepke

Prof Rachel Ngai

Prof Ben Moll

This course is available on the MRes/PhD in Economics and MRes/PhD in Economics and Management. This course is not available as an outside option to students on other programmes. This course uses controlled access as part of the course selection process. For information on controlled access courses, including eligibility, application processes, deadlines, and departmental contact details, please refer to the Controlled Access Courses webpage.

For queries contact: econ.mres.phd@lse.ac.uk

Mutually exclusive courses:

This course cannot be taken with EC539 at any time on the same degree programme.

Surveys the most recent development in a range of macroeconomics topics, with an emphasis on technical detail and directions for further research opened up by the material. The goal is to put the students on the research path by bringing them to the research frontier.

Additional topics are explored in Macroeconomics for Research Students II in the Winter Term. The two half unit courses are designed to complement each other.

30 hours of lectures in the Autumn Term.

This course is delivered through lectures totalling a minimum of 30 hours across Autumn Term. Attendance is compulsory.

Students will discuss papers in lectures.

Readings will be mainly from journal articles; a list will be supplied at the start of term.

Continuous assessment (100%) in Winter Term Week 11.