Course calendar.

SES #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
1	Part 1 Stylized facts of economic growth and development Part 2 Introduction to the Solow growth model
2	Introduction to the Solow growth model (cont.)	Problem set 1 out
3	Part 1 The Solow model and the data; growth accounting, levels accounting, and the facts Part 2 Fundamental causes of income differences
4	Foundations of Neoclassical growth; representative customers, optimal and competitive allocations, welfare theorems	Problem set 1 due
5-6	Neoclassical growth	Problem set 2 out in Ses #5
7	Overlapping generations and dynamic efficiency	Problem set 2 due
8	Neoclassical endogenous growth: capital accumulation, externalities, and human capital	Problem set 3 out
9-10	Endogenous growth with expanding input varieties	Problem set 3 due and problem set 4 out in Ses #9
11	Interdependences: human capital, technology diffusion, trade, and the world income distribution in an open economy	Problem set 4 due
12	Directed technical change: endogenous skill-bias and endogenous labor-augmenting technological change
13	Optimal and competitive growth under uncertainty	Final exam taken 1 week after Ses #13