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Structure: 12 weeks of lectures and 2 weeks of student presentations Course Materials: There is no required textbook that I will closely follow. Instead, I will prepare slides and lecture notes, which will be available through the course home page. However, there are some books which are useful for this course. Below is the list. Among those in the list, the first three books are particularly useful for the course. I will refer to the three books occasionally. Actually, you are supposed to have Ljungqvist and Sargent (2004) already. Judd (1998) is a must have for people doing computational macro. Vı́ctor’s chapter in Marimon and Scott (1999) serves as a concise summary of a part of the course. 1. Ljungqvist and Sargent (2004): The textbook in macroeconomics which matches best with this course. 2. Judd (1998): Toolbox of computational methods which are useful for economists. 3. Marimon and Scott (1999): Collection of papers covering various branches of computational methods. 4. Stokey, Lucas, and Prescott (1989): Toolbox of dynamic programming for economists