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Part I. Business-Cycle Facts Around the World.
¿ How business cycles compare across countries?
Part II. Simple Small Open Economy (SOE) Models.
¿ An Open Endowment Economy
¿ An Open Economy with Capital
Part III. The Open Economy Real Business Cycle Model.
¿ The building blocks of the model
¿ Model and data predictions
Part IV. The role of productivity and financial shocks.
¿ How important are productivity shocks for business cycles
¿ Financial frictions or productivity shocks?
Part V. External shocks as a source of business cycle variations.
¿ Interest rate shocks
¿ Terms of Trade shocks
Part VI. Extensions of the SOE Model.
¿ Fiscal Policy in the SOE
¿ Green Transition
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Part VII. Building blocks of sovereign default literature.
¿ Big picture, motivating facts
The seminal paper: Eaton and Gersovitz (1981)
¿ Recent benchmarks: Arellano (2008), Aguiar and Gopinath (2006)
Part VIII. Sovereign bonds with long maturity.
¿ Exogenous maturity: Hatchondo and Martinez (2009), Chatterjee and Eyigungor (2012)
¿ Endogenous maturity: Aguiar, Amador, Hopenhayn, and Werning (2019), Sanchez, Sapriza,
and Yurdagul (2018)
Part IX. Debt restructurings.
¿ Empirical facts: Cruces and Trebesch (2013)
¿ Modeling endogenous restructuring: Dvorkin, Snchez, Sapriza, and Yurdagul (2021)
Part X. Interaction with other assets and agents.
¿ Risk averse international lenders: Lizarazo (2013)
¿ Domestic lending through a banking sector: Sosa-Padilla (2018)
¿ Sovereign and private default risk: Kaas, Mellert, and Scholl (2020)
¿ Sovereign default and reserves: Bianchi, Hatchondo, and Martinez (2018)
¿ Sovereign default and capital accumulation: Seoane and Yurdagul (2022)
Part XI. Sudden stops.
¿ Self-fulfilling crises: Cole and Kehoe (2000), Bocola and Dovis (2016)
¿ Models with occasionally binding constraints: Bianchi (2011), Seoane and Yurdagul (2019)
Part XII. Numerical analysis (covered simultaneously with the rest of the syllabus).
¿ Smart discrete search: Gordon and Qiu (2015)
¿ Solving Arellano (2008)
¿ Dynamic discrete search techniques applied to sovereign default models: Dvorkin, Snchez, Sapriza, and Yurdagul (2021).