Charles E. Swanson, Ph.D.
Temple University
Economics Department

Econ 606 On Line

• An introductory RBC program in Mathematica. This program will get you the decision function coefficients for a model with variable labor, investment and consumption. The program to generate the times series is given laterThe Mathematica program (18kb)
• The Nov. 18 version of the RBC program can be downloaded by hittingRBC progam files (9kb). To run these, (1) put the file in a directory so the address reads something like: c:\Econ607\Rbc1c, (2) In Mathematica, type SetDirectory["c:\Econ607"], (3) Retrieve the contents of the file with the command: Get["Rbc1c"]; Don't forget the quotes and semi-colon. You can replace "Get" with the double less-than sign. To make sure you have everything, type spec. (4) Then type, in order, getSS, setFOC, getbb, makeseries[25]. Change the 25 to a higher number once you know things work. A 100 year data set would be created with makeseries[400], since there are 4 quarters in a year. (5) Go back and change the specification by altering the spec vector. Good Luck.
• A more complete RBC program can be downloaded with Dec. 5 RBC programs (20 kb). Download this and input it with the get command as before.
• Chapter 1 overview (of Ob. & Rog.)
• Chapter 2 (of Ob. & Rog.)
• Lec 1 Brief pre-cap
• Lec 2 Investment and Consumption
• Lec 3Phase Diagrams, Part 1

• Econ 607, Fall 1998. The Big One

  The Final
• astro...Lec 2 (ignore this) 2
• ./Lec 2 (ignore this too)