https://github.com/pmichaillat/business-cycles

Source files of the minicourse "Business Cycles and How to Tame Them"
https://github.com/pmichaillat/business-cycles

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Source files of the minicourse "Business Cycles and How to Tame Them"

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/pmichaillat/business-cycles
• Owner: pmichaillat
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Created: 2023-04-16T17:00:40.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-02-10T18:34:32.000Z (9 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-02-10T19:36:36.932Z (9 months ago)
• Topics: business-cycles, course-material, economic-slack, fiscal-policy, macroeconomics, matching-model, monetary-policy, unemployment
• Language: TeX
• Homepage: https://pascalmichaillat.org/c5/
• Size: 13.9 MB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.md

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# Business Cycles and How to Tame Them: Source Files

This repository contains the source files of the minicourse "Business Cycles and How to Tame Them" developed by [Pascal Michaillat](https://pascalmichaillat.org/) and taught at the [Reserve Bank of India](https://www.cafral.org.in/) and [Bank of Italy](https://www.bancaditalia.it).

## Course webpage

The course material is hosted at https://pascalmichaillat.org/c5/.

## Lecture slides

The source files to the lecture slides are placed in the `lectureslides` folder. The lecture slides are written in LaTeX, and then compiled to PDF with pdfTeX. The lecture slides are organized in four slide decks for four two-hour lectures: 

+ `slides1.tex`, `slides1.pdf` – Accounting for Business Cycles

+ `slides2.tex`, `slides2.pdf` – Slackish Business-Cycle Model: Static Version

+ `slides3.tex`, `slides3.pdf` – Slackish Business-Cycle Model: Dynamic Version

+ `slides4.tex`, `slides4.pdf` – Taming Business Cycles with Monetary and Fiscal Policy

The `lectureslides` folder also contains the LaTeX style files used to format the lecture slides:

+ `presentation.sty` – [Commands to format academic presentations](https://github.com/pmichaillat/latex-presentation) 

+ `lecture.sty` – Slight modification of `presentation.sty` for teaching material

+ `math.sty` – [Commands to write math](https://github.com/pmichaillat/latex-math)

## Figures

The source files to the figures inserted in the lecture slides are placed in the `figures` folder. The figures are produced with Keynote, and then exported to PDF. The figures are organized as follows:

+ `figure1.key`, `figure1.pdf` – Regular figures inserted in `slides1.tex` (4:3 format)

+ `widefigure1.key`, `widefigure1.pdf` – Wide figures inserted in `slides1.tex` (16:9 format)

+ `figure2.key`, `figure2.pdf` – Regular figures inserted in `slides2.tex` (4:3 format)

+ `widefigure2.key`, `widefigure2.pdf` – Wide figures inserted in `slides2.tex` (16:9 format)

+ `figure3.key`, `figure3.pdf` – Regular figures in `slides3.tex` (4:3 format)

+ `widefigure3.key`, `widefigure3.pdf` – Wide figures inserted in `slides3.tex` (16:9 format)

+ `figure4.key`, `figure4.pdf` – Figures inserted in `slides4.tex` (4:3 format)

## License

The content of this repository was created by Pascal Michaillat and is licensed under the [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).