Mathematics for Macroeconomics: Source Files

This repository contains the source files of the course "Mathematics for Macroeconomics" developed by Pascal Michaillat and taught at the London School of Economics & Political Science.

Course webpage

The course material is hosted at https://pascalmichaillat.org/c3/.

Lecture notes

The source files to the lecture notes are placed in the lecturenotes folder. The lecture notes are written in LaTeX, and then compiled to PDF with pdfTeX. There are 3 sets of lecture notes:

• notes1.tex, notes1.pdf – Dynamic programming
• notes2.tex, notes2.pdf – Optimal control
• notes3.tex, notes3.pdf – Differential equations
• phasediagrams.key, phasediagrams.pdf – Phase diagrams included in notes3.tex

Problem sets

The source files to the problem sets are placed in the problemsets folder. The problem sets are written in LaTeX, and then compiled to PDF with pdfTeX. There are 4 problem sets:

• ps1.tex, ps1.pdf – Problem set on dynamic programming
• ps2.tex, ps2.pdf – Problem set on optimal control
• ps3.tex, ps3.pdf – Problem set on differential equations
• ps4.tex, ps4.pdf – Cumulative problem set covering all three topics

Solutions to the problems sets are available to instructors upon request.

Style files

The folders also contain the LaTeX style files used to format the lecture notes and problem sets:

• paper.sty – Commands to format academic papers
• notes.sty – Slight modification of paper.sty for teaching material
• math.sty – Commands to write math

License

The content of this repository was created by Pascal Michaillat and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.