Slides

Lecture slides are posted here each week. Each module covers a different topic in macroeconomic modeling.

• M01: Foundations of Scientific Computing

• M02: Snow day (no class)

• M03: Intertemporal Choice

• M04: Consumption Theory

• M05: Advanced Consumption Models

• M06: Risk and Consumption

• M07: Asset Pricing

• M08: Midterm Exam (no slides)

• M09: Field Trip: GW OSCON (no slides)

• M10: Investment Theory

Building Slides Locally¶

Slides are built with Quarto. To build or preview slides on your own computer:

1. Install Quarto¶

Download and install Quarto from quarto.dev/docs/get-started.

Alternatively, use a package manager:

# macOS (Homebrew)
brew install quarto

# Windows (Chocolatey)
choco install quarto

# Linux (Debian/Ubuntu) - download .deb from quarto.dev
sudo dpkg -i quarto-*.deb

Verify the installation:

quarto --version

2. Preview Slides¶

From the project root directory:

uv run quarto preview slides/m03/intertemporal-choice-slides.qmd

This opens a live preview in your browser that updates as you edit.

3. Build All Slides¶

To build all slides to HTML:

uv run quarto render slides/

The output files are placed alongside the source .qmd files.