MINT108: Finance in Emerging Markets (Academic year 2017 - 2018)

EI061: International Finance A (Academic year 2017 - 2018)

Course Description:

This course will provide an in-depth analysis of international financial markets. The course will start with an overview of international capital flows. It will discuss the drivers of exchange rate determination and international asset pricing. It will examine the determinants of international sovereign borrowing, international portfolio choices, and financial crises and international financial contagion. The course will match theory to empirical results and discuss the implications of these theoretical and empirical results for economic policy.

EI060: Macroeconomics B (Academic year 2017 - 2018)

Course Description:

This course is the continuation of the macroeconomics sequence for MIS students. The objective of the course is to present to students empirical and theoretical analysis that will help them analyze current issues in open macroeconomics. The topics that will be covered include inter-temporal trade, international business cycles, puzzles in international economics, models of exchange rate determination, global capital flows, sovereign debts and defaults, financial globalization and financial crises, and recent thinking on international reserves and international liquidity. After taking this course, students will have an overview of the main questions in international macroeconomics; master theoretical frameworks frequently used to analyze these questions by solving exercises, and develop deeper economic intuition about the strengths and shortcomings of these frameworks.

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EI051: International Finance I (Academic year 2014 - 2015, with Ugo Panizza)

Course Description:

This course will provide an in-depth analysis of international financial markets. The course will start with an overview of international capital flows. It will discuss the drivers of exchange rate determination and international asset pricing. It will examine the determinants of international sovereign borrowing, international portfolio choices, and financial crises and international financial contagion. The course will match theory to empirical results and discuss the implications of these theoretical and empirical results for economic policy.

MINT018: Microeconomics and Macroeconomics of Finance
and Development (Academic year 2014 - 2015, with Lore Vandewalle )

Course Description:

Financial inclusion for the poor remains a major challenge. The micro-financial part of the course covers recent innovations that improve access to financial services for low income households and focuses on new mechanisms that help the poor to save, borrow and cope with risk. The macro-financial development topics that will be covered include financial development and economic growth, financial frictions and investment; banking, debt and equity markets; the political economy of finance; international capital flows and financial globalization. After taking this course, students will have an overview of the main questions in micro and macro-financial linkage; master theoretical/empirical frameworks frequently used to analyze these questions; and develop deeper economic intuition to conduct development policy.