INTERNATIONAL MACROECONOMICS

PUBAFFR 854

An introduction to international macroeconomic and financial policies with an emphasis on the interaction between domestic policies, and international financial markets, regulations and institutions.

ECON 661

Examines the macroeconomics of open economies (countries that can trade goods and assets with other countries). Takes a systematic approach to building and examining macroeconomic models of the open economy, to try to understand the determination of output and employment, trade balance, capital flows, the foreign currency exchange rate, international prices, and the role of uncertainty and asset choice.

ECON 872

Algebraic and geometric modeling of open macroeconomics with unbalanced trade and payments, focussing analytically on the foreign exchange market and the determinants of the exchange rate.

ECON 730

Examines the economics of international financial markets, and how international considerations affect financial economic models. It provides an introduction to foreign exchange markets and risk; it investigates international parity conditions and foreign exchange rate determination; it studies international capital markets; it looks at the basics of international corporate finance; and, it discusses foreign currency derivatives.

ECON 810

Topics in macroeconomic research.