ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL FINANCE

ECON 664

Covers advanced topics in international trade and investment, including foreign direct investment, dynamic models of trade, and models of firm-level heterogeneity.

ECON 435

Banking, credit markets and financial institutions, monetary and debt management policies; relation of national monetary and credit institutions to the international system.

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 461

International macroeconomics, focusing on the international exchange of financial instruments - currencies, bonds, equities, derivatives, and more - and how decisions and policies made in one country spill over into other markets.

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.