MONETARY AND FINANCIAL THEORY

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 330

Monetary economics; the role of money in the determination of output, prices and interest rates; commercial and central banking, monetary policy, the international monetary 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 721

The contemporary theory of financial markets, portfolio choice, and asset pricing.

ECON 965

Current research on macroeconomic models, monetary theory and policy, the theory of portfolio selection, and the allocative and distributive performance of capital markets.