International Finance and Macroeconomics
ECON 1546
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Description
This is an intermediate-level international finance and macroeconomics course. The course lays out macroeconomic models used for the analysis of international topics and discusses recent global macro developments through the prism of these models. The objective of the course is to enable students to analyze international macroeconomic issues, using the modern tools of economics, in order to follow and participate in the current economic and policy debate. The topics include tariffs, current account deficits, financial globalization, sovereign debt and default, exchange rate determination, currency crisis, currency unions, macroeconomic and development policies. The course is an introduction to academic topics studied further at the graduate level.
Recommended Prep
The pre-requisite for the class is intermediate macroeconomics.
School
Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits
4
Cross Reg
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
Department
Economics
Course Component
Lecture
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Subject
Economics
Grading Basis
FAS Letter Graded
General Education
N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data
N/A
Divisional Distribution
Social Sciences
Course Level
Primarily for Undergraduate Students
