Skander J. Van den Heuvel
Teaching
Finance 101: Monetary Economics & the Global Economy
This is an intermediate-level
course in macroeconomics and the global economy, including topics in monetary
and international economics. The goal is to provide a unified framework for
understanding macroeconomic events and policy, which govern the global economic
environment of business. The course analyzes the determinants and behavior of
employment, production, demand and profits; inflation, interest rates, asset prices,
and wages; exchange rates and international flows of goods and assets;
including the interaction of the real economy with monetary policy and the
financial system. The analysis is applied to current events, both in the
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Finance 924: Intertemporal Macroeconomics and Finance
This is a doctoral level course on macroeconomics, with special emphasis on intertemporal choice under uncertainty and topics related to finance. Topics include: optimal consumption and saving, the stochastic growth model, q-theory of investment, (incomplete) risk sharing and asset pricing. The course will cover and apply techniques, including dynamic programming, to solve dynamic optimization problems under uncertainty. Numerical solution methods are also discussed.
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