PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Economics Department
Bendheim Center for Finance
ECO 575 (Part II)
Franklin Allen
Spring Semester 2003
Classes will be held on Mondays 1:30-4:20pm in 103 Bendheim Center for Finance. Office Hours are 2-4pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays (but not March 27 or April 3) and by appointment.
Contact details for Franklin Allen: I can be reached at any time through e-mail: hallen@princeton.edu Most weeks I will be in my office 102 Bendheim Center for Finance on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. My telephone number in the office is 609 258 0372.
Grading will be done on the basis of a paper.
Outline of Classes
March 24 Section 1 Introduction
Section 2 Historical and Recent Crises
March 31 Class cancelled - rescheduled to Friday, April 18 2:30-5:20pm
April 7 Section 3 Banking Crises (continued)
April 14 Section 4 Currency Crises
April 18 Section 5 Bubbles and Crises
April 21 Section 6 Contagion and Financial Fragility
April 28 Section 7 Government Policies and Crises
Section 8 Conclusions
The lectures will be based on a book that Douglas Gale and I are writing Understanding Financial Crises (UFC) to be published by Oxford University Press.
Section 1: Introduction
Slides: SEC1.pdf
UFC Text: UFC-Chap01.pdf
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