ECON 169: Advanced Topics in Macroeconomics and International Finance

Course Description

This is an advanced course in macroeconomics and international finance. We both build on and use the analytical foundations from earlier courses to understand key macroeconomic issues, such as the sources of growth and business cycles, the causes of inflation, and the effects of monetary and fiscal policy on the economy as well as global capital flows and the behavior of exchange rates. Each segment will start off with the key theoretical foundation and then we will discuss applying this theory to real-world events. This course will cover different topics than those covered in ECON 152: Advanced Macroeconomics and ECON 165: International Finance and would be a great follow up to those courses, but those courses are by no means a prerequisite for this one.