The program unfolds in six core courses, two intense modules, and culminates in a mentored research project, including the option of an internship at Ceresio Investors.
ECN 515 The Governance of Money
Payments, debt, and the monopoly issuance of national currencies. A rigorous overview of the monetary system, covering the mechanics of payments, the monopoly power of central banks, the infrastructure that makes banking possible, the structure of market yields, and the significance of conventional and unconventional monetary policies.
ECN 520 Games and Contracts
The foundations of the economics of information. A simple yet rigorous investigation of the fundamental issues in modern Microeconomics, exploring the main concepts of Game Theory, as well as the basic elements of the Economics of Information, and of Contract Theory.
ECN 530 Development Economics
Issues of growth and development, labor and employment, and measurements of poverty and inequality. An in-depth study of theories and contemporary issues in the field of development economics. This course will investigate topics in development from both a micro and a macro perspective and will engage with debates around issues of growth and development, labor and employment, education and health and measurements of different development indicators.
ECN 540 Special Topics
A two-week intensive module taught by a Visiting Professor.
ECN 550 Financial Analysis
The portfolio approach to risk management: Theories, models, and applications. A rigorous analysis of the principles that guide strategic investment decisions, with a focus on theories of capital structure and pricing of derivatives. Weekly tutorials on net present value, valuation and pricing of bonds and stocks, definition and measurement of risk, portfolio theory, the capital asset pricing model and the arbitrage pricing theory.
ECN 560 Political Economy of Capitalism and Inequality
Economic and gender inequality, ecology, trade and the political economy of uneven development. An in-depth survey and examination of theories in political economy. Specifically, investigating the structure of modern economy in the context of an increasingly sophisticated globalized world. Some of the topics that will be considered in this course are economic inequality, gender inequality, the relationship of the economic sphere to the ecology, changing role of international trade and political economy of poverty and uneven development.
ECN 570 Economic Policies in the Post-Crisis World
The changing shape of economic policies and the political economy of European monetary integration. A research seminar on monetary macroeconomics and the ongoing theoretical and policy debates from DSGE modeling to new views on fiscal policy, from the sectoral balance approach to new theories of money.
ECN 580 Special Topics
A two-week intensive module taught by a Visiting Professor.
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