Professor Martin Uribe
E-mail: martin.uribe@columbia.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays 3-4pm, IAB
1109A
TA Ozge Akinci
E-mail: oa2140@columbia.edu
Office Hours: TBA.
TA Alexander McQuoid
E-mail: afm2106@columbia.edu
Office Hours: TBA.
Meetings: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:10 to 10:25am in 209 Havemeyer.
Midterm Exam: March 10, in class.
Final Exam: Thursday, 05/12/2011 9:00am - 12:00pm (projected)
Course Description: Econ W4505 is a field course in International Macroeconomics. It develops a theoretical framework for the analysis of the determinants of international capital movements, trade imbalances, and nominal and real exchange rates. The theoretical framework is then used as the basis for the discussion of policy issues such as the emergence of the U.S. as a foreign debtor in the 1980s, the developing country debt crisis, exchange-rate-based inflation stabilization, debt default, balance-of-payment crises, and the effect of the 2007-8 developed-country crisis on the world economy.
Homeworks
Problem Set 1 (due Feb 3)
Download accompanying Economist article 1 and article 2