This course studies the global economic environment in which households, firms, policy makers, and regulators operate. This environment is complex and volatile, as the recent experience of four major crises, the financial, fiscal, covid, and war crises, has demonstrated. The risks emanate not only in the different origins and the lack of recent previous experience with some of the crises, but also in ambiguity as to policy and regulatory responses.
We will build a coherent framework to understand the behavior of aggregate output, interest rates, consumption and investment, inflation, and unemployment, and how these are influenced by monetary, fiscal, and financial policies. This new framework has been developed in view of lessons from the financial crisis and represents an improvement on the typical content of macro-finance courses at this level. The goal is to allow you to understand the reporting and debates on policy responses in the sophisticated financial press, as these unfold.
Upon completion of this course, you will have the ability to understand the basic implications of the following key concepts:
This course is offered in the part-time Master in Finance program and may be attended on a “no credit” basis by individuals not enrolled in the program.
Course participants are visitors who are not responsible for assignments and do not take an exam or earn academic credits. As the number of seats in the course is limited, we recommend to register online early.
Michael Haliassos, Chair of Macroeconomics and Finance at Goethe University, is Founding Director of the CEPR Network on Household Finance, and Research Fellow of CEPR and of NETSPAR. He has been advisor to the European Central Bank on the Household Finances and Consumption Survey since its inception in 2006; and consultant to ESMA on Investor Protection (2015-17). He was two-term Director of the Center for Financial Studies (2010-15) and Founding Director of SAFE (2013-15). Michael Haliassos received a B.A. from Cambridge and a Ph.D. from Yale under the supervision of Nobel Laureates James Tobin and William Nordhaus. He was among the early researchers in Household Finance, that he reviewed Journal of Economic Literature 2021. His papers have appeared in leading journals, including the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Monetary Economics, Management Science, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the International Economic Review, and the Economic Journal. He recently received the 2021 RFS Hillcrest Prize for Best Behavioral Finance Paper.
Prof. Haliassos was awarded numerous teaching prizes, including several for the PTMF course Economics, a 6CP version of this elective, and for this elective.
Course materials will be provided in electronic form.
English
Campus Westend of Goethe University Frankfurt.
A GBS certificate of participation is awarded upon completion of the course.
€ 950 (fee is exempt from VAT). The fee for GBS students or alumni amounts to € 400.
| Date | Session |
|---|---|
| Fri., May 17, 2024 | 13:00-15:00, 15:30-17:30 |
| Fri., May 31, 2024 | 13:00-15:00 |
| Sat., June 01, 2024 | 09:00-11:00 |
| Fri., June 14, 2024 | 18:00-20:00 |
| Sat., June 15, 2024 | 14:30-16:30 |
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