Courses in which we are involved
MASTER IN MANAGEMENT, TECHNOLOGY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
2018- 2019 Master – Semester 1 – Fall 2018
This course provides students with the framework and decision tools needed for understanding economic events, taking financial decisions and evaluating investment opportunities in a global economy. The course builds up an integrated model of exchange rate and output determination, which is used to analyze current economic events and to understand monetary and fiscal policies. Relevant applications and case studies will be presented such as the recent financial crisis, the slide in the Turkish lira, the run on the Argentinian peso and the request for an IMF loan, and the rise (and fall) of cryptocurrencies valuation.
To see the outline and the material for this course, go to the course Moodle webpage. You can connect to Moodle using your GASPAR username and password. To access the documents you need an enrollment key, which will be given to you during the first session of this course.
MASTER IN FINANCIAL ENGINEERING
2018- 2019 Master – Semester 1 – Fall 2018
Macroeconomics is the study of the aggregate behavior of market participants, i.e. consumers, firms, workers, governments, central banks, foreign investors. Decision making by investment bankers, product/sales managers, policy makers, or consumers must rely on the understanding of the main forces driving GDP, inflation, interest rates. The goal of this course is to provide a coherent and formal framework that can be used to understand macroeconomic events and policy decisions.
To see the outline and the material for this course, go to the course Moodle webpage. You can connect to Moodle using your GASPAR username and password. To access the documents you need an enrollment key, which will be given to you during the first session of this course.
DOCTORAL PROGRAM IN MANAGEMENT OF TECHNOLOGY (EDMT)
Fall 2018-2019
Recursive Methods in Macroeconomics
This PhD course teaches recursive methods used in modern macroeconomics and presents some of their applications. Recursive representations of macroeconomic models are useful because they are parsimonious and allow the computer to be used to solve for the equilibrium and the dynamics of the model.
The course will present six model economies and you will learn how to write these models in recursive form, characterize the equilibrium and compute it. The course is structured in six lectures (morning), each followed by an exercise sessions (afternoon) where you will learn numerical methods to solve for the equilibrium of the model presented in the lecture.
Exercise sessions will take place in a classroom equipped with computers; you will learn to write programs in Matlab, Fortran, etc.
The course has no prerequisites and most concepts will be introduced during the course. Nevertheless, prior knowledge of economics will be useful.
To see the outline and the material for this course, go to the course Moodle webpage. You can connect to Moodle using your GASPAR username and password. To access the documents you need an enrollment key, which will be given to you during the first session of this course.