ECON 403C - Seminar in International Finance

Unit(s): 4

The goal of this course is to explain movements in the trade balance, exchange rates, national output, and inflation. The first portion of the course develops building blocks regarding these movements. The second part of the course develops a theoretical framework which we will use to analyze policy issues such as the sustainability of the U.S. trade deficit, the Asian currency crisis, the Argentine crisis, the European Monetary Union and the Euro, the debt crisis, the international monetary system, and capital market integration.

Prerequisite(s): ECON 303, 304, 305 and 317.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Grading: GRD