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ECON 855

International Finance and Macroeconomics

Laura Castillo Martinez

Description from DukeHub

Course provides a broad overview of core field models and explores active current research areas. Topics generally include international transmission of business cycles, global imbalances and external adjustment, international asset pricing and financial intermediation, the international monetary system, global financial cycle, determination of nominal and real exchange rates, exchange rate pass-through and invoicing, monetary and fiscal policy in the open economy, alternative exchange rate arrangements, and sovereign debt.

Skills

  • financedescription: "asset pricing" and 2 more

AI-resilient: 2 of 5

  • No: Physical, lab or field work
  • Yes: Live work with people · "intermediation"
  • Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "policy"
  • No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
  • No: Small, in-person format

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