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
The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works
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