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Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Markets Program 

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"We have to be ready when the good data comes out to study what exactly is causing the corporate scene around us now. The course is going to prepare us to do that."

Prof. Timothy J. Kehoe

University of Minnesota
Barcelona GSE Guest Professor

 

Courses 2011-12


The program is structured in three terms. The first term endows students with the necessary general background through four compulsory courses. During the second and third terms, the course work focuses much more specifically on tools that are relevant for the study of macro policy and financial markets. Students will be required to undertake an applied project that will be an integral part of the curriculum. A supervisor will be assigned to every student. During the third term, this master will also offer seminars that will be led by international academics and practioners.

 

The end of the third term will be marked by a closing conference meant to be an interaction forum between the academic and the professional world. The presentation and discussion of students’ applied work will be combined with practioners talks and with the presentation of important academic research.

 

In September, students are required to take the Mathematics and Statistics review courses. They will help students to brush up on quantitative skills relevant to economics.

 

Review Course in Mathematics

Syllabus

Review Course in Statistics

Syllabus

 

Fall Term

Course Title
ECTSProfessor(s)
Macroeconomics

6

Francesc Obiols

Sekyu Choi

Microeconomics

6

Esther Hauk

Johannes Gierlinguer

Econometrics

6

Maite Cabeza

Michael Creel

Computation I

1.5

Maite Cabeza

Winter Term

Course Title
ECTSProfessor(s)
Financial Economics

3

Jordi Caballé
Empirical Macroeconomics

3

Nezih Guner
Time Series and Forecasting
6

Luca Gambetti

Laura Mayoral

Empirical Finance I 1.5Chris Telmer
Computational Methods 3

 Michael Reiter 

Computation II 1.5

Luca Gambetti

Spring Term

Course Title
ECTSProfessor(s)
Empirical Finance II1.5Chris Telmer
Macroeconomic Modeling and Estimation6

Jordi Galí

Marek Jarocinski

Omar Licandro

Ricardo Nunes

Gabriel Pérez-Quirós

Julien Prat

Juan Rubio-Ramirez

Topics in Finance
3Ander Pérez Orive
Fiscal Policy
3Albert Marcet
Monetary Policy
3 Stefano Gnocchi
Master Project
6 
Total ECTS credits
60
 

Applied Projects

Each student completes an applied project during the second and third terms of the master program.

 

Past topics included:

  • "The Forward Premium Puzzle and Learning Expectations, an Empirical Test"
  • "Foreign Trade and Output Volatility: The Case of Brazil"
  • "Credit Growth in Emerging Europe and Monetary Policy"
  • "Does Inflation Targeting Matter? OECD and Latin America Experiences"
  • "Convergence in the European Union: the Cases of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland"
  • "Forecasting U.S.A. House Prices"
  • "Fiscal Policy in a Small Open Economy: The case of Chile 1990-2008"
  • "Exchange Rate and Inflation in Brazil: a VAR Estimation" 
  • "Foreign Currency Lending and Contagion in Sovereign Debt Markets – A Case Study of Central Eastern Europe"
  • "The Nature and Mechanism of China’s Economic Growth"

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