• The course provides an introduction to financial markets, the banking system, monetary theory and policy, and financial crises. Our approach combines empirics and modeling to understand the importance of monetary policy over the aggregate economy, the banking sector, and financial markets.
  • Economics, at its very heart, is the study of people. It seeks to explain what drives human behavior, decisions, and reactions when faced with difficulties or successes. Economics is a discipline that combines politics, sociology, psychology, and history.