Teaching

I have taught several courses in Macroeconomics and International Finance both at undergraduate and graduate levels. Here is a list of them:

• Invited Lecturer to the mini-course on Business Cycles in Emerging and Developed Economies at FEN - U. de Chile, June, 2021. NEW!!! (I have also taught this course in previous years at U. de Los Andes; EAFIT; and Universidad del Norte)

  • Link to Syllabus

  • Link to slides

    • I. Stylized Facts

    • II. First Generation of Models: The Role of TFP shocks (Additional slides for those not familiar with recursive solution methods)

    • III. The Role of Interest Rates and Spreads

      • Empirical Evidence and First Models

      • A "Horse Race"

    • IV. The Role of Financial Frictions and Corporate Debt

      • The Stylized Facts

      • The Financial Accelerator in Emerging Economies

      • Optimal Debt Choice by Corporates in Emerging Economies

    • V. Financial Frictions and Fiscal Procyclicality

      • Stylized facts and a model of optimal (Ramsey) procyclical policy in the presence of financial frictions

    • VI. Terms of Trade and Commodity Prices

      • Empirical Evidence and (New) Controversy

      • A Structural Model of Commodities and the Macroeconomy

      • A Non-Structural Model with Multiple Shocks

    • VII. Overborrowing and Macroprudential Policies

      • Empirical Evidence

  • Link to readings

  • Link to handout (private)

• Assistant Professor. Department of Economics. Universidad de Los Andes, August/2010 – December/2011. Undergraduate Level: Economic growth; Macroeconomics in Emerging Markets. Graduate Level: Advanced Macroeconomics I.

• Instructor. Department of Economics. Rutgers, June/2006 – July/2010. Undergraduate Level: Intermediate Macroeconomics; Introduction to Macroeconomics; International Balance of Payments. Graduate Level: Macroeconomic Theory II – Recitation.

• Instructor. Economics Department. Universidad de los Andes. January/2003 – June/2005. Undergraduate Level: Introduction to Macroeconomics; Intermediate Macroeconomics; Economic Policy in Colombia.