Teaching

Macroeconomics 1 (PhD)

Core subject covering dynamic optimization as employed in solving the consumer's and investor's problems, economic growth models, asset pricing, matching models, decision under uncertainty, and overlapping generations models.

Advanced Macroeconomics (Honours/Graduate)

The subject develops advanced analytical tools for understanding and modeling the aggregate economy. Developed are models capturing the behavior of consumers, firms, and the government and the markets in which they interact.

Intermediate Macroeconomics

The subject develops several macroeconomic models including: the IS/LM model; the Mundell-Fleming model; the Aggregate Demand/Aggregate Supply (AD/AS) model; the Phillips Curve; and the Solow Growth model. Developed models are used to understand macroeconomic events and phenomenon.

Principles Macroeconomics

The subject introduces macroeconomics concepts and basic tools of analysis, including the Keynesian model of aggregate demand and Aggregate Demand/Aggregate Supply model.

Economics for Management

A principles of macroeconomics and microeconomics as they relate to business management.

Investment Analysis/Financial Economics

The subject develops the CAPM and APT asset pricing models and investigates issues related to information and market efficiency.

Money and Banking

The subject considers the economic issues related to the banking sector including government oversight and regulation of and the implementation of monetary policy by the central bank. Economic models of adverse selection and moral hazard are covered.