Teaching
Undergraduate Teaching
INTRODUCTION TO MACROECONOMICS
University of Pennsylvania, Econ 2, 2000-2002, 2006
University of Southampton, Econ 1001/1002, 2011-2014
Required course for Economics major; introduces basic concepts of macroeconomics, such as GDP, and the use of simple models for the analysis of unemployment, growth, business cycles and monetary issues.
INTERMEDIATE MACROECONOMICS
University of Pennsylvania, Econ 102, Fall 2004,Spring/Fall 2005, 2006, 2008
SFU: Econ 305, 2014-2018
Required course for Economics major; develops more advanced equilibrium models to analyse unemployment, growth, business cycles and monetary issues.
INTERNATIONAL MACROECONOMICS
University of Southampton , ECON 3008, Spring 2009
Required course for Economics major; based on Krugman and Obstfeld: "International Economics: Theory and Policy". Topics included balance of payments, exchange rate regimes and monetary policy.
ADVANCED MACROECONOMICS
University of Pennsylvania, Econ 4, Fall/Spring 1999, 2004
Simon Fraser University, Econ 403, Spring 2016
TOPICS IN MACROECONOMICS
University of Pennsylvania, Econ 172, Fall 2002, 2003
University of Pennsylvania, Econ 242, Fall 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008
Simon Fraser University, Econ 483, Fall 2017
Extensions and applications of macro theory. Past topics included income and wealth inequality, as well as fertility and household formation.
Graduate Teaching
PHD MACRO II: Advanced Macroeconomic Theory
Spring 2014-2019: Econ 809, SFU.
Required course for entering PhD students; applies and extends basic theory to specific research areas, such as labor-market search/matching, business cycles and monetary models.
PHD MACRO I
Fall 2015: Econ 809, SFU.
Required course for entering PhD students; covers basic theory and methods of neo-classical macroeconomics.
PHD MACRO TOPICS
University of Pennsylvania, Econ 712, Fall 2000, 2003
This course dealt with topics related to income and wealth inequality, as well as fertility and household formation.
MSC MACRO I
University of Southampton , ECON 6023, Fall 2010
This course is a survey of the basic theory of neo-classical macroeconomics. The emphasis is on solving problems involving inter-temporal decisions and general equilibrium. The main topics are long-run growth, asset-pricing, and business cycles. We consider various flavors of models, including infinite-horizon and over-lapping generations.
MSC MACRO II
University of Southampton Spring 2008-2010, 2012 to 2014
This course extends in two ways the knowledge of macro acquired in Macro 1. The first is to expose students to more specialised theory, such as models of unemployment or banking crises. The second is to apply basic theory to quantitative problems, by studying recent research papers in these fields.