Teaching

In a nutshell

Teaching is truly a passion. I started teaching tutorials during the last year of my master (international monetary relations in last year of undergrad by Agnès Bénassy-Quéré). Ever since, I never stopped. As I taught different classes, I diversified my practices, created my own material and thought more thoroughly of the pedagogical tools at our disposition. Working on the creation of the tutorial and evaluation material to back-up Jean Imbs' teaching at PSE, in the master Analysis and Policy in Economics (APE), proved a great experience to hone my skills.

Teaching is enthralling because any pedagogy will ever be as efficient as its ability to adapt to changing audiences. And because a one-size-fits-all rarely applies, teaching can only be imperfect and bettered.
This perpetual challenge of adaptation and innovation is perhaps the first motivation when I teach.
How should we best communicate existing knowledge to reach as many as possible and offer the opportunity to others to identify and ask the questions that intrigue them most? How can we create an environment that develops the frameworks and tools behind, supports students' potential new ideas and questions and sustain their appropriation of knowledge?

Starting in 2018, I took part in a pedagogical experimentation alongside an economics professor & researcher, a researcher in sociology of education and a pedagogical engineer to study how learning-by-teaching innovations can help students and teacher perform better in their tasks. I guided students (last year undergrad) towards making videos to present and narrate concepts from the class and tutorials. Result1: students performed better and enjoyed the class more. Result2: I learned tons of hindsight and now have many new innovations in my pockets. In 2019-2020, I advised Pierre Jacquet in the process of adapting the format of his course on Political economy destined to engineer-students.

I have taught classes predominantly in international macroeconomics and finance, and macroeconomics. My students were mostly 1st year in their graduate/master studies or last year in their undergraduate/licence education.

Do not hesitate to contact me for questions and discussions at:
bhv.teaching@gmail.com

Ongoing courses

In discussion

Past courses

Paris School of Economics - Ecole d'Economie de Paris

International Macroeconomics (tutorials) -- M1 APE -- Fall 2021
(teacher = Francesco Pappada 2019-21 ; Jean Imbs 2016-19)

content: Balance of payments, global imbalances, valuation effects, external adjustments, intertemporal approach to the current account, exchange rates/regimes, interest rate parities and puzzles (previously: currency crises, trade/financial globalization, international risk sharing)

Macroeconomics 202 (tutorials) -- M1 APE -- Spring 2022
(teacher = Gilles Saint-Paul)

content: Labor market, firctions and unemployment (Shapiro-Stiglitz, Diamond-Mortenssen-Pissarides), Bellman Equation & Value functions, Credit market rigidities: credit rationing, financial accelerator (Bernanke-Gertler), liquidity and financial contagion.

Macroeconomics 101 -- M1 APE (PSE) -- Fall 2019:20
(teacher: Jean-Olivier Hairault)

content: from Keynesian to new-Keynesian macroeconomics , Neo-classical synthesis and RBC, nominal rigidities, rational expectations, monetary policy, history of economic thought contextualization.

Macroeconomics 102 -- M1 APE (PSE) -- Spring 2019:20
(teacher: Tobias Broer)

content: Economic growth and capital accumulation (Solow & Ramsey models), Resource/Environmental economics, Real Business Cycles, shocks, preferences and optimization. AS-AD and nancial markets; expectations, monetarism, new classical;money and liquidity; central bank, credibility and policy rules; consumption and invest-ment (Tobin's q).

Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonna

International Monetary Relations 202 -- L3 economics (Université Paris 1) -- Spring 2013:16+18:20
(teacher: Agnès Bénassy-Quéré)

content: Balance of payments, trade and financial globalization ; global imbalances , external positions and valuation effect ; exchange rates, forex markets and regimes ; monetary approaches ; real exchange rate ; parities ; Marschall-Lerner ; Balassa Samuelson ; Mundell Flemming.

Open Macroeconomics -- M1 economics (Université Paris 1) -- Fall 2014:15
(teacher: Anne-Marie Rieu-Foucault)

content: AS-AD and financial markets ; expectations, monetarism, new classical economics ; money and liquidity ; central bank, credibility and policy rules ; consumption and investment (Tobin's q).

Université Paris - Nanterre

International Macroeconomics -- M1 economics (Université Paris Nanterre) -- Fall 2014:15
(teacher: Dramane Coulibaly)

content: balance of payments, macroeconomic policies and exchange rate regimes, Mundell-trilemna

Université Paris 2 - Panthéon Assas

Introduction to Macroeconomics -- 1y. Licence/Bachelor economics (Université Paris 2) -- Fall 2014:15
(teacher: Claude Pondaven)

content: history of economic thought, national accounting and macroeconomic aggregates, macroeconomic policies and expectations.

References and evaluations

Reference letter available upon request: by Bernard Caillaud, director of the APE master.

"It is with a very great pleasure that I wish to bespeak here the remarkable teaching qualities of Brendan. [...] Brendan has displayed a global vision and perspective revealing a very great maturity for a PhD student. He masters the entirety of his field, he develops a critical view and provides thoughtful, constructive and well-funded propositions, that were very useful to us. [...] It is useful to mention that Brendan came by himself to track record of the sequence and evoke potential weaknesses and improvements, revealing this way a faultless commitment. Brendan is precise and respectful, he displayed availablity and seriousness. In a word, Brendan was our best TA this year at PSE."

Students' evaluations available upon request: (M1 APE tutorials).
nutshell: Positive and constructive feedbacks. Need to better/rethink my evaluation methods!

selection:"Brendan is an excellent TA, he will not only prepare the tutorials and explain everything very good but also was available to answer our questions about the future, phd, etc""A great sense of explanation, with a great balance between theoretical ideas and practical tools for exercises. Brendan almost made me love macro !""Brendan is a very nice tutor and he is passionate about the economics studies and teaching. I have learned a lot from him and I wish I can be a person who dedicates himself to economics study like him. This tutorial is well organized and hardcore.""The best TA this semester, great communication and explanations, allowing to understand a very hard class even for someone who has not done a lot of macro; grading is a bit too tough and the class could follow a tad more closely the lecture material, but overall very useful class with spillovers in other classes as well. Also, thank you for explaining who made these theories and why.""Brendan is a really good teacher, he is passionate which is really inspiring. He organised the tutorials very. It would be helpful if corrections of the tutorial can be scanned at better resolution.""Brendan is an excellent professor. He is very devoted, organized and it is clear that he likes the subject, and enjoys teaching it. He played a very important role in my understanding of the course.""Brendan is the best TA we had so far. the classes are well prepared and it seems obvious that Brendan loves to teach.""A very pleasant TA, making macro look easy.""About tutorials, nothing to say except a great thank you for Brendan's patience and ability to explain models.""The course was really challenging. However, Brendan have showed himself as a tremendous professional. His tutorials was perfectly clear, he was very responsive and communicative. Despite the fact that his exams was very tough and challenging, this was a result of a fair course structure. And besides the great assistance in studying the material, the communication with Brendan itself was a very useful and memorable experience."

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