Etienne Lalé - Teaching

ECON5500: Advanced Monetary Economics

Semester: Winter

Offered: 2024

The purpose of this course is to introduce you to the main tools of analysis of business cycle fluctuations and policies, with a special emphasis on the role of monetary factors and the channels of influence of monetary policy. The course relies on the New Keynesian framework, which is highly influential in today’s analyses of macroeconomic fluctuations in academic circles as well as at central banks and international institutions.

ECON2450: Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory II

Semester: Spring

Offered: 2024

The purpose of this course is to introduce you to a set of topics and policy issues pertaining to the macroeconomy, and to provide you with the theoretical tools and foundations to understand them. The course will examine the problems of inflation, unemployment, and government deficits; consumption and savings in closed and open economy settings, credit market imperfections; as well as monetary policy issues, focusing on the role of expectations.