I aim to help students learn in an open and interactive environment how to think about complex economic issues and develop simplified but insightful frameworks, and more generally, to apply this way of thinking into decision making in their personal, professional, and especially public policy activities. 

I teach International Macroeconomics for graduate students, covering the following topics:

1. The global macroeconomy

2. Macroeconomic accounting for an open economy

3. The current account in a two-period endowment economy I: intertemporal trade and welfare gains

4. The current account in a two-period endowment economy II: output shocks and fiscal shocks

5. The current account in a two-period endowment economy III: uncertainty and precautionary saving

6. The current account in a two-period production economy I: consumption smoothing and investment financing

7. The current account in a two-period production economy II: productivity shocks and fiscal shocks

8. The current account dynamics and external debt sustainability

9. Case study: Sri Lanka's debt crisis

10. The life cycle, tax policy  and the current account

11. The life cycle, demographic change and external balances

12. Tradable vs non-tradable goods and real exchange rates

13. Money and nominal exchange rates 

14. Case study: Papua New Guinea's exchange rate issues

15. The international monetary system

16. Fiscal and monetary policies in open economies

17. Natural resources and real exchange rates: The Dutch disease

18. Climate policies and external balances