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 in 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 consumption smoothing

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. Consumption smoothing: developed and developing countries

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

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

9. Saving and investment: Natural resource discoveries

10. Case study: The Australian debate on current account deficits 

11. The current account dynamics and external debt sustainability

12. Case study: Sri Lanka's debt crisis

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

14. Public debt and future generations

15. The life cycle, demographic change and external balances

16. Saving and investment: Population ageing and pension reforms

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

18. Money and nominal exchange rates 

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

20. The international monetary system

21. Fiscal and monetary policies in open economies

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

23. Climate policies and external balances