Teaching
Development Economics (University of Essex, Graduate course: EC336): This module examines the challenges for developing countries since the acceleration of the pace of economic integration in the 1980s. We discuss the effects of trade orientation, trade reform and multilateral trade agreements on growth, poverty and development. We also debate main issues related to the effectiveness of foreign aid, examine the 1982 international debt crisis and look at the problem of heavily indebted low-income countries. In the second part of the module, we deal with controversial issues of worldwide concern such as international migration and the "brain drain" from poor to rich countries, global labour standards and child labour as well as the spread of HIV/aids, malaria and other infectious diseases.
Quantitative Economics (University of Essex, Undergraduate course: EC114): What are the main sources of economic data? And how is data used in economics? Study the methods of quantitative economics, looking at how economic data is described and analysed. Learn to read, understand and manipulate data from both a theoretical and empirical perspective.
Financial Innovation and Monetary Policy (University of Essex, Graduate course: EC248): This course focuses on developments in monetary policy, and its effects, in the context of continuing financial innovations including new forms of transaction media. The aim of the course is to introduce students to the evolution of central and commercial bank practices and the institutional environment within which the banking sector operates.
International Trade (University of Essex, Masters course: EC932): The course is concerned with the key theoretical and policy issues that arise in trying to understand the economics of international trade. It looks at a variety of trade models - both under perfectly competitive and imperfectly competitive market conditions - and their empirical implications for both patterns of trade and foreign direct investment. It also examines their effects on the level and distribution of welfare and economic growth.
Statistics (Université Libre de Bruxelles ULB, undergraduate, Graduate): Topics include descriptive statistics (univariate, bivariate), time series, cross-sectional data, probabilities, statistical inference, pointwise estimation, confidence intervals, theory of tests, analysis of variance and regression analysis. Here are links to the courses official pages STAT S-101, Stat S-202, Stat D-103
Mathematics (ULB, undergraduate, in French):
Partie Analyse: topologie sur IR, convergence de suites réelles, limites et continuité de fonctions d'une variable réelle, dérivée d'une fonctions d'une variable réelle, fonctions concaves et convexes;
Partie Algèbre linéaire: matrices réelles (somme et produit matriciels, trace, transposée, inversibilité des matrices,rang d'une matrice), systèmes linéaires (forme matricielle, systèmes de Cramer, systèmes quelconques), déterminants (propriétés, lien entre déterminant et inversibilité d'une matrice, etc), espaces vectoriels (sous-espace vectoriel, dépendance et indépendance linéaire, bases, changement de base, transformations linéaires, vecteurs et valeurs propres, formes bilinéaires symétriques, produit scalaire, formes quadratiques), nombres complexes, récurrences linéaires à coefficients constants, etc. Here is a link to the couse website MATH-S-101
Microeconomics (ULB, Undergraduate): Topics include consumer behaviour, producers behaviour, markets and equilibrium, imperfect competition and market structure, general equilibrium, externalities, public goods.
Graduate Microeconomics (ULB, Graduate): Game theory, contract theory, incentives and information. Topics include: Nash equilibrium, extensive form and sequential equilibrium, bargaining and signalling, cheap talk, screening, moral hazard, adverse selection, repeated games, mechanism design, surplus extraction, super modularity, etc. Here is a link to the couse website ECON-S431