Teaching

A selection of the courses I have taught are below, with links to materials. 

In addition, while lecturing at Cambridge, I also taught MRes Advanced Macro (recursive competitive equilibrium, Stokey-Lucas), undergraduate labor market (including DMP),  and MPhil core macro. I also have taught various exec-ed type courses in relation to digital assets/future of finance, and the core macro sequence for Queen Mary's EMAP course for UK civil service economists.

I also privately teach short (4-6 hours) hands-on courses on stablecoins and their regulation. Please contact me if you or your company are interested in such instruction.

Digital Assets

Last offered: 2024 (KBS)

An 8 week course of 2 hours live lectures and 1 hour pre-lecture material per week (plus some hands on smart contract labs using Metamask and Remix to deploy and interact with simple ERC-20 tokens on Sepolia). Offered on a part-time, online MSc in Financial Policy and Regulation. Begins with simple cryptography, blockchain fundamentals, smart contracts, tokens and defi protocols. Also covers CBDC and digital asset regulation.

Advanced Monetary Policy

Last offered: 2024 (KBS)

An 8 week course of 2 hours live lectures and 1 hour pre-lecture material per week  (plus some dynare exercises - and a set of background notes on intertemporal consumption and consumption-based asset pricing). Offered on a part time, online MSc in Financial Policy and Regulation. First 5 weeks fairly low tech (aims of mon pol, conventional tools, unconventional tools, monetary and fiscal interaction, models with financial frictions) before the final 3 weeks devoted to more technical topics around the standard New Keynesian model, with applications in Dynare.

Macroeconomics

Last offered: 2019 (Oxford, Said Business School)

Introductory GE building up to the NK economy via endowment and RBC production economies. No dynamic programming or solution methods. Final classes apply this knowledge to recent debates over conventional and unconventional monetary policy and over the causes of and responses to the financial crisis.

International Finance

Last offered: 2019 (Oxford, Said Business School)

This relatively non-technical course develops frameworks useful in understanding current issues of macro performance and capital flows in the international economy. The emphasis is on the interdependent nature of these issues in a globalized world. Topics covered include: currency regimes and crises, globalization and growth, capital flows and financial stability, sovereign debt and resource wealth.

The New Keynesian Model

Last offered: 2019 (Warwick Business School)

Half-term course on the basic New Keynesian model. No dynamic programming or solution methods, but focusing on the core of the intuition of the basic NK framework.