Advanced Macroeconomics for the Open Economy II

Harvard HKS

This course is the second in the two-course sequence on macroeconomic policy in the MPA/ID program. Topics covered in the first half of the course include international financial integration, exchange rate models, speculative attacks, the carry trade, portfolio choice, currency risk, default risk, Debt Sustainability Analysis, and crises in Emerging Markets. The second half of the course uses tools of dynamic optimization. Topics covered include, among others, the Solow and…