MSc Financial Economics: Financial Markets and Regulation
MSc Finance: Financial Markets and Crisis
| Date | Lecture Notes and Optional Reading |
| Tuesday, 14 Jan |
Asset Price Bubbles: Part I, Part II, Reading |
| Wednesday, 15 Jan (90 min.) |
Monetary Policy in Normal Times and During a Crisis, Reading |
| Tuesday, 21 Jan | Speculative Attacks: Part I, Part II, Reading |
| Wednesday, 22 Jan | How the Crisis Arose, Reading |
| Tuesday, 28 Jan | Central Banks: Part I,
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| Wednesday, 29 Jan | Prudential Regulation and Crisis Management, Reading |
Additional Reading: blogs, columns and reports on many topics
John Cochrane’s blog, The Grumpy Economist
Paul Krugman's blogs and columns, Conscience of a Liberal.
Greg Mankiw’s blog, Random Observations for Students of Economics
IMF blog, IMF Direct
Reports by the panel of experts for the ECON committee of the European Parliament for its Quarterly Dialogue with the ECB (Click on the different years in the grey box at the top)
MSc Fin Econ students will have 10
weeks of lectures, Easter essay, 3 hour exam in June
MSc Fin students doing only the five week
version as an option will have a two hour exam in May/June
Scheduling clarification: the only slot that is 90 minutes is on Wednesday 15 January. All other slots, including 14 January are the full evening.