Graduate International Finance (Econ 641)

Syllabus

Class	Topic / Paper	Reading	Codes / Homeworks
1	International Capital and Labor Mobility	Lucas 1990 AER 80/2 (notes) Klein and Ventura 2005
2	International Firm Mobility	Burstein and Monge-Naranjo 2005 (notes)
3	Local Approximation Methods	Notes Farmer 1993 (book) Klein 2000 JEDC Söderlind 1999 EER Schmitt-Grohé and Uribe 2004 JEDC	(codes on Klein, Söderlind, Uribe web pages) Homework 1 HP filter code (gauss) My code for HW1
4	Puzzles in International Finance	Obstfeld & Rogoff 2000 NBER Backus 1999 Stock and Watson 2005 JEEA
5	A Workhorse International RBC Model	Heathcote and Perri 2002 JME Heathcote and Perri 2003 AER P&P Backus, Kehoe and Kydland 1995 (book chapter) Baxter and Crucini 1995 IER	Homework 2 My code for HW 2: 1,2,3,4
6	The International Diversification Puzzle	Heathcote and Perri 2004 Baxter and Jermann 1997 AER Cole and Obstfeld 1991 JME
8	Risk-Sharing with Limited Enforcement	Kocherlakota 1996 ReStud Ljungqvist & Sargent, Chapters 19,20 (notes)	Homework 3
9	Applications and Decentralization	Kehoe and Perri 2002 Eca (notes) Alvarez and Jermann 2000 Eca (notes)
10	EXAM	Exam
11	Dollarization	Arellano and Heathcote 2005	My code for HW3
12	Understanding Default	Aguiar and Gopinath 2004 Arellano 2005
13	International Pricing Puzzles	Atkeson and Burstein 2005