Economics 331: International Finance - Spring 2004
Professor Alberto Isgut,
PAC 222, Phone: 685-3958
Lectures: TTh 2:40-4:00, JUDD 113
Office Hours: Tu 4:10-5:00, Th 10:30-11:30, or by appointment
Course Assistant:
Stephen Lee - Sessions: T 9:30-10:30,
PAC 125
Announcements:
Term paper due Thursday, April 29 at 14:40pm
Handouts:
Syllabus
Suggestions for writing research essays
Problem Sets:
| No. | Distributed | Due at the beginning of class of | Returned |
| 1 | Thursday, Jan. 29 | Thursday, Feb. 5 | Tuesday, Feb. 10 |
| 2 | Thursday, Feb. 5 | Thursday, Feb. 12 | Tuesday, Feb. 17 |
| 3 | Thursday, Feb. 12 | Friday, Feb. 20 (2pm) | Tuesday, Feb. 24 |
| 4 | Thursday, Feb. 19 | Friday, Feb. 27 (2pm) | Tuesday, Mar. 2 |
| 5 | Thursday, Mar. 25 | Thursday, Apr. 1 | Tuesday, Apr. 6 |
| 6 | Thursday, Apr. 1 | Thursday, Apr. 8 | Tuesday, Apr. 13 |
| 7 | Thursday, Apr. 8 | Monday, Apr. 19 (11am) | Tuesday, Apr. 20 |
| 8 | Thursday, Apr. 15 | Friday, Apr. 23 (3pm) | Tuesday, Apr. 27 |
Links:
A-
Data
Economist Intelligence Unit's Country Data
IMF's International Financial Statistics
Penn
World Table version 6.0
Economagic
Joint BIS-IMF-OECD-World Bank statistics on external debt
World Bank's Global Development Finance (2003)
IMF's Gobal Financial Stability Report (09/03)
A chronology of emerging markets and US important events
Pierrre Agenor's datasets
Institute for international finance
B-Articles and Analysis
Nouriel Roubini's page on Global Macroeconomic and Financial Policy
Giancarlo Corsetti's page on Euro
Sergio Schmukler's page on Contagion
Balance of payments, by Herbert Stein
Brian Doyle's page on New Open Economy Macro
C- Other
Economics Department Home Page