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Economic Policy

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Gunther Schnabl
Tutor: Nils Sonnenberg
Start: 09.04.2020
Date: Thursday, 11:15 - 12:45
April lectures: Online via Zoom
Room: SR 14
Language: English

Objectives

This course is on economic policy in theory and practice with a focus on financial-crisis related economic policy issues in both the advanced and emerging market economies. We discuss topics such as fiscal demand stimulus, the link between monetary policy and credit booms, problems of debt sustainability and liquidation as well as international aspects of the recent crisis and economic policy responses.

Main Texts

Hayek, Friedrich August von 1931 [1935]: Prices and Production, Augustus M. Kelly, Publishers, New York.

Schnabl, Gunther 2019: Central Banking and Crisis Management from the Perspective of Austrian Business Cycle Theory, In Mayes, David / Siklos, Pierre / Sturm, Jan-Egbert (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Central Banking, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 551-584.

Requirements

This course is part of the module International Economic Policy. Besides this course the module comprises a class in European Integration as well as a seminar. Students can chose between participation in the seminars „Multilateralismus“ in Eltville or „Development Economics“ in Leipzig. Grading will be based on an exam covering the two courses worth two-thirds of your grade. For the seminar you will write a paper worth one third of your final grade.

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