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MSFS-594 International Financial Institutions
Spring only
Lowery, Clay
The class will primarily cover the practical aspects of preventing and managing international financial crises. The class will touch on the macroeconomic and financial underpinnings of crisis prevention and crisis management -- as well as the critiques of the methods used. Moreover, particular emphasis will be placed on the informal standing
groups like the G7, G20, Financial Stability Forum as well as the main multilateral International Financial Institutions (e.g., the IMF and World Bank).
The class will be in the context of today's current financial turmoil and will examine some of the international aspects of the crisis. Students will become familiar with the purpose and structure of the institutions as well as analyzing their main activities. They will examine how these institutions -- both formal structures and informal groupings -- interact with borrowers and national governments and how international financial policy is shaped.
Students will consider key policy challenges facing the international financial system and examine how the institutions interact with, and react to, financial markets. The main focus will be on emerging markets and industrial economies rather than on low income countries and development issues, although the poverty reduction work of the IFIs and the major international debt forgiveness programs will be reviewed. They will gain an understanding of how the organizations function, evolve, and the key challenges they face going forward.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
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Spring '10:
Lowery C
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