Each of the following modules grants 6 ECTS.
Modules in the summer semester
- Recent Advances in International Trade: provides an overview over new research developments in the field of international trade, e.g. models with heterogenous firms
- International Financial Markets: covers empirical methods and theoretical models like the efficiency of international capital markets or sustainability of sovereign debt and sovereign default
- Trade Policy: covers theory and empirical regularities in modern trade policy
- European Integration: become familiar with important facts, concepts and models that are necessary to understand the real economic and monetary aspects of European integration
- Topics in Structural Transformation: covers basic theories and influential and/or frontier empirical studies on how countries, especially developing economies, experience structural transformation or the lack of such transformation, as they grow
Modules in the winter semester
- European Integration: become familiar with important facts, concepts and models that are necessary to understand the real economic and monetary aspects of European integration
- Global Imbalances and External Adjustments
- International Monetary Economics: covers determinants of exchange rates and their influence on economic activity, the role ofcentral banks and the effects of monetary policy, the key properties of the international financial system, and the origins and evolution of currency crises
- Macroeconomic Aspects of Financial Integration