ECON 463
Financial History Spring 2010
Division II
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This course opens with a brief survey of some of the major characteristics, issues, and challenges of financial systems today, and then examines earlier experience with these phenomena. Topics to be examined include: the role of finance in economic development historically; the relationship between finance and government, and the extent to which it has changed over time; the lessons from early asset bubbles for modern financial systems; the effect of institutions (laws, norms, and culture) and political systems in shaping the impact of finance, as illustrated by comparisons between Mexico and the U.S., among other cases; and lessons from U.S. financial history for policies today. The course also examines the tools that were developed in earlier epochs to deal with different risks, evaluate their efficacy, and consider lessons for modern financial regulation.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 19
Expected: 19
Class#: 3579
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: evaluation will consist either of 6 short papers or 3 short papers and one longer research paper (student choice), at least one oral presentation, and contributions to class discussions
Prerequisites: Economics 363, 384, or 392 (that is, any one of those three courses), or permission of instructor
Enrollment Preferences: senior Economics majors
Distributions: Division II

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