ECON 538
Resilience and Macroeconomic Policy
Last Offered Spring 2020
Division II
This course is not offered in the current catalog

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Despite tremendous improvements in combating global hunger and child mortality, an increasing number of the world’s population continue to live in fragile conditions, buffeted by conflict, forced migration, weak governance, and state inability to deliver basic services to its citizens. Setting macroeconomic policy is difficult in such countries. Not only are decisions affected by policymakers’ distorted incentives and governments’ internal conflicts, fragility also deteriorates policy transmission mechanisms and constrains policy spaces. This course aims at identifying the causes and consequences of fragility and at discussing how policies should be changed to enhance resilience in such countries. The course will, first, look into the definition and characteristics of fragility, its numerical representation, and its causes and main consequences. The course will also highlight how policy is made in states of fragility, in particular, fiscal policy, monetary policy, exchange rate policy, export promotion policy, etc.), as well as consider policy interactions. Finally, the course will focus on efforts to mitigate fragility and enhance resilience in such countries, including the role of structural policies and that of international financial institutions.
The Class: Format: tutorial
Limit: 10
Expected: 10
Class#: 3179
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: students will write 5-6 papers during the term, and will prepare and deliver formal comments on 5-6 papers written by other students
Prerequisites: ECON 252 and ECON 255
Enrollment Preferences: Economics majors
Distributions: Division II
Attributes: POEC U.S. Political Economy + Public Policy Course

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