ITF 220 - Harvard Kennedy School

ITF 220: The Economics of International Financial Policy, Course Preview & Relation to Other Courses Prof. Jeffrey Frankel Harvard Kennedy School January 2014

• Prerequisite for ITF 220: API 121 Spring Filipe Campante Macro Theory & Policy Or its equivalent: standard Intermediate Macroeconomics • [A substitute for ITF 220, but at a more basic level: ITF-100 not offered this Fall Alfred Schipke

International Capital Markets ]

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At more advanced levels: • API-120 Fall JF Advanced Macro for Open Economy I • API-119 Spring Filipe Campante Advanced Macro for Open Economy II

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Other useful / relevant courses • Econometrics

• Finance – – API-141 Fall Akash Deep – ITF 270 Spring Carmen Reinhart

Finance Financial Crises

• International trade -– at a much less technical level, • ITF-110 F

Robert Lawrence

Political Economy of Trade

– at same level as ITF-220: • [ITF-210 F

Robert Lawrence

Economics of Trade Policy]

• ITF-225 S

Robert Lawrence & Larry Summers

Future of Globalization

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