ECON354 INTRODUCT. TO INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS II

Course Code:3110354
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week):3 (3.00 - 0.00)
ECTS Credit:6.5
Department:Economics
Language of Instruction:English
Level of Study:Undergraduate
Course Coordinator:Prof.Dr. ELİF AKBOSTANCI ÖZKAZANÇ
Offered Semester:Fall and Spring Semesters.

Course Objectives

This course is designed to enable the students to understand

  • external balance (Balance of Payments)
  • foreign exchange markets (spot, forward and futures markets)
  • relationship between foreign exchange markets and international financial markets
  • exchange rate determination models (monetary, portfolio balance and Dornbusch's overshooting models) 
  • macroeconomic problems of an open economy under different exchange rate regimes (Mundell-Fleming framework) 

Course Content

Balance of payments; disequilibrium and adjustment; international monetary problems; trade and economic development; international economic integration.


Course Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course students are expected

  • to evaluate the foreign exchange market dynamics
  • to understand the link between the developments in the international financial markets and the fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate
  • the grasp the relationship between macroeconomic policies (monetary and fiscal) and the financial capital flows
  • the grasp the relationship between macroeconomic policies (monetary and fiscal) and the exchange rate regimes