Course Factsheet

Attendance mandatory?	No
Attendance recommended?	Yes
Textbook recommended?	Yes
Slides sufficient?	No
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syllabus 30287 2024.pdf

Tips

Words cannot express how much I recommend attending the lectures, but numbers can: 9/10.
As Professor Perotti will reiterate extensively throughout the course, he feels free to put in the exam whatever he mentioned in class, and be assured that he will → follow the lectures
To take notes effectively, the slides are usually a good starting point. There is no need to write down everything he says that’s written on there, but as soon as he deviates from the script, note it down.

Take a picture of everything the Professor writes on the whiteboard; the pictures will be worth gold.

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Notes

Second time in my life that I take note-taking seriously, and I have to admit it was quite fun.

Any notes and boxes in purple denote that the content is not present on the slides and that it was added by the professor during the lectures.

Disclaimer: notes are based mostly on what Professor Perotti published, which are in turn mostly based on the International Economics textbook by Paul Krugman (yes, it is the same you used for international economics in the second year).

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First Partial

Second Partial

30287_MaWE___Ch_18.pdf

30287_MaWE___Ch_19.pdf

30287_MaWE___Ch_21.pdf

Exercises

This file is just a recap of the 5 problem sets that the Professor published during the semester. None of these PS are graded, so I feel comfortable sharing them here.

30287_MaWE___Problems.pdf

Articles

One thing I really enjoyed about this course is that we spend a decent amount of times reading, and sometimes debunking, news articles. Here you can find the list, and the related pdfs, of articles discussed.

1. Why Japan’s economy remains a warning to others.pdf

2. The power and the limits of the American dollar.pdf

3. How to build a global currency.pdf

4. State-backed support puts renminbi on course for best monthly rise since January.pdf

5. Opinion - What Janet Yellen Needs to Tell China’s Leaders - The New York Times.pdf

6. Xi Jinping says China’s exports are helping ease global inflation.pdf

7. Strong dollar fuels wave of emerging market currency devaluations.pdf

8. End to Nigeria currency peg causes biggest fall in naira’s history.pdf

9. Nigerian central bank chief Emefiele defends unorthodox policies.pdf

10. Why a stronger dollar is dangerous.pdf

11. European interest rates are set to diverge from the US.pdf