Univertsity of Chicago: Department of Economics

Undergraduate Program / Introduction

Undergraduate Economics at Chicago

Victor Lima, Director
Robert Herbst, Administrator


Undergraduate Program Secretary: Joanna Vlahos
Office: Rosenwald Hall, Room 229

 

 

Econ 23000 - Money and Banking
PQ: Econ 20300.

This course covers economic theories and topical issues in money and banking.   Aside from "traditional" topics such as the quantity theory, the Phillips curve and the money creation process, we shall also investigate models of bank runs and financial crises, the tradeoff between rules and discretion, the New Macroeconomic Synthesis of New Classical as well as New Keynesian approaches to modeling money and monetary policy, practical and institutional issues in European and US monetary policy as well as the 2008 financial crisis. Autumn. H. Uhlig