Master in Financial Engineering (MFE)
Fall 2018
Objectives
Macroeconomics is the study of the aggregate behavior of market participants, i.e. consumers, firms, workers, governments, central banks, foreign investors. Decision making by investment bankers, product/sales managers, policy makers, or consumers must rely on the understanding of the main forces driving GDP, inflation, interest rates. The goal of this course is to provide a coherent and formal framework that can be used to understand macroeconomic events and policy decisions.
To see the outline and the material for this course, go to the course Moodle webpage. You can connect to Moodle using your Gaspar username and password. To access the documents you need an enrollment key, which will be given to you during the first session of this course.
Useful Links
- U.S. Economic Report of the President (Downloadable Reports/Tables)
- FRED II: Economic Data for the U.S.