Tomorrow’s lecture will review the functions of the ECB and discuss the transmission mechanisms of monetary policy with regard to the interaction of the central bank and very large, institutional investors. We’ll use pensions as an example of a very large institutional fund which has direct effects on the population when things go wrong.
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This lecture introduces students to the CDO and CDS markets. We’ll talk about the structure of the markets, and describe how they are affecting Ireland at the moment. Here’s a 3 slides per page handout, and the slides are below.
Ec4024 2009 Lecture 16 CDOs
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Also taggedThis lecture will introduce financial economics students to the concepts of Irish corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility. The goal is to show how lax corporate governance and financial fragility as defined by Minsky interact. Given the recent episodes in our indigenous banking sector, this lecture is pertinent, timely, and practical.
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Why don’t students go to class anymore?
This is a constant refrain in faculty lounges around the world. One answer MIT surveyors found was when students didn’t feel they were learning, they didn’t go.
This is certainly because the penalty to not going to a lecture is reduced by the presence of online [...]
Here are Mathematica notes, slides, and code for a course I taught at NUI, Galway in 2006. I recall it didn’t go down that well, but the notes are pretty cool implementations of standard Solow/Ramsey type models, so I think, on reflection, I’ll put them out there.
You’ll need Mathematica or the free mathematica player to [...]