Topics in Global Finance EC916
International financial markets, capital flows, exchange rate determination, financial crises, sovereign debt dynamics, currency crisis models (Krugman, Obstfeld), and the trilemma of international finance.
Previous Teaching · 2017–2023
Previous Teaching
University of Warwick · Warwick Business School · Bank of England
Courses taught before joining Oxford, spanning undergraduate and master's macroeconomics and finance at the University of Warwick and Warwick Business School, executive training at the Bank of England, and the Warwick summer school.
Masters
Economic Analysis EC9DA
Core MSc module: consumer and producer theory, general equilibrium, market failures, IS-LM, AS-AD, and monetary and fiscal policy frameworks.
Undergraduate
Quantitative Economics EC106
First-year quantitative methods: calculus, linear algebra, optimisation, and introductory statistics applied to economic problems.
Macroeconomics 2 EC201
Intermediate macroeconomics: Solow growth, Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans, real business cycles, New Keynesian models, monetary and fiscal policy, labour markets, open-economy macroeconomics.
Financial Economics EC333
Portfolio theory, CAPM, factor models, efficient market hypothesis, behavioural finance, options pricing, and corporate finance theory.
Research in Applied Economics EC331
Final-year dissertation supervision. Independent empirical research using econometric methods — projects on monetary policy, financial markets, labour economics, and applied microeconomics.
Bank of England & Warwick Business School
Monetary Policy & Monetary Analysis
Training for Bank of England staff: monetary-policy transmission mechanism, inflation targeting, forward guidance, quantitative easing, and macroprudential policy.
Macroeconomics EC956
Core MBA/MSc module: macroeconomic fundamentals, business cycles, monetary and fiscal policy, financial markets, and real-economy interactions. Policy-relevant case studies and current affairs.
Summer School
Money, Banking and Finance
Intensive summer module: role of money in the economy, banking systems, financial intermediation, central banking, and financial regulation. Case studies on the 2007–08 financial crisis and European sovereign debt crisis.
Finance in the 21st Century
Contemporary finance: fintech, sustainable finance, ESG investing, digital currencies, and the evolving role of financial institutions in the 21st-century economy.
Key Textbooks
Macroeconomics
- Romer, D. — Advanced Macroeconomics, 5th ed., McGraw-Hill
- Blanchard, O. — Macroeconomics, 8th ed., Pearson
- Carlin & Soskice — Macroeconomics: Institutions, Instability, and the Financial System, OUP
Finance & International
- Obstfeld & Rogoff — Foundations of International Macroeconomics, MIT Press
- Mishkin, F. — The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets, Pearson
- Hull, J. — Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives, Pearson
Quantitative Methods
- Simon & Blume — Mathematics for Economists, Norton
- Sydsæter et al. — Further Mathematics for Economic Analysis, Pearson