Teaching

Fall 2023 at UCLA

ECON 221-A: Monetary Economics I
The objective of this course is to introduce graduate students to frontier research in Monetary Economics. In the first part, we review the standard New-Keynesian model (RANK). In the second part, we analyze models of imperfect expectations and their consequences for macroeconomic outcomes. The third part focuses on recent models with household heterogeneity (HANK). The final part of the class combines both imperfect expectations and household heterogeneity.

ECON 102: Macroeconomic Theory
The goal of this course is to gain fundamental knowledge in macroeconomic topics. The goal is to gain expertise on the following questions: why do economies grow over time? What determines consumption, investment and employment? What are the causes of inflation? Why do we have recessions? How do central banks operate and what is the role of fiscal policy? This is an intermediate macroeconomics class. As such, we will study some formal models and cover statistical analysis to answer these interesting questions in the most scientific way possible. My commitment is to teach you some classic themes in macroeconomics and expose you to some recent research and debates in macroeconomics such as “why are we seeing inflation?” and “have there been major changes in the labor market?”.