Economics and Monetary Policy: An International PerspectiveSemester Course

DIS Stockholm, Economics of Global Monetary Policies and Capital Flows, Elective Course
Major Discipline(s)
Economics, Finance
Type
Elective Course
Available
Fall/Spring semester
Credit(s)
3

The 2007 financial crisis was a wake-up call for economists. The global nature of the crisis has highlighted the 21st-century economy’s unprecedented global interdependence — and its accompanying vulnerability to international pressure on money markets and capital. This course explores a variety of economic accounts of how money markets, monetary policies, foreign exchange, and capital interact in the global economy, and how these relate to current debates on how best to regulate the world’s financial systems.

Faculty

Greger Wahlstedt

DIS Stockholm Semester Faculty

MBA (Finance, Manchester Business School) and CEFA (Certified European Financial Analyst) from Stockholm School of Economics. Greger has been working for more than 30 years in the financial markets. He has a solid experience as head of large asset management units; 14 years as head of Handelsbanken's fixed income fund management and asset allocation, as well as heading the investment division at the swedish central bank (Riksbanken) in charge of the management of the gold and foreign exchange reserves. Originally, an economist, but he has also worked as quant analyst as well as senior sales in structured derivatives and Private Banking at Handelsbanken. He is an appreciated teacher in economics, bond markets and interest rate products, among other things. Since 2010 he is a subconsultant to Finanskompetens and educates Investment advisors in finance, financial markets and portfolio theory for the SwedSec license. Examples of such employees who need that licence can be investment advisors, brokers, managers, analysts, compliance officers, risk managers and management. Greger has been a member of the Credit Market group in The Swedish Society of Financial Analysts (SFF) for 20 years. With DIS Stockholm since 2017.