Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Markets Program

Students in the BSE Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Markets Program will obtain relevant knowledge about the central issues in Macroeconomic and Financial Economics analysis.

They will also learn the key tools, data, models, and techniques now being used by public and private institutions.

Policy-makers are often forced to make decisions under conditions of uncertainty, but the results of these decisions may directly influence a country’s overall economic performance. While a thorough understanding of aggregate economy dynamics is necessary for success, it is not entirely sufficient. Organizations must also be knowledgeable of the many sources of aggregate risk and uncertainty, and must rely on the analytical tools available to study the aggregate economy.

Financial and consulting firms increasingly utilize complex economic theories. Students will not only learn how to use these modeling and statistical techniques, but will conduct an independent master’s project to learn how to apply these new skills to real empirical work.

Our program also offers students guest seminars and lectures by international academics and practitioners.

This program covers economic techniques such as dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE), vector autoregression (VAR), nowcasting and forecasting as well as data science and machine learning. Our graduates are prepared with an expert grasp of aggregate economy and financial fundamentals and can build macroeconomic and market forecasts – skills that consulting firms, investment banks, and government agencies are all in need of.

Given the applied, quantitative nature of this program, students will need to furnish their own laptop computer.