Overview
The University of Surrey and the lecturers have extensive experience with online teaching and have state-of-the-art systems to do so, as well as being able to deliver highly interactive lectures. All sessions will be recorded, though it is expected that participants attend them live, to enable interactions with the lecturers.
What you will learn
This year’s Online Easter School on Fiscal Policy and Sovereign Debt Markets will present courses on:
- Optimal fiscal policy (and computational methods)
- Topics in sovereign debt and default
- Secondary markets for sovereign debt (Repo and CDS markets, procyclical and countercyclical margins).
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Optimal fiscal policy under complete financial markets and solution algorithms
- Numerical methods for optimal fiscal policy under complete financial markets
- Optimal fiscal policy under incomplete financial markets
- Numerical methods for optimal fiscal policy under incomplete financial markets
- Traditional sovereign debt model
- Long term duration bond model
- Self-fulfilling debt model
- Quantitative properties of sovereign default model
- Recourse and non-recourse loans; credit secured by durable goods
- Short term loans backed by securities; over-the-counter versus centrally cleared repo markets; leverage and short-sales; repo specialness
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 4 days
Start dates & application deadlines
- Start date: to be confirmed
Language
Delivered
Campus Location
- Guildford, United Kingdom
Disciplines
Economics View 45 other Short Courses in Economics in United KingdomWhat students do after studying
Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
Applicants must have a:
- Background in macroeconomics with some knowledge of macro-modelling and dynamic optimisation.
- Basic knowledge of Matlab programming.
- Working knowledge of English.
Tuition Fees
Additional Details
- Fees are to be confirmed