ITF 220: The Economics of
International Financial Policy,
Course Preview & Relation to Other Courses
Prof. Jeffrey Frankel
Harvard Kennedy School
January 2014

• Prerequisite for ITF 220:
API 121 Spring Filipe Campante
Macro Theory & Policy
Or its equivalent: standard Intermediate Macroeconomics
• [A substitute for ITF 220, but at a more basic level:
ITF-100 not offered this Fall
Alfred Schipke
International Capital Markets
]
2

• API-120 Fall JF
Advanced Macro for Open Economy I
• API-119 Spring Filipe Campante
Advanced Macro for Open Economy II
3

• Econometrics
• Finance –
– API-141 Fall Akash Deep Finance
– ITF 270 Spring Carmen Reinhart Financial Crises
• International trade --
– at a much less technical level,
• ITF-110 F Robert Lawrence Political Economy of Trade
– at same level as ITF-220:
• [ITF-210 F Robert Lawrence Economics of Trade Policy]
• ITF-225 S Robert Lawrence Future of Globalization
& Larry Summers
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