All LSE executive education participants are required to have:

• Fluency in English.
• A good undergraduate degree or significant work experience in a relevant role(s).
• Minimum two years’ professional experience. Typically our participants have more than ten years’ work experience.

Course pre-requisites
Basic knowledge of Macroeconomics

What are the implications of current economic events and policy choices for investment and strategic decisions? This course will provide participants with state-of-the-art analytical tools to be able to assess relevant policy debates and the implications of policy choices.

This course will offer a mix of lectures and student-led discussions involving LSE faculty and high profile external speakers. A key feature of this course is the focus on current events.

This executive course will investigate the following key topics:

• External imbalances: how to detect vulnerabilities in Emerging Market Economies
• Structure of the European Monetary Union and its fragility: what's next?
• What have we learned on fiscal policy during the crisis?
• Fiscal rules in the EU
• Macroeconomic imbalances in the EU
• A case study: Italy
• China’s economic growth and its prospects for future years, and its impact on the world economy.
• The EU fiscal framework and its evolution.
• Are advanced economies trapped in world of low growth and low interest rates?

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• Gain a grasp on the up-to-date economic theories that interpret current events
• Develop a road map on how to access external sustainability for emerging markets economies
• Debate and understand the origins and the implications of imbalances within the Euro area
• Develop an understanding of the monetary policy framework under which major Central Banks operate
• Achieve an understanding of the economic linkages among current macroeconomic events
• Increase the depth of your knowledge around the question of whether large deficits lead to sovereign defaults
• Understand what determines the risk of sovereign debt and the perceived likelihood of default
• Gain a greater understanding of China’s role in the global economy, and the impact of Chinese policies on the rest of the world
• Take away learnings from in-depth debate on whether China’s exchange rate policy is prone to bubble-creation, and if the country’s current experience holds similarities with the Japanese experience.

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The course will be taught by:

• Dr Gianluca Benigno
• Professor Paul De Grauwe

Guest speakers:

• Lorenzo Codogno, Visiting Professor in Practice at LSE
  Former Chief Economist, Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance
• Brunello Rosa
  CEO and Head of Research, Rosa & Roubini Associates; Research Associate, LSE Systemic Risk Centre
• Dr Linda Yueh
  Visiting Professor, LSE IDEAS