Lecture notes for the University College Dublin module International Money and Banking (ECON30150) which was taught by Professor Karl Whelan in Autumn 2023.
Lecture Notes
0. Introduction
1. Banks and Financial Intermediation
6. Incentive Problems in Banking and the Need for Regulation
7. Micro-Prudential Banking Regulation
8. Macro-Prudential Banking Regulation
10. Monetarism
11. How Central Banks Set Interest Rates: The Federal Reserve
12. How Central Banks Set Interest Rates: The ECB
14. Default Risk and Collateral, Quantitative Easing
15. The Phillips Curve: Evidence and Implications
16. Real Interest Rates and the Taylor Rule
17. Exchange Rate Regimes and the Euro
18. The Euro Crisis