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Economics for Business

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Overview

Recognize the economic factors influencing your business and make informed decisions that foster transformative change.

On completion of this course, you’ll walk away with: Tools and frameworks to navigate the economic forces affecting your business. The ability to identify and evaluate macroeconomic variables, policies, and financial indicators, and account for these events in your decision making. A critical intuition for macroeconomic trends developed through problem-based learning and led by world-renowned economist Professor Roberto Rigobon.

Syllabus

  • Orientation module: Welcome to your Online Campus
  • Module 1: The global economy
  • Module 2: Consumer confidence and policy effects
  • Module 3: Currencies, crises, and cryptos
  • Module 4: Measuring economic health: The current account
  • Module 5: Measuring economic health: The labor market
  • Module 6: Economic shocks
  • Module 7: Social and political factors
  • Module 8: Creating economic sustainability

Taught by

Roberto Rigobon

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