Gadi Barlevy

FINANCE
Senior Lecturer of Finance

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Gadi Barlevy is a senior economist and economic advisor in the economic research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and currently visiting Kellogg School of Management. His research covers diverse areas, including business cycles, wage inequality, economic growth, research and development, information economics, asset bubbles and price crashes, job search and unemployment, robust macroeconomic policy, and incentive pay in public education.

His research has appeared in the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, the Review of Economic Dynamics, the European Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Theory, the Journal of Labor Economics, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the Journal of Applied Probability.

Barlevy is a research fellow at IZA Research Institute and serves as co-editor at Theoretical Economics. He previously served as co-editor at the Review of Economic Dynamics and as an associate editor at the European Economic Review.

Prior to joining the Chicago Fed in August 2003, Barlevy was an assistant professor of economics at Northwestern University. He also was a visiting professor of economics at Tel Aviv University.

Barlevy received a B.A. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
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Education
PhD, 1997, Macroeconomics, Economic Theory, Harvard University
MA, 1995, Macroeconomics, Economic Theory, Harvard University
BA, 1993, Economics, University of California, Berkley

 
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Full-Time / Part-Time MBA
Macroeconomic Policy and Global Capital Markets (FINC-941-0)

This course counts toward the following majors: Finance, International Business, Analytical Finance

How do national economies evolve and interact in a globalized world? This course focuses on the economic forces and the policy responses that are relevant for business and investment strategies. Specific topics include the meaning and measures of national and international economic activity; what determines which emerging markets develop and grow, while others stagnate; what drives business cycles, how they are propagated globally, and how government policy responds; monetary policy decisions and their effect on financial institutions and credit markets; government liabilities and how markets react to government debt; what determines trade deficits and surpluses, and the relative strength of a currency. The course provides a high-level overview to aid business planning, investment strategies, and policy analysis.