✕
RETHINK
ECONOMICS
RETHINK
ECONOMICS
... and receive personalised notifications on
new pluralistic content directly into your inbox!

Financial Crises

Alp Simsek
Level: beginner
University: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Platform: MIT Open Course Ware
Recurrence: flexible
Language: English
Discipline: Economics
Attendance: free
Workload per week: 1.5 h

This course is an introduction to the economic theories of financial crises. It focuses on amplification mechanisms that exacerbate crises, such as leverage, fire sales, bank runs, interconnections, and complexity. It also analyzes the different perspectives on the origins of crises, such as mistaken beliefs and moral hazard, and discusses the optimal regulation of the financial system. The course draws upon examples from financial crises around the world, especially the recent subprime financial crisis.

Take this course

Tags: banks | complexity | debt | financial crisis | leverage | liquidity | moral hazard
Game Theory II: Advanced Applications
Level: advanced
Game Theory II: Advanced Applications
Popularized by movies such as "A Beautiful Mind", game theory is the mathematical modeling of strategic interaction among rational (and irrational) agents. Over four weeks of lectures, this advanced course considers how to design interactions between agents in order to achieve good social outcomes. Three main topics are covered: social …
Matthew O. Jackson; Kevin Leyton-Brown; Yoav Shoham
Stanford University, The University of British Columbia
Introduction to Complexity
Level: beginner
Introduction to Complexity
In a span of around 12 weeks, the course covers a wide range of topics including agent-based modeling, networks, dynamic, chaos, information, fractals, cooperation models and scaling in biology and society. The course acts as a perfect beginner level introduction spanning a wide range of topics in the field of complexity.
Melanie Mitchell
Santa Fe Institute

Donate

This project is brought to you by the Network for Pluralist Economics (Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik e.V.).  It is committed to diversity and independence and is dependent on donations from people like you. Regular or one-off donations would be greatly appreciated.

 

Donate