Economic Strategies for Public and Priva

The class focuses on strategies for optimal decisionmaking by managers in the public and private sectors. At the level of public- and private-sector firms, the areas covered will include pricing with market power, investment in risky situations, exporting and importing, productivity and compensation of workers and managers in unionized and non-unionized firms, and employment setting. At the level of government institutions, the areas covered will include government budget constraints and debt sustainability, capital flow waves, optimal taxes, tariffs, quotas and subsidies, market regulation, and competition policies. Related issues to be considered include internal and external macroeconomic shocks, macroeconomic policies in the energy transition, and the role of international institutions. There will be several guest lectures on these and other topics.