Program Structure

Over the course of one academic year, students complete a slate of required courses focused on the global financial system and delve into specialized electives.

Required Courses: 28 Credits total

Systemic-Risk Colloquium (4 credits, Year Long) (English and Metrick)
Colloquium is a year-long course with 2 credits each semester (4 credits in total). Students will produce a thesis at the end of the colloquium. It will meet on Friday, 2:30pm-4:00pm. Colloquium will consist of presentations by the students and outside speakers. On the weeks without any presentation, students will have individual meetings with his or her thesis advisor to discuss the thesis project. The colloquium is required for students in the MMS Systemic Risk program. It will be open to other Yale SOM students subject to permission from the instructor. 

Financial Stability Regulation (4 credits, Fall) (McNamara and Rhee) 
A comparative approach to Financial Stability regulation around the world. Covers international guidelines (Basel, Solvency), supra‐national arrangements in the EU, and national‐level laws in major economies.

Monetary Policy (4 credits, Fall) (English) 
An intermediate course in macroeconomics, focused on the tools used by monetary economists. Includes an introduction to macroeconomic forecasting as practiced by central banks.

The Global Financial Crisis (4 credits, Fall) (Metrick and Geithner)
Surveys the causes, events, policy responses, and aftermath of the recent global financial crisis. The main goal is to provide a comprehensive view of this major economic event within a framework that explains the dynamics of financial crises in a modern economy.

Capital Markets (4 credits, Spring) (Gorton)
Capital Markets is a course covering a range of topics, including the design, pricing, and trading of corporate bonds, structured notes, hybrid securities, credit derivatives, and structured products, such as asset‐backed securities and collateralized debt obligations.

Central Banking (4 credits, Spring) (English) 
An overview of central banking, with an emphasis on the interactions of monetary and macroprudential policies. Covers central‐bank decision making, open‐market operations, quantitative easing, management of multiple mandates, and coordination with other domestic and international agencies.

Macroprudential Policy (4 credits, Spring) (Benediktsdottir) 
A quantitative approach to stress testing, systemic risk measurement, designation and monitoring of systemically important institutions and markets, countercyclical capital buffers, and the international coordination of macroprudential policies.

Electives: 8 credits total (4 credits in Fall, 4 credits in Spring)

Must include at least 4 credits in statistics, and 4 (additional beyond required courses) credits in economics or finance.

Elective in Statistics
Students are strongly recommended to take Applied Quantitative Analysis taught at the Jackson Institute of Global Affairs by Justin Thomas. Other recommended courses are listed below, however, there may be restrictions due to overlapping time with the required courses in the MMS program. Also, the availability of these classes may vary by year. Students wishing to take classes beyond the recommended list must obtain prior approval that it satisfies the required elective credit in Statistics.

Term Offered	Course Code	Title	Instructor
Fall	GLBL 121	Applied Quantitative Analysis	Justin Thomas
Fall	APHY 470	Statistical Methods with Applications in Science and Finance	Sohrab Ismail-Beigi
Fall	MGT 672	Big Data	Donald Lee
Fall	MGT 611	Policy Modeling	Edward Kaplan
Fall	ECON 131	Econometrics & Data Analysis I	TBD
Fall	ECON 132	Econometrics & Data Analysis II	TBD
Fall	ECON 550	Econometrics I*	TBD
Spring	GLBL 121	Applied Quantitative Analysis	Justin Thomas
Spring	MGT 829	Statistical Modeling	Jonathan Feinstein
Spring	MGT 877	Simulation Modeling	Anjani Jain
Spring	ECON 131	Econometrics & Data Analysis I	TBD
Spring	ECON 131	Econometrics & Data Analysis II	TBD
Spring	ECON 551	Econometrics II*	TBD