Emerging Markets: Active Learning Weekend

What makes investing in emerging markets—countries from Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe—different from investing in developed markets in the United States, West Europe, or Japan? What are the benefits of adding these markets to a traditional investment portfolio? How have these markets been shaped by populist geopolitics, artificial intelligence (AI), and automation? As a companion course to ECON E-1925 , this active learning weekend helps explore emerging markets through a mix of guest speakers, case studies, and problem sets.

Students strengthen their quantitative and qualitative skills to improve their investment acumen in these burgeoning markets.

Over the weekend, the course dives deep into the practical aspects and limitations of trading and investing in the asset mix covered in ECON E-1925 as both an individual and institutional investor.

Students examine investment indices and strategies that professional investors use to outperform them.

We also investigate the rise of China and state capitalism, and how this trend may rival traditional market-based systems.

Students may not take both ECON E-1925w (offered previously) and MGMT E-7035 for degree or certificate credit.