{"id":5287,"date":"2016-07-08T10:30:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T01:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pp.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/?post_type=student-bulletin&#038;p=5287"},"modified":"2016-07-08T13:20:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T04:20:59","slug":"2016-07-08-3","status":"publish","type":"student-bulletin","link":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/student-bulletin\/2016-07-08-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Life at an IFI: Understanding, Designing and Debating Macroeconomic Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of registered students remains below ideal in terms of diversity and for active discussion purposes while small enough for intensive practice of policy paper writing, one-on-one consultation and mock job interviews. For this reason, three (3) more students who are interested in this course could be accepted on a first-come and first-served basis by filling out and submitting an information form as attached by Wednesday, July 13 by e-mail to Nishizawa [tnishizawa@pp.u-tokyo.ac.jp] with the subject line starting with 5130280.<\/p>\n<p>Attached are a revised syllabus and a note on good policy writing for this course. Please be informed that basic knowledge of economics is a prerequisite for taking this course.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pp.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/5130280_2016S2_IFI_StudentInformationForm_20160708.docx\">5130280_2016S2_IFI_StudentInformationForm_20160708<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pp.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/5130280_2016S2_RevisedSyllabus_20160708.pdf\">5130280_2016S2_RevisedSyllabus_20160708<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pp.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/5130280_2016S2_GoodPolicyWriting_20160708.pdf\">5130280_2016S2_GoodPolicyWriting_20160708<\/a><br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\nJerald (Jerry) Schiff is former Deputy Director of the Asia and Pacific Department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and has led the institution&#8217;s work on India, Korea, Myanmar, Singapore and Japan. He served in a number of other positions at the Fund, including as Senior Advisor in the Office of the Managing Director, and as a Division Chief in the European Department, where he led the Fund\u2019s work on several former Soviet countries. Jerry has a BS in Economics\/Government from Cornell University and a PhD in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.<\/p>\n<p>Toshiro Nishizawa<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","student-bulletin-cat":[60],"student-bulletin-tag":[],"class_list":["post-5287","student-bulletin","type-student-bulletin","status-publish","hentry","student-bulletin-cat-course"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/student-bulletin\/5287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/student-bulletin"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/student-bulletin"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"student-bulletin-cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/student-bulletin-cat?post=5287"},{"taxonomy":"student-bulletin-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/student-bulletin-tag?post=5287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}