10 – 20 Nov
2025
Advanced Studies Program
International Finance – Christoph Trebesch (Kiel Institut)
Course Description:
The International Finance course taught by Prof. Trebesch focuses on international finance, with an emphasis on sovereign debt, capital flows and crises. The course will focus on cutting-edge contributions in the literature.
The course is structured around three main topics:
- Sovereign risk, international lending, and debt crises
- Cross-border capital flows (FDI, Equity, Credit) and financial globalization
- Geopolitics and international finance (focus on China and official capital flows)
Christoph Trebesch (Kiel Institut)
Christoph Trebesch is Director of the Research Center on International Finance at the Kiel Institute and Professor of Macroeconomics at Kiel University. He is the founding Director of the Kiel Initiative on Geoeconomics and serves as Principal Investigator in the ERC project Great.Power.Finance and in the Excellence Cluster SCRIPTS. He is also a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the German Ministry of Finance.
His research lies at the intersection of international finance, macroeconomics, economic history, and political economy. He an expert on sovereign debt, financial crises, China’s role in global finance, and the economics of populism. His current research focuses on geoeconomics. In 2021, he launched the Kiel Initiative on Geoeconomics. In addition, he developed the widely cited Ukraine Support Tracker, measuring military and financial aid to Ukraine.
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