Courses
ECON 235: Money, Banking, and Financial Markets
Considers the roles of commerical banks, private investors, national monetary authorities, and international financial flows in influencing domestic money and financial markets. Basic elements of monetary, banking, and finance theory are reviewed and their implications for interest rate forecasting are considered.
ECON 238: Current Issues in Money and Finance
Focuses on a number of major current issues in monetary and financial policy. Topics include the political and economic forces that stimulate inflationary pressures, the debate over the effects of fiscal deficits and strategies for conducting monetary policy in a world of financial innovations and international interdependence.
ECON 240: The World Economy
Basic elements of international economics for international relations students.
ECON 265: Industrial Organization
Industrial Organization applies microeconomic theory and econometric analysis to study firms and markets. Both theoretical and empirical work is considered, and implications for business strategy and public policy are discussed. Topics include imperfect competition, pricing, advertising, entry and exit, industry evolution, cartel formation, vertical integration, mergers, antitrust, and regulation. Several real world industries are used to focus ideas, provide examples, and test theories.
ECON286: Public Choice
Analysis of the role of government in the economy and problems of collective decision-making. The tools of welfare economics and price theory are joined to analyze issues such as elections and voting, political representation, bureaucracy, and the evolution of states and constitutional choice. Attention will be paid to other non-market institutions such as family and private nonprofit organizations. Prerequisite: intermediate microeconomics.
ECON300: Political Economy and Social Inquiry
This writing-intensive course places economics within the context of the evolution of political economy, and the social sciences more generally. Traditional economics methodology is analyzed and new broader perspectives on economic policy are highlighted, such as the public choice and law and economics approaches, as are the intersections of economics with sociological and psychological approaches.
ECON 302: Macroeconomic Analysis I
Discusses the potential causes of short-run fluctuations in output and employment. It will examine both market-clearing and non-market-clearing explanations and investigate the role of assumptions concerning expectations formation, imperfect competititon, imperfect information, menu costs, contracts, credibility, and the nature of shocks to the economy. Empirical research relating to these theories will be introduced.
ECON 303: Macroeconomic Analysis II
Covers the fundamentals of goods, labor, and money markets from a variety of perspectives, and the impact of macroeconomic policies on inflation, unemployment, interest rates and growth in open and closed economics.
ECON 304: Growth and Development
Analyzes the behavior of a variety of static and dynamic macroeconomic models and considers the implications of such propositions as the Ricardian Equivalence Theorem, the Permanent Income Hypothesis and the Rational Expectations Hypothesis. Requires differential calculus and linear algebra.
ECON 305: Computational Methods
ECON307: Mathematics for the Social Sciences
An introductory/refresher course on the basic mathematical tools necessary for policy modeling and managerial analysis. The main topics will be equations and graphs, logarithms and exponents, and calculus. The emphasis will be on problem solving. Problems will be drawn from public policy, political science, management, and economics.
ECON308: Mathematics for Economists I
An introduction to linear algebra. Vectors, matrices, linear transformations, convex sets, eigenvalue problems, quadratic forms, and relevant advanced calculus techniques. Prerequisite: one year of calculus.
ECON313: Microeconomic Analysis I
Presents the neoclassical theory of welfare economics, demand, cost, the firm, and competitive and monopoly price in product and factor markets under conditions of certainty in a rigorous way. Introduction to positive transaction costs economics. Emphasis is placed on the student's ability not only to understand the materials presented, but to apply them to concrete problems. Prerequisites: ECON 307 should be taken concurrently by all but the mathematically sophisticated.
ECON316: Advanced Microeconomics I
A modern mathematical treatment of consumer demand, theory of the firm, markets, welfare optimization, and general equilibrium. Prerequisites: ECON313 and ECON 308 or equivalent courses.
ECON317: Advanced Microeconomics II
Noncooperative game theory.
ECON324: Managerial Economics and Organization
ECON325: Economics of Strategy
ECON326: Advanced Industrial Organization
The central research question in Industrial Organization is: “How can the behavior and performance of firms and markets be explained and predicted with observable data?” Industrial Organization economists apply microeconomic theory and econometrics to study firms and markets. Both theoretical and empirical work is important, and there are several implications for business strategy and public policy.
ECON327: Applications of Behavioral Game Theory and Finance
This course considers how recent developments at the intersections of economics, finance, psychology and sociology help us understand firm and investor decisions, the evolution of industries and financial markets, contractual choices, and the internal organization of firms.
ECON329: Political Economy of Institutions and Development
The course is an introduction to the newly emerging field of political economy of institutions and development. Its purpose is to give the student a sense of the frontier of research topics and a good command of the tools in the area. Topics include: motivation and some evidence, a review of basic models of politics, understanding the effects of institutions, the mechanics of institutional failure: why governments do not work better and finally, modeling institutions.
ECON333: Money and Financial Markets
ECON335: Financial Economics and Economic Organization
This course explores the intersections of finance, industrial organization, organization theory, strategy, and the theory of the firm.
ECON337: Empirical Finance
The study of the empirical regularities in financial data, seeking to explore the question of what predicts changes in asset prices. This is not an investments course; the goal is not to instruct on how to make money in financial markets, but to understand how asset prices depend on financial and economic data.
ECON338: Advanced Topics in Money and Finance
ECON350: International Money and Finance
ECON355: International Trade Theory and Policy
Advanced treatment of recent theoretical and empirical research on international trade theory and policy, including public choice analysis of the determinants of trade policies.
ECON357: Open Economy Macroeconomics
The focus is on the theoretical and empirical modeling of the open macro-economy. Modeling strategies are examined in relation to topics of policy interest, including exchange-rate dynamics, macroeconomic adjustments, financial stability, and regional monetary integration. Technical issues associated with empirical implementation of theoretical models are investigated.
ECON358: Advancenced Topics in International Monetary and Financial Economics
ECON382: Econometrics I
ECON383: Econometrics II
ECON384: Econometrics III
MGT335: Corporate Financial Management
MGT337: Investments
MGT373: Corporate Financial Policy and Strategy
MGT382: Managerial Economics and Decision Making (Prag)
MGT383: Managerial Economics and Control (Maciariello)
MATH 255: Introduction to Game Theory
MATH 355: Linear Statistical Analysis
MATH 356: Game Theory
MATH 358: Mathematical Finance
SPE301: Behavioral Neuroscience of Decision Making
This course introduces students to behavioral neuroscience in order to inform their research in the social sciences and humanities. There is no prerequisite. It begins with lectures on how the brain works and then reviews current research on how decisions are made in the brain, including neuroeconomics, neuropolitics, neuroethics and more. There are also several field trips where students participate in live experiments measuring brain activity.
SPE315: Game Theory
This course introduces the basic concept of game theory and spatial analysis. It is useful for students who are interested in microeconomics and decision-making. Illustrations from economic and political paradigms will be used, with an emphasis on practical applications.
SPE 318: Seminar in Policy Analysis and Public Policy
This seminar considers the strengths and weaknesses of various methods of policy analysis and their uses and abuses in policy processes. These will be considered in the context of a number of applications to major policy disputes. Alternative concepts of equity and efficiency will be emphasized. Each student will prepare and present a policy analysis of a public policy issue of their choice.
SPE 323: Financial and Managerial Accounting
SPE 324: Economics of Management and Organization
This course opens up the business organization in order to understand it as an attempt to create cooperation among a group of economic people, from a New Institutional Economic standpoint. Topics include: why is there a hierarchy; the role of politics in hierarchies; incentives and control systems; and the meaning of leadership from an economic perspective.
SPE410: Foundations of Political Economy
This writing-intensive course develops modern political economy within the context of the new institutionalism in economics, politics and sociology. Neoclassical economics and the old institutionalism are shown to merge in this new approach, which introduces the concept of positive transactions costs in human exchange, where institutions emerge endogenously and most imperfectly as mechanisms to deal with human choice problems through markets, polities, and social mores. Students will form teams to apply the new institutional theory to concrete policy issues of current import. Prerequisites: microeconomics principles and basic calculus.
SPE446: Public Finance
This course analyzes the effects of exogenous taxes and public spending on economics behavior. Beyond than, it considers the economic, political, and social forces that alter the choice of public institutions and policy choices within those structures.
SPE 471: Strategic Modeling for Political, Economic, and Business Decisions
The goal of this course is to provide students with an understanding of several decision-making approaches in political science. The course is divided into four substantive sections emphasizing both theory and applications. The first section deals with a general overview of approaches and assumptions underlying positive decision making in political science. The second section focuses on game theory, the third section centers on expected utility theory and finally the final section deals with spatial bargaining models.
Workshops
ECON390: Department Seminar Series (Staff)
ECON391: Research Workshop in International and Monetary Economics (Willett)
ECON392: Research Workshop in Micro and Public Economics (Borcherding/Denzau)
Tutorials and Research
ECON397: Tutorial Reading (M.A.) 2-4 units
ECON398: Independent Study (M.A.) 2-4 units
ECON399: Master's Research 2-4 units
ECON400M: Continuous Registration (M.A.)
ECON495: Dissertation Research 2-12 units
ECON497: Tutorial Reading (Ph.D.) 2-4 units
ECON498: Independent Study (Ph.D.) 2-4 units
ECON499: Doctoral Study (Ph.D.)
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