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ECON 807 - Economics of Sustainable Development
Credits:
4.00
Analysis of the interrelationships among economic growth,
technological change, population increase, natural resource
use, and environmental problems, e.g., health effects of air
pollution and environmental impact of technology transfer to
less-developed nations.
ECON #811 - Economic Fluctuations
Credits:
4.00
Recurrent movements of prosperity and depression;
emphasis on causes and public-policy implications.
ECON #815 - Marxian Economic Analysis
Credits:
4.00
Analyses of captialism by Marx and contemporary Marxists.
Discussion of social class, values and prices, technical
change, capital accumulation, and socioeconomic crises.
ECON 825 - Mathematical Economics
Credits:
4.00
Principal mathematical techniques and their application in
economics. Topics covered: matrix algebra, derivatives,
unconstrained and constrained optimization, linear and
nonlinear programming, game theory, elements of integral
calculus.
ECON 828 - Time Series Analysis
Credits:
4.00
Examines the role of time series in forecasting. Studies
modern time series models, with particular emphasis on
Box-Jenkins methods. Prereq: introductory statistics. (Also
offered as ADMN 842.)
ECON #835 - Economics of Financial Markets
Credits:
4.00
Economic analysis of financial market systems. Topics
include financial market functions, theories of saving and
investment, financial intermediation, flow-of-funds
analysis, loanable funds theory, interest rate forecasting,
portfolio theory, captial-asset pricing models, structure of
interest rates (including term-structure theory), and
macroeconomic models of the financial sector.
ECON 836 - Seminar in Monetary Theory and Policy
Credits:
4.00
Contemporary developments in monetary theory and the
evaluation of policy measures.
ECON 841 - Introduction to Public Policy
Credits:
4.00
Explores the basic issues of public sector economics and
emphasizes the use of economic theory in predicting the
effects of public policy on individual behavior and the
overall economy. Specific topics include market failures,
collective decision making, cost/benefit analysis, and an
evaluation of tax and transfer programs.
ECON 845 - International Trade
Credits:
4.00
Contemporary issues in international economic theory and
policy. Analysis of trade theory, dynamics of world trade
and exchange, and international commercial policy.
ECON 846 - International Finance
Credits:
4.00
International monetary mechanisms; balance of payments,
international investment; exchange rates, adjustment systems
international liquidity, foreign aid, multinational
corporations.
ECON 847 - Multinational Enterprises
Credits:
4.00
The internationalization of economies. Growth and
implications of the multinational corporation at the level
of systems. Theories of imperialism, international
unity/rivalry; theories of direct investment; the exercise
of influence and conflict, technology transfer, bargaining
with host country; effects on U.S. economy.
ECON #856 - Labor Economics
Credits:
4.00
Recent developments in labor market analysis and public
policies related to contemporary labor issues. Labor supply,
the structure and stratification of labor markets, economic
discrimination, unemployment and poverty, inflation, and
wage-price controls.
ECON 868 - Seminar in Economic Development
Credits:
4.00
An advanced reading seminar. Topics include methodologies
underlying economic development theory, industrialization
and post-import substitution, state captialist development,
stabilization policies, appropriate technologies, the
capital goods sector, agricultural modernization schemes,
and attempts at transition to socialism.
ECON #878 - Economics of Centralized and Mixed Systems
Credits:
4.00
Origins of planning; planning agriculture and industry;
growth models; input-output and material balances; optimal
planning; value and prices in socialist economics; economic
reforms and mixed systems; and theories about the nature
of socialist societies. Mechanisms of centralized planning
in their sociohistorical context. Prereq: macroeconomics I;
microeconomics I;/ or permission.
ECON 898 - Economic Problems
Credits:
2.00 or 4.00
Special topics; may be repeated. Prereq: permission of
adviser and instructor.
ECON 899 - Master's Thesis
Credits:
1.00 to 8.00
Credit/Fail.
ECON 926 - Econometrics I
Credits:
4.00
Application and theory of statistical and econometric
methods to problems in economics. Topics: basic
statistical theory, simple and multiple regression,
violations of the basic assumptions, generalized least
squares, and introduction to simultaneous equation models.
Prereq: undergraduate statistics course.
ECON 927 - Econometrics II
Credits:
4.00
Simultaneous equation models, nonlinear estimation,
qualitative and limited-dependent variables, distributed lag
models, introduction to time series (ARIMA) models, pooling
of cross-section and time series models. Prereq:
econometrics I or its equivalent.
ECON 957 - History of Economic Thought
Credits:
4.00
Traces the development of economic thought, with careful
examination and critical appraisal of the contributions made
by important figures and schools of thought.
ECON 958 - Topics in Economic Thought and Methodology
Credits:
4.00
Advanced seminar in a selected topic in economic thought or
methodology.
ECON 972 - Macroeconomics I
Credits:
4.00
Development of the major macro models and approaches to
macroeconomics: classical, Keynes' "General Theory",
Keynesian, Monetarists, New Classical, and New Keynesian
models and views. An introduction to open economy macro
models.
ECON 973 - Macroeconomics II
Credits:
4.00
Theory, empirical specification, and tests of macroeconomic
functions. National econometric models. Theories and
empirical models of the business cycle and economic growth.
Use of models for policy analysis and forecasting. Prereq:
macroeconomics I; econometrics I.
ECON 976 - Microeconomics I
Credits:
4.00
Survey and applications of modern microeconomic theory.
Analysis of households, firms, product and resource markets,
public goods, and behavior under uncertainty.
ECON 977 - Microeconomics II
Credits:
4.00
Analysis of stability, cooperative and noncooperative game
theory, information economics, exhaustible resources,
disequilibrium, public choice, and input-output analysis.
Prereq: microeconomics I.
ECON 988 - Graduate Economics Seminar
Credits:
1.00
Required of all first-year graduate students.
ECON 995 - Independent Study
Credits:
1.00 to 6.00
Prereq: permission of adviser and instructor.
ECON 996 - Research Workshop
Credits:
2.00
A) Finance; B) Political Economy; C) Labor Economics;
D) Econometrics; E) Resource Economics; F) International
Development; G) Macroeconomics. Credit/Fail.
ECON 999 - Doctoral Research
Credits: