| ECON1 | Principles of Economics | This is an introductory course in economics. We will cover both microeconomics (investigating decisions by individuals and firms) and macroeconomics (examining the economy as a whole). The primary goal is to develop and then build on your understandi... |
| ECON10 | Microcosm of Silicon Valley and Wall Street | Seminar in applied economics with focus on the microcosm of Silicon Valley, how growth companies are originated, managed and financed from start-up to IPO. Round-table discussion format. Applicable to those students with an interest in technology co... |
| ECON101 | Economic Policy Seminar | Economic policy analysis, writing, and oral presentation. Topics vary with instructor. Limited enrollment. Prerequisites: Econ 51 and 52, 102B, and two field courses. Some sections require additional prerequisites. Enrollment by application: https://... |
| ECON102A | Introduction to Statistical Methods (Postcalculus) for Social Scientists | Probabilistic modeling and statistical techniques relevant for economics. Concepts include: probability trees, conditional probability, random variables, discrete and continuous distributions, correlation, central limit theorems, point estimation, hy... |
| ECON102B | Applied Econometrics | Hypothesis tests and confidence intervals for population variances, chi-squared goodness-of-fit tests, hypothesis tests for independence, simple linear regression model, testing regression parameters, prediction, multiple regression, omitted variable... |
| ECON102C | Advanced Topics in Econometrics | This is an advanced econometrics class targeted to students who want to go deeper into and/or expand their knowledge of topics firstly learned in Econ 102B (or equivalent class). Topics include: Instrumental variables estimation; Panel data models (f... |
| ECON102D | Econometric Methods for Public Policy Analysis and Business Decision-Making | This course focuses on the use of econometric methods in public policy analysis and business decision-making. Building on methods taught in Economics 102A and 102B, additional descriptive, predictive and causal econometric modeling methods will be i... |
| ECON106 | World Food Economy | The World Food Economy is a survey course that covers the economic and political dimensions of food production, consumption, and trade. The course focuses on food markets and food policy within a global context. It is comprised of three major section... |
| ECON108 | Data Science for Business and Economic Decisions | This course will teach from a textbook written by a prominent economist with leading expertise in data science and machine learning. Students will be presented with statistical techniques to process big data for making business and economics decision... |
| ECON111 | Money and Banking | The primary course goal is for students to master the logic, intuition and operation of a financial system - money, financial markets (money and capital markets, debt and equity markets, derivatives markets), and financial institutions and intermedia... |
| ECON112 | Financial Markets and Institutions: Recent Developments | The course covers innovations, challenges and proposed changes to the financial system. Topics include new mortgage products, foreclosure rules, securitization, credit ratings, credit derivatives, dealer networks, repo financing, implications for pru... |
| ECON113 | Historical perspectives on inequality and opportunity in America | A thematic discussion of the economic history of the United States, with emphasis on the perspective it gives on modern-day economic and social issues. Topics will include economic growth, government intervention in the economy, economic causes and c... |
| ECON118 | Development Economics | The microeconomic problems and policy concerns of less developed countries. Topics include: health and education; risk and insurance; microfinance; agriculture; technology; governance. Emphasis is on economic models and empirical evidence. Prerequisi... |
| ECON11N | Understanding the Welfare System | Welfare-reform legislation passed by the federal government in the mid-1990s heralded a dramatic step in the movement that has been termed the devolution revolution, which is again being discussed in the context of healthcare reform. The centerpiece... |
| ECON125 | Economic Development, Microfinance, and Social Networks | An introduction to the study of the financial lives of households in less developed countries, focusing on savings, credit, informal insurance, the expansion of microfinance, social learning, public finance/redistribution, and social networks. Prereq... |
| ECON126 | Economics of Health and Medical Care | Institutional, theoretical, and empirical analysis of the problems of health and medical care. Topics: demand for medical care and medical insurance; institutions in the health sector; economics of information applied to the market for health insuran... |
| ECON127 | Economics of Health Improvement in Developing Countries | Application of economic paradigms and empirical methods to health improvement in lower-income countries. Emphasis is on unifying analytic frameworks and evaluation of empirical evidence. How economic views differ from public health, medicine, and epi... |
| ECON131 | The Chinese Economy | This is a survey course of the Chinese economy with emphasis on understanding the process of economic reform, transition and development during the past 40 years. It will help students learn the different historical stages of institutional changes, d... |
| ECON132 | Persuasive Economic Storytelling | Modern economics has produced outstanding advancements in understanding and predicting economic behavior and phenomena. Despite these achievements, there is a huge gap between how economists and non-economists perceive certain aspects of the economy,... |
| ECON134 | Wealth of Nations | Why are there economic disparities across countries? Why did some countries grow steadily over the past 200 years while many others did not? What have been the consequences for the citizens of those countries? What has been the role of geography, cul... |
| ECON135 | Foundations of Finance | For graduate students and advanced undergraduates. This course teaches the foundations of finance. Topics include internal rate of return and net present value, Black-Scholes option pricing, portfolio diversification and the Capital Asset Pricing Mod... |
| ECON136 | Market Design | Use of economic theory and analysis to design allocation mechanisms and market institutions. Course focuses on three areas: the design of matching algorithms to solve assignment problems, with applications to school choice, entry-level labor markets,... |
| ECON137 | Decision Modeling and Information | Effective decision models consider a decision maker's alternatives, information and preferences. The construction of such models in single-party situations with emphasis on the role of information. The course then evolves to two-party decision situ... |
| ECON139D | Directed Reading | May be repeated for credit. |
| ECON140 | Introduction to Financial Economics | Modern portfolio theory and corporate finance. Topics: present value and discounting, interest rates and yield to maturity, various financial instruments including financial futures, mutual funds, the efficient market theory, basic asset pricing theo... |
| ECON141 | Financial Markets | This class provides an introduction to financial markets. We cover major financial instruments -- bonds, bank loans, equity and derivatives -- and how their prices are determined. What are the key financial institutions that lend, provide liquidity a... |
| ECON143 | Finance, Corporations, and Society | Both 'Free market capitalism' and democracy appear to be in crisis around the world. This interdisciplinary course, which draws from the Social Sciences, Business and Law, will help you gain a deeper understanding of the root causes of these intertwi... |
| ECON145 | Labor Economics | Analysis and description of labor markets. Determination of employment, hours of work, and wages. Wage differentials. Earnings inequality. Trade unions and worker co-operatives. Historical and international comparisons.. Prerequisites: ECON 51 (... |
| ECON146 | Economics of Education | How a decision to invest in education is affected by factors including ability and family background. Markets for elementary and secondary schooling; topics such as vouchers and charter schools, accountability, expenditure equalization among schools,... |
| ECON147 | The Economics of Labor Markets | This course will cover the economics of labor markets. Topics include: determinants of employment and unemployment; job creation and job destruction. The effects of technological change on the labor market. The effects of a universal basic income. Th... |
| ECON148 | Investors and the Social Responsibility of Business | Much of the world's economic activity is undertaken by corporations, the largest being more powerful than most nations. Given daunting societal challenges like climate change, inequality, and racial injustice, what objectives should corporations have... |
| ECON149 | The Modern Firm in Theory and Practice | Examines the empirics on the economics, management and strategy of organizations (e.g. firms). Topics include the organization of firms in US and internationally. Management practices around information systems, target setting and human resources. Fo... |
| ECON150 | Economic Policy Analysis | The relationship between microeconomic analysis and public policy making. How economic policy analysis is done and why political leaders regard it as useful but not definitive in making policy decisions. Economic rationales for policy interventions,... |
| ECON151 | Tackling Big Questions Using Social Data Science | Big data can help us provide answers to fundamental social questions, from poverty and social mobility, to climate change, migration, and the spread of disease. But making sense of data requires more than just statistical techniques: it calls for mod... |
| ECON152 | The Future of Finance | This 2-credit course will examine vast changes driven by innovation both from within traditional finance and from new ecosystems in fintech among others. Breathtaking advances in financial theory, big data, machine learning, artificial intelligence,... |
| ECON155 | Environmental Economics and Policy | Economic sources of environmental problems and alternative policies for dealing with them (technology standards, emissions taxes, and marketable pollution permits). Evaluation of policies addressing local air pollution, global climate change, and the... |
| ECON156 | Energy Markets and Policy | This is a course on how energy and environmental markets work, and the regulatory mechanisms that have been and can be used to achieve desired policy goals. Throughout the course students play the roles of electricity generators, electricity retaile... |
| ECON157 | Imperfect Competition | The interaction between firms and consumers in markets that fall outside the benchmark competitive model. How firms acquire and exploit market power. Game theory and information economics to analyze how firms interact strategically. Topics include mo... |
| ECON158 | Regulatory Economics | Economics 158 examines public policies for dealing with problems arising in markets in which competitive forces are weak. The focus is on monopolies, oligopolies, cartels, and other environments where market mechanisms are unlikely to produce outcome... |
| ECON159 | Economic, Legal, and Political Analysis of Climate-Change Policy | This course will advance students understanding of economic, legal, and political approaches to avoiding or managing the problem of global climate change. Theoretical contributions as well as empirical analyses will be considered. It will address eco... |
| ECON160 | Game Theory and Economic Applications | Introduction to game theory and its applications to economics. Topics: strategic and extensive form games, dominant strategies, Nash equilibrium, subgame-perfect equilibrium, and Bayesian equilibrium. The theory is applied to repeated games, oligopol... |
| ECON162 | Games Developing Nations Play | If, as economists argue, development can make everyone in a society better off, why do leaders fail to pursue policies that promote development? The course uses game theoretic approaches from both economics and political science to address this quest... |
| ECON163 | Solving Social Problems with Data | Introduces students to the interdisciplinary intersection of data science and the social sciences through an in-depth examination of contemporary social problems. Provides a foundational skill set for solving social problems with data including quant... |
| ECON165 | International Finance | This is a first course in open economy macroeconomics. The course's objective is to build the analytical foundation for understanding key macro issues in the world economy such as global capital flows, the behavior of exchange rates, currency and sov... |
| ECON166 | International Trade | Explaining patterns of trade among nations; characterizing the sources of comparative advantage in production and the prospect of gains from economies of scale. Enumerating and accounting for the net aggregate gains from trade, and identifying winner... |
| ECON177 | Empirical Environmental Economics | In this class, you will learn how to quantitatively evaluate major environmental policies such as pollution taxes and cap-and-trade systems, subsidies for electric vehicles and renewable energy, and energy efficiency and fuel economy regulations. We... |
| ECON178 | Behavioral Economics | The field of behavioral economics draws on insights from other disciplines, especially psychology, to enrich our understanding of economic behavior. In this course, we will discuss how psychological considerations can create behavioral patterns that... |
| ECON179 | Experimental Economics | Methods and major subject areas that have been addressed by laboratory experiments. Focus is on a series of experiments that build on one another. Topics include decision making, two player games, auctions, and market institutions. How experiments ar... |
| ECON17N | Energy, the Environment, and the Economy | Examines the intimate relationship between environmental quality and the production and consumption of energy. Assesses the economics efficiency and political economy implications of a number of current topics in energy and environmental economics. T... |
| ECON180 | Honors Game Theory | Rigorous introduction to game theory and applications. Topics include solution concepts for static and dynamic games of complete and incomplete information, signaling games, repeated games, bargaining, and elements of cooperative game theory. Applic... |
| ECON184 | Institutional Investment Management: Theory and Practice | This course provides an introduction to the theory and practice of institutional investment management, including asset allocation and manager selection across public and private equity, absolute return, real assets, and fixed income. The course is t... |
| ECON198 | Junior Honors Seminar | For juniors (advanced sophomores will be considered) who expect to write an honors thesis in Economics or Public Policy. Weekly sessions go through the process of selecting a research question, finding relevant bibliography, writing a literature revi... |
| ECON199D | Honors Thesis Research | In-depth study of an appropriate question and completion of a thesis of very high quality. Normally written under the direction of a member of the Department of Economics (or some closely related department). See description of honors program. Regist... |
| ECON1V | Principles of Economics | The course covers all of economics at a basic level. It stresses the key idea that economics is about making purposeful choice with limited resources and about people interacting with other people as they make these choices. Most of those interaction... |
| ECON202 | Microeconomics I | (Non-Economics graduate students register for 202N.) Open to advanced undergraduates with consent of instructors. Theory of the consumer and the implications of constrained maximization; uses of indirect utility and expenditure functions; theory of t... |
| ECON202N | Microeconomics I For Non-Economics PhDs students | Theory of the consumer and the implications of constrained maximization; uses of indirect utility and expenditure functions; theory of the producer, profit maximization, and cost minimization; behavior under uncertainty; partial equilibrium analysis... |
| ECON203 | Microeconomics II | (Non-Economics graduate students register for 203N.) Non-cooperative game theory including normal and extensive forms, solution concepts, games with incomplete information, and repeated games. Externalities and public goods. The theory of imperfect c... |
| ECON204 | Microeconomics III | Social Choice, including Arrow's theorem, the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem, and the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves mechanism. The theory of contracts, emphasizing contractual incompleteness and the problem of moral hazard. Incentive regulation. Competition w... |
| ECON206 | World Food Economy | The World Food Economy is a survey course that covers the economic and political dimensions of food production, consumption, and trade. The course focuses on food markets and food policy within a global context. It is comprised of three major section... |
| ECON209 | Economic, Legal, and Political Analysis of Climate-Change Policy | This course will advance students understanding of economic, legal, and political approaches to avoiding or managing the problem of global climate change. Theoretical contributions as well as empirical analyses will be considered. It will address eco... |
| ECON210 | Macroeconomics I | Dynamic programming applied to a variety of economic problems. These problems will be formulated in discrete or continuous time, with or without uncertainty, with a finite or infinite horizon. There will be weekly problem sets and a take-home final t... |
| ECON211 | Macroeconomics II | Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models using dynamic programming methods that are solved with MATLAB. Growth models (neoclassical, human capital, technical change) using optimal control theory. Limited enrollment. Prerequisite: ECON 210. |
| ECON212 | Macroeconomics III | Real business cycle and new Keynesian models: business cycle fluctuations, inflation dynamics, the effects of monetary and fiscal policy, and optimal policy. Models of heterogeneity: search models of the labor market; precautionary savings and genera... |
| ECON214 | Development Economics I | This course uses microeconomic theory and empirical analyses to understand barriers to human and economic development in lower income countries, as well as how public policies are formulated and their effectiveness at alleviating poverty. Topics incl... |
| ECON215 | Development Economics II | This is a course focusing on macro development research. It will cover dynamic models of growth and development, with a focus on migration; technological change; the functioning of financial markets; barriers to agricultural productivity; informal fi... |
| ECON216 | Development Economics III | This course focuses on savings, credit, informal insurance, the expansion of microfinance, social networks, social learning and technology adoption, public finance and firm organizations. Prerequisite: 202, 203, 204, 210, 211, 212, 270, 271, 272. |
| ECON21SI | Perspectives on Economics, Diversity, and Discrimination (PEDD) | In this student-initiated and student-facilitated reading group, we will read and discuss economics papers on racial and ethnic diversity and discrimination. We draw on papers from different economics literatures, including health, education, interge... |
| ECON220 | Political Economy I | Introduction to empirical and theoretical research in political economy. This course focuses on issues in democracies, while Political Economy II focuses on issues in non-democracies. Topics may include institutional foundations, social choice, elect... |
| ECON221 | Political Economy II | Continuation of ECON 220 / POLISCI 460A. Preparation for advanced research in political economy. This quarter will focus on topics related to culture, institutions, political and economic development, historical evolution, nondemocratic politics, con... |
| ECON222 | Political Development Economics | There is a growing awareness that many of the key challenges in fostering development in poor societies are political challenges. What can we do to encourage trade, cooperation and peace in environments riven with social and ethnic divisions? How do... |
| ECON226 | Topics in US and international economic history | The role of economic history as a distinctive approach to the study of economics, using illustrations from U.S. history and topics in international economics. Topics focused on the US include: historical and institutional foundations of US economic g... |
| ECON229 | Topics in Economic History | Topics in Economic History: covers topics in Economic History such as the industrial revolution, the demographic transition, the great divergence, the importance of institutions, the diffusion of knowledge, the causes and consequences of income inequ... |
| ECON233 | Advanced Macroeconomics I | Topics in the theory and empirics of economic growth. For PhD-level students. |
| ECON234 | Advanced Macroeconomics II | This is an advanced class in monetary economics. We cover empirical evidence, neoclassical models, New Keynesian models, monetary policy with heterogeneous agents, and price setting with heterogeneous firms. We also emphasize solution methods for mod... |
| ECON235 | Advanced Macroeconomics III | Current topics to prepare student for research in the field. Recent research in labor-market friction, reallocation, fluctuations, wage and price determination, innovation, and productivity growth. Research methods, presentations skills, and writing... |
| ECON236 | Financial Economics I | This course will cover research topics at the boundary between macroeconomics and finance. Topics may include the study of macroeconomic models with financial frictions, conventional and unconventional monetary policy, its transmission mechanism and... |
| ECON237 | Heterogeneity in Macroeconomics | The goal of this course is to introduce students to frontier research in quantitative macroeconomics and finance with heterogeneous agents. We study models with imperfect financial markets and/or search frictions. We emphasize theory and numerical me... |
| ECON239D | Directed Reading | May be repeated for credit. |
| ECON241 | Public Economics I | Design of tax systems, transfers intended to alleviate poverty, the effect of taxes on earnings, fees intended to internalize externalities like pollution, school finance and other forms of fiscal federalism, local public goods such as schools, polic... |
| ECON242 | Public Economics II | The first part of the course concerns inequality and the design of social insurance. We also explore questions in the intersection of public and family economics such as the unit of taxation, and the interaction between social insurance and intra-fam... |
| ECON243 | Public Economics III | The first part of the course concerns inequality and the design of social insurance. We also explore questions in the intersection of public and family economics such as the unit of taxation, and the interaction between social insurance and intra-fam... |
| ECON244 | Market Failures and Public Policy | Market failures are the classic justification for government intervention in private markets. This course will focus on a small number of economically important markets where market failures are thought to be important: credit, health care, innovati... |
| ECON245 | Economics of Gender | The class will cover advances in the study of gender from Behavioral, Experimental and Labor Economics, e.g. traits in which women and men differ and what impact this may have for education and labor market outcomes. It will also examine gender diffe... |
| ECON246 | Labor Economics I | Topics in current applied microeconomic research including intertemporal labor supply models, public policy, program evaluation, job search, migration, consumption behavior, the economics of the family, the technology of skill formation, discriminati... |
| ECON247 | Labor Economics II | Recent topics in applied micro, focusing on papers from top journals (QJE, AER, JPE, Econometrica and REStud) over the last ten years. Broad overview of current topic and techniques in applied-micro research - one student nicknamed this 'the greatest... |
| ECON248 | Labor Economics III | Topics in labor economics. Classes of models include: job search, local labor markets, earnings dynamics, migration, etc. The goal is to integrate theoretical discussions with empirical methodologies used in labor economics. Prerequisites: assumes fi... |
| ECON249 | Topics in Health Economics I | Course will cover various topics in health economics, from theoretical and empirical perspectives. Topics will include public financing and public policy in health care and health insurance; demand and supply of health insurance and healthcare; physi... |
| ECON250 | Environmental Economics | Theoretical and empirical analysis of sources of and solutions to environmental problems, with application to local pollution challenges and global environmental issues such as climate change. Topics include: analysis of market failure, choice of env... |
| ECON251 | Natural Resource and Energy Economics | Economic theory and empirical analysis of non-renewable and renewable natural resources, with considerable attention to energy provision and use. Topics include: exhaustible resources; renewable resources; and energy industry market structure, pricin... |
| ECON252 | The Future of Finance | This 2-credit course will examine vast changes driven by innovation both from within traditional finance and from new ecosystems in fintech among others. Breathtaking advances in financial theory, big data, machine learning, artificial intelligence,... |
| ECON253 | Energy Markets: Theory and Evidence from Latin America | What theory and practice around the world and in Latin America tell us about the design of energy markets; how distributional impacts and enforcement capabilities affect their implementation. Topics include: pricing in wholesale electricity markets,... |
| ECON254 | Economics of Digitization | Examines the transformation of the economy enabled by digital technologies, including AI, networks, and the digitization of information, goods and services. Topics include the economics of information, two-sided networks and platforms, power laws, in... |
| ECON255 | Economics of Communication | This course will cover theoretical and empirical work on the provision of information in markets. Likely topics include: theory of strategic communication; persuasion; media; advertising and brands; financial analysis and disclosure; political commun... |
| ECON256 | Energy Markets and Policy | This is a course on how energy and environmental markets work, and the regulatory mechanisms that have been and can be used to achieve desired policy goals. Throughout the course students play the roles of electricity generators, electricity retaile... |
| ECON257 | Industrial Organization 1 | Theoretical and empirical analyses of the determinants of market structure; firm behavior and market efficiency in oligopolies; price discrimination; price dispersion and consumer search; differentiated products; the role of information in markets, i... |
| ECON258 | Industrial Organization IIA | Topics may include theoretical and empirical analysis of bargaining, dynamic models of entry and investment, models of household borrowing, models of markets with asymmetric information, advertising, brands, and markets for information, and research... |
| ECON25N | Public Policy and Personal Finance | The seminar will provide an introduction and discussion of the impact of public policy on personal finance. Voters regularly rate the economy as one of the most important factors shaping their political views and most of those opinions are focused on... |
| ECON260 | Industrial Organization III | Course combines individual meetings and student presentations, with an aim of initiating dissertation research in industrial organization. Prerequisites: ECON 257, ECON 258. Enrollment by non-Econ PhD students requires instructors' consent. |
| ECON261 | The Engineering Economics of Electricity Markets | This course presents the power system engineering and economic concepts necessary to understand the costs and benefits of transitioning to a low carbon electricity supply industry. The technical characteristics of generation units and transmission an... |
| ECON266 | International Trade I | The first part of this course covers Ricardian, factor-proportions and monopolistic-competition models of international trade. The second part of the course covers commercial policy, with an emphasis on the economics of trade agreements. Students are... |
| ECON267 | International Trade II | The course will cover quantitative and empirical work in trade, trade policy, and related subjects. |
| ECON268 | International Finance and Exchange Rates | Benchmark open economy models. Solution methods for macroeconomic models. Analysis and evaluation of quantitative macroeconomic models. Main applications: Sovereign debt and default; Financial crises and sudden stops; Hedging, interest parity relatio... |
| ECON269 | International Finance and Exchange Rates II | This is the second half of the international finance sequence. Part I: intertemporal approach to the current account, international real business cycle models, international risk-sharing, gains from financial integration, global imbalances, and excha... |
| ECON270 | Intermediate Econometrics I | Probability, random variables, and distributions; large sample theory; theory of estimation and hypothesis testing. Limited enrollment. Prerequisites: math and probability at the level of Chapter 2, Paul G. Hoel, Introduction to Mathematical Statisti... |
| ECON271 | Intermediate Econometrics II | Second course in the PhD sequence in econometrics at the Economics Department (as Econ 271) and at the GSB (as MGTECON 604). This course presents modern econometric methods with a focus on regression. Among the topics covered are: linear regression a... |
| ECON272 | Intermediate Econometrics III: Methods for Applied Econometrics | Methods for modern causal inference, including identification, matching methods, instrumental variables, regression discontinuity designs, difference in differences, synthetic control methods. Prerequisites: Econ 271 or permission of instructor. |
| ECON273 | Advanced Econometrics I | Possible topics: parametric asymptotic theory. M and Z estimators. General large sample results for maximum likelihood; nonlinear least squares; and nonlinear instrumental variables estimators including the generalized method of moments estimator und... |
| ECON274 | Advanced Econometrics II | (Formerly 273B); Possible topics: nonparametric density estimation and regression analysis; sieve approximation; contiguity; convergence of experiments; cross validation; indirect inference; resampling methods: bootstrap and subsampling; quantile reg... |
| ECON275 | Economics-Based Econometrics | This course presents methods for constructing econometric specifications and systems directly based on economic models. One such approach formulates stochastic economic models that give rise to empirically implementable econometric models. The disc... |
| ECON278 | Behavioral and Experimental Economics I | This is the first part of a three course sequence (along with Econ 279 & 280-formerly 277) on behavioral and experimental economics. The sequence has two main objectives: 1) examines theories and evidence related to the psychology of economic decisi... |
| ECON279 | Behavioral and Experimental Economics II | This is part of a three course sequence (along with Econ 278 & 280-formerly 277) on behavioral and experimental economics. The sequence has two main objectives: 1) examines theories and evidence related to the psychology of economic decision making,... |
| ECON280 | Behavioral and Experimental Economics III | Economics 280 (formerly ECON 277) is a course primarily directed at graduate students in the Economics department writing dissertations with behavioral or experimental components. Economics 280 is the third part of a three course sequence (along with... |
| ECON281 | Designing Experiments for Impact | This is a team-based course where students will work on a project to design and carry out an experiment intended to drive social impact in collaboration with a partner organization. The first few weeks will include lectures, hands-on tutorials, and l... |
| ECON282 | Contracts, Information, and Incentives | Basic theories and recent developments in mechanism design and the theory of contracts. Topics include: hidden characteristics and hidden action models with one and many agents, design of mechanisms and markets with limited communication, long-term r... |
| ECON283 | Theory and Practice of Auction Market Design | This class will focus on several topics in auction market design and related areas. It is an advanced course, intended as a sequel to the more basic market/mechanism/auction design courses offered at the Economics department and the GSB. Students are... |
| ECON284 | Simplicity and Complexity in Economic Theory | Technology has enabled the emergence of economic systems of formerly inconceivable complexity. Nevertheless, some technology-related economic problems are so complex that either supercomputers cannot solve them in a reasonable time, or they are too c... |
| ECON285 | Matching and Market Design | This is an introduction to market design, intended mainly for second year PhD students in economics (but also open to other graduate students from around the university and to undergrads who have taken undergrad market design). It will emphasize the... |
| ECON286 | Game Theory and Economic Applications | Aims to provide a solid basis in game-theoretic tools and concepts, both for theorists and for students focusing in other fields. Technical material will include solution concepts and refinements, potential games, supermodular games, repeated games,... |
| ECON287 | Topics in Market Design | Primarily for doctoral students. Focus on quantitative models dealing with sustainability and related to operations management. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit. |
| ECON289 | Advanced Topics in Game Theory and Information Economics | Topics course covering a variety of game theory topics with emphasis on market design, such as matching theory and auction theory. Final paper required. Prerequisites: ECON 285 or equivalent. ECON 283 recommended. |
| ECON290 | Multiperson Decision Theory | Students and faculty review and present recent research papers on basic theories and economic applications of decision theory, game theory and mechanism design. Applications include market design and analyses of incentives and strategic behavior in m... |
| ECON291 | Social and Economic Networks | Synthesis of research on social and economic networks by sociologists, economists, computer scientists, physicists, and mathematicians, with an emphasis on modeling. Includes methods for describing and measuring networks, empirical observations abou... |
| ECON292 | Quantitative Methods for Empirical Research | This is an advanced course on quantitative methods for empirical research. Students are expected to have taken a course in linear models before. In this course I will discuss modern econometric methods for nonlinear models, including maximum likeliho... |
| ECON293 | Machine Learning and Causal Inference | This course will cover statistical methods based on the machine learning literature that can be used for causal inference. In economics and the social sciences more broadly, empirical analyses typically estimate the effects of counterfactual policies... |
| ECON294 | Continuous-time Methods in Economics and Finance | Continuous-time methods can, in many cases, lead to more powerful models to understand economic phenomena. The Black-Scholes option-pricing formula is significantly more tractable than discrete- time methods of option pricing based on binomial trees.... |
| ECON295 | The AI Awakening: Implications for the Economy and Society | Recent advances in machine learning and related technologies have radically increased the capabilities of AI. At the same time, our economic institutions, organizations and skills are changing slowly, if at all. In this growing gap lie many of our... |
| ECON299 | Practical Training | Students obtain employment in a relevant research or industrial activity to enhance their professional experience consistent with their degree programs. At the start of the quarter, students must submit a one page statement showing the relevance of t... |
| ECON300 | Third-Year Seminar | Restricted to Economics Ph.D. students. Students present current research. May be repeated for credit. |
| ECON310 | Macroeconomic Workshop | No Description Set |
| ECON315 | Development Workshop | No Description Set |
| ECON325 | Economic History Workshop | May be repeated for credit. |
| ECON335 | Experimental/Behavioral Seminar | Field seminar in experimental and behavioral economics. |
| ECON341 | Public Economics and Environmental Economics Seminar | Issues in measuring and evaluating the economic performance of government tax, expenditure, debt, and regulatory policies; their effects on levels and distribution of income, wealth, and environmental quality; alternative policies and methods of eval... |
| ECON345 | Labor Economics Seminar | No Description Set |
| ECON354 | Law and Economics Seminar | This seminar will examine current research by lawyers and economists on a variety of topics in law and economics. Several sessions of the seminar will consist of an invited speaker, usually from another university, who will discuss his or her current... |
| ECON355 | Industrial Organization Workshop | Current research in the field by visitors, presentations by students, and discussion of recent papers. Students write an original research paper, make a formal presentation, and lead a structured discussion. |
| ECON365 | International Trade Workshop | No Description Set |
| ECON370 | Econometrics Workshop | No Description Set |
| ECON391 | Microeconomic Theory Seminar | No Description Set |
| ECON4 | Democracy Matters | Should the U.S. close its border to immigrants? What are the ramifications of income inequality? How has COVID-19 changed life as we know it? Why are Americans so politically polarized? How can we address racial injustice? As the 2020 election appr... |
| ECON400 | Ph.D. Dissertation | Pre-TGR dissertation research.(Staff) |
| ECON41 | Pasta, Soccer, and Opera: An Intro to Applied Micro and Data Analysis | This course will provide an introduction to applied microeconomics and data analysis. The course material will derive from academic journal articles on a variety of fun topics, such as penalty kicks in soccer, copyright law for opera, and the economi... |
| ECON43 | Introduction to Financial Decision-Making | The purpose of the class is for you to obtain greater comfort making the major financial decisions your life journey will require. Illustrative examples, case studies, historical and statistical evidence, and some simple analytical tools will be pres... |
| ECON44 | The Modern Financial System | The purpose of the class is to introduce you to the modern financial system. What are the major financial instruments -- bonds, bank loans and also equity - and how are their prices determined. What are the key financial institutions that lend, provi... |
| ECON46 | Networks and Human Behavior | Two threads are interwoven: why social and economic networks have special features, and how those features shape power, opinions, opportunities, and behaviors. Some of the topics included are: the different ways in which a person's position in a ne... |
| ECON47 | Media Markets and Social Good | This class will apply tools from economics and related social sciences to study the functioning of media markets and their impact on society. The guiding question will be: when and how do media best serve the social good? Topics will include the econ... |
| ECON48 | Law and Economics of Biomedical Innovation | Why don't we have an HIV vaccine, or a cure for Alzheimer's disease? Why weren't we better prepared for a pandemic? A variety of evidence suggests market incentives - such as provided by policies ranging from patent law to public health insurance - a... |
| ECON50 | Economic Analysis I | Individual consumer and firm behavior under perfect competition. The role of markets and prices in a decentralized economy. Monopoly in partial equilibrium. Economic tools developed from multivariable calculus using partial differentiation and techni... |
| ECON51 | Economic Analysis II | Neoclassical analysis of general equilibrium, welfare economics, imperfect competition, externalities and public goods, risk and uncertainty, game theory, adverse selection, and moral hazard. Multivariate calculus is used. Prerequisite: ECON 50. |
| ECON52 | Economic Analysis III | Long-run economic growth and short-run economic fluctuations. Focus on the macroeconomic tools of government: fiscal policy (spending and taxes) and monetary policy, and their effects on growth, employment, and inflation. Prerequisites: ECON 50. |
| ECON801 | TGR Project | No Description Set |
| ECON802 | TGR Dissertation | No Description Set |