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3.00 Credits
PQ: ECON 20300 and 21000. This course introduces models in topics that include household production, marriage, fertility, religion, social markets, addiction, self-control, information cascades, and discrimination. Readings comprise empirical papers that test these models. This course is offered only in even numbered years. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: ECON 20300 and STAT 22000; and prior or concurrent registration in ECON 21000. This course develops the tools to quantify the risk and return of financial instruments. These are applied to standard financial problems faced by firms and investors. Topics include arbitrage pricing, the capital asset pricing model, and the theory of efficient markets and option pricing. W. Fuchs. Autumn.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: ECON 20100 and STAT 23400. This course focuses on the description, pricing, and hedging of basic derivative claims on financial assets. We study the characteristics, uses, and payoffs of a variety of contracts where the underlying claims include commodities, foreign currencies, bonds, stocks, or stock indices. We examine contracts such as options, swaps, and futures contracts. We use a unified approach (the technique of portfolio replication) to study pricing of these claims. Students also gain an understanding of strategies for hedging of the risks inherent in holding these derivative claims. F. Alvarez. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: ECON 20200 and 21000. This course examines current issues in the economics of developing countries. The focus is on macroeconomic models of economic growth and technological change. We also cover some microeconomic studies of land, labor, and credit markets in less-developed countries. K. Basu. Autumn.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: ECON 20300. This course focuses on the application of economic analysis to economic policy issues encountered in East Asia. Topics include sources of economic growth, commercial policy, regional economic integration, inflation and stabilization, fiscal deficits, the choice of an exchange rate regime, and debt problems. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: ECON 20300. This course examines current issues in the economies of Latin America. Topics include sources of economic growth, commercial policy, regional economic integration, inflation and stabilization, fiscal deficits, the choice of an exchange rate regime, and debt problems. A. Menendez. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: ECON 20300 or consent of instructor. This course examines the role of the government in the U.S. economy. We consider the efficiency and equity arguments for government intervention and analyze empirical evidence on the effects of tax and expenditure policy on economic outcomes. Topics include government-provided goods (with a focus on education), social insurance programs, government provision of health insurance, welfare programs, and tax policy. The effects of potential future policy changes (e.g., vouchers in K C12 education, individual accounts for Social Security) are also discussed. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: ECON 20100. This course applies theoretical and empirical economic tools to environmental issues. We discuss broad concepts such as externalities, public goods, property rights, market failure, and social cost-benefit analysis. These concepts are applied to areas that include nonrenewable resources, air and water pollution, solid waste management, and hazardous substances. We emphasize analyzing the optimal role for public policy. G. Tolley, S. Shaikh. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: ECON 20900, ECON 21000, ECON 26500, or ENST 26500. This course applies theoretical and empirical economic tools to a number of environmental issues. We discuss broad concepts that include externalities, public goods, property rights, market failure, and benefit-cost analysis. These concepts are applied to a number of areas that include nonrenewable resources, air and water pollution, solid waste management, and hazardous substances. We emphasize analyzing the optimal role for public policy. J. List. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: ECON 20100. This course covers tools needed to analyze urban economics and address urban policy problems. Topics include a basic model of residential location and rents; income, amenities, and neighborhoods; homelessness and urban poverty; decisions on housing purchase versus rental (e.g., housing taxation, housing finance, landlord monitoring); models of commuting mode choice and congestion and transportation pricing and policy; urban growth; and Third World cities. G. Tolley, J. Felkner. Spring.
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