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4.00 Credits
This course examines health issues in developing countries from the standpoint of applied microeconomic research. Specific topics include: identifying the effect of health on growth and development and identifying the causal relationships between income, poverty, and health. We will discuss structural problems in delivery and provider quality, the challenges of healthcare financing and health insurance expansions, and the tension between adoping "high-tech" care while delivering basic care to others.
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4.00 Credits
Studies the relationship between economic growth, poverty, and income distribution. Discusses how globalization affects poverty and inequality. Studies the main theories of economic growth and the main potential sources of economic development, from physical capital accumulation, to education, to technology, to the role of government. Discusses various global issues such as public global health (e.g. the impact of malaria and AIDS on Africa), corruption and institutions, natural resources, the environment, international donor institutions, and population growth.
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4.00 Credits
This course analyzes what role the government should play in a market economy. It covers topics such as tax and welfare policy, unemployment insurance, environmental protection, education policy, social security, and the implications of behavioral economics for public policy. The course emphasizes recent empirical and theoretical research on policy issues and will teach students how to conduct such studies.
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4.00 Credits
Analyzes major issues in American economic policy including taxation, Social Security, health care reform, budget policy, monetary and fiscal policy, and exchange rate management. Current economic issues and policy options discussed in detail and in the context of current academic thinking.
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4.00 Credits
Topics include the political economy of economic growth, including the roles of democracy and legal institutions; inflation, monetary policy, and fiscal policy; interplay between religion and political economy; and analyses of economic and monetary unions.
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4.00 Credits
The aim of the course is to give students familiarity with a broad range of European policy issues: integration of markets (for goods, services, and labor), monetary union (ECB) and its consequences for fiscal policy, financial sector regulation as well as supervision. It is offered for students who would like to employ the tools they have learned in principles of economics and introductory micro and macro courses on real world cases. This implies to write and present a paper (mandatory writing requirement).
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4.00 Credits
Examines fiscal policy, monetary policy,exchange rate policy, and financial regulation. Emphasizes both short-term stabilization goals and longer-term policy objectives. Considerable attention to recent policy debates surrounding the financial crisis, reform of the financial system, Euro and Europe's debt crisis, long-run US fiscal outlook, global imbalances, China's exchange rate, and Japan's lost decade. While sophisticated economic reasoning will be involved, purely mathematical technicalities will be kept to a minimum.
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4.00 Credits
This course assesses the future of the tri-polar world economy - Asia, Europe, and North America. The course analyzes the resurgence of the US economic growth, the emergence of asset pricing bubbles, and the ensuing financial and economic crisis. We will discuss the sources of Asian growth miracles and the convergence and subsequent divergence of Europe and North America. What growth rate is sustainable and who will lead? What are the forces that threaten long-term prosperity?
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4.00 Credits
This is an intermediate level international finance and macroeconomics course that uses a mix of theoretical, empirical and policy frameworks to analyze topical problems in international finance. The topics include exchange rate determination, currency interventions, monetary policy coordination, capital flows and currency crises.
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4.00 Credits
Analyzes the causes and consequences of international trade and investment. Focuses on the interplay of economic theory and empirical descriptions of foreign trade and direct investment patterns.
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