|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
3.00 Credits
09W, 10W: 10A, 2A This seminar considers microeconomic aspects of the causes and consequences of extreme poverty in the developing world. Recent research on topics such as child labor, credit, education, environmental degradation, fertility, gender discrimination, health, HIV/AIDs, insurance, malnutrition, social capital, and technology adoption will be considered in depth. Topics vary from year to year. Students are required to write a major research paper. Prerequisites: Economics 20, 21, and 24. Dist: SOC or INT; WCult: NW. Edmonds.
-
3.00 Credits
09W, 10W: 10A This course deals with selected topics in industrial organization and with public policies designed to deal with problems of monopoly and competition. Students are required to write a major paper. The topic for the student paper changes regularly, but an econometric analysis is always required. Examples of the student papers include time-series analysis of stock prices to evaluate the competitive consequences of horizontal mergers challenged under Section 7 of the Clayton Act and Probit analysis to explore the determinants of university participation in research joint ventures filed under the National Cooperative Research and Production Act. Prerequisites: Economics 20, 21 and 25. Dist: SOC. Scott.
-
3.00 Credits
09W: 11, 1209S: 10, 11, 1210W: 11, 1210S: 10, 11, 12 A seminar course covering in depth such selected topics as the following: the theory of financial institutions; banking panics; the excess variability of asset prices; finance constraints and capital market imperfections; the theory of monetary policy; inflation and financial markets; debt and deficits. Will require writing a major paper. Prerequisites: Economics 20, 22, and 36. Dist: SOC. Sacerdote, Zitzewitz.
-
3.00 Credits
09S, 10S: 10 This course will, through the use of theoretical and statistical tools, explore major policy problems such as minimum wage and hours standards; pension regulation; public employment and training programs; and unemployment insurance. Topics will vary from year to year. Will require writing a major paper. Prerequisites: Economics 20 and 27. Dist: SOC. Anderson.
-
3.00 Credits
09W, 10W: 10A, 2A This seminar provides an in-depth examination of selected topics in public economics. Topics vary from year to year, but may include the analyses of the economic effects of social insurance programs, such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other public assistance; the economics of health and aging; the effects of taxation on household and corporate financial behavior; the effects of taxation on labor supply, saving, and investment decisions; the economics of public goods and externalities; optimal taxation; and, theories of government structure and decision making at the federal, state, and local levels. Will require writing a major paper. Prerequisites: Economics 20, 21 and 28. Dist: SOC. Cascio.
-
3.00 Credits
09W: 9, 1009S: 10A, 2A10W: 9, 1010S: 10A, 2A This seminar will cover selected topics in international trade and finance beyond those covered in Economics 29 and 39. Offerings in the next few years are expected to include current research on (1) financial crises in emerging markets, (2) the role of trade, open capital markets, and financial development on growth in developing countries, (3) the determinants and consequences of foreign direct investment, (4) the impact of the multilateral trade agreements on world trade, and (5) issues related to globalization. Will require writing a major paper. Prerequisites: Economics 20, 21, 22, 29 and 39. Dist: SOC or INT. Marion, Pavcnik.
-
3.00 Credits
09W, 10W: 10
-
3.00 Credits
Not offered in 2008-2009; may be offered in 2009-2010
-
3.00 Credits
Consult special listings
-
3.00 Credits
From time to time special seminars or experimental courses will be offered in the 70-79 series. Examples of titles of courses that might be offered are: Economic History of the United States; Economics of Education; Mathematical Economics; History of Economic Thought.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2025 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|