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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course provides a microeconomic examination of the role of government in the economy. Topics will include the theory and measurement of excess burden, optimal tax theory, the analysis of tax incidence, and an examination of the effects of taxation on behavior.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Asset pricing in competitive markets where traders have homogeneous information. Empirical tests of asset-pricing models and associated "anomalies" are also surveyed. Measures of riskiness and risk aversion, atemporal asset-pricing models, dynamic portfolio choice, option pricing and the term structure of interest rates, corporate investment and financing decisions, and taxation are studied.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Review of probability and stochastic processes, stochastic integrals, reduction to martingale gains from trade, change of variable (Ito's lemma, local time, generalized Ito's formula, Girsanov's theorem), stochastic differential equations, the Black-Scholes model, the term-structure of interest rates, equilibrium assest pricing, an introduction to the optimal control of diffusions and some applications.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
An examination of the economics of the labor market, especially the forces determining the supply of and demand for labor, the level of unemployment, labor mobility, the structure of relative wages, and the general level of wages.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The course surveys both the theoretical literature and the relevant empirical methods and results in selected current research topics in labor economics.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Methods for empirical and theoretical analysis of markets composed of productive enterprises and their customers are studied. Analyses are applied to modern market structures and practices, and public policy towards them. Topics include the roles of technology and information, the structure of firms, modes of interfirm competition, determination of price, quality, and R & D investment, and criteria for government intervention.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The determinants of foreign trade: (1) inter-country differences of factor endowments and technologies and (2) scale economics and imperfect competition are studied. Dynamic comparative advantage; innovation and growth; factor movements and multinational corporations; gains from trade; tariffs and quantitative restrictions on trade and their role in dealing with market failures and oligopolies; the political economy of trade policy; international negotiations on trade policy; and economic integration are studied as well.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A continuation of ECO 551, with emphasis on current research issues. Topics vary from year to year.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This sequence (with ECO 554) develops core models of international finance and open-economy macroeconomics, and surveys selected current research topics in the field. Topics treated in the first semester include: the intertemporal approach to the current account; the determination of real exchange rates, and purchasing power parity; international CAPM and uncovered interest rate parity; sovereign debt crisis; speculative attacks and liquidity crises; international risk sharing and capital flows, home bias, and the stability of the international financial system.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Advanced topics in monetary economics, with an emphasis on open economies. Money demand and currency substitution; price-level and exchange-rate determination under alternative monetary policy rules; real effects of monetary disturbances; exchange-rate policy and macroeconomic stability; welfare consequences of inflation and exchange-rate stabilization; advantages and disadvantages of monetary union.
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