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3.00 Credits
Selected topics of current research interest in macroeconomics. Subject matter to vary from year to year.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an empirically-based examination of exchange rate and balance-of-payments issues and the debt problem.
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3.00 Credits
A general introduction to the field of development economics, with concentration initially on questions of a macrostrategic nature. The final topic is macroanalysis of country development programs, examining country studies, and macro models.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to modern macroeconomic growth theory. We start by reviewing the stylized facts, the workhorse Solow growth model, and some growth accounting. The second part focuses on the neoclassical growth model, endogenous growth theory, models of product variety, and Schumpeterian (quality ladder) models. Finally, we review recent contributions to the growth literature, which are near or at the research frontier in this field.
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3.00 Credits
This course will provide a survey of theoretical and empirical research in labor economics. Topics typically include compensating differentials, human capital accumulation (including education, experience, and tenure), incentive contracts, job matching, job search, worker mobility, and discrimination. Students will be responsible for analyzing research and presenting it to the class.
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3.00 Credits
This course employs both theoretical and econometric analysis to examine labor markets. Topics typically include dynamic labor supply and labor demand, unemployment, efficiency wages, technical change, and inequality. The course will also look at how ideas in labor economics can be used to explore issues in demography, health, development, and family and gender economics. Students will be responsible for analyzing research and presenting it to the class. Additional emphasis will be given to the development of original research in labor economics.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines both theoretical and empirical analysis of government expenditures. Topics typically include the provision of public goods, education, fiscal federalism, and health care policy. The course will also provide a survey of data, methods, and policies commonly employed in the empirical public finance literature. Students will be responsible for analyzing research and presenting it to the class.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of the theory and evidence on tax and expenditure policy. Topics typically include tax incidence, optimal tax theory, the effect of taxation on labor supply and savings, redistribution, transfer programs, and social insurance. Students will be responsible for analyzing research and presenting it to the class. Additional emphasis will be given to the development of original research in public economics.
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1.00 Credits
A forum for students to present their current research in economic theory, history of economic thought, and methodology, and to discuss various papers and research of interest to the participants.
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3.00 Credits
This is a course is intended to provide students with insights into current research topics, to help them learn to formulate their own research topics, to stimulate them to engage in independent research, and to offer a forum in which they can learn to present their own research and discuss research presented by others.
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