printer friendly pageECON 214: Development Economics I
This course is the first of a three-course graduate sequence on the economic issues of less developed countries. Topics include institutions and governance; agricultural productivity; productivity effects of health; private and social returns to education; household behavior.nPrerequisites: 202 or 202N, 270.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2-5
Instructors:
Dupas, P. (PI)
ECON 215: Development Economics II
This is a course focusing on macro development research. It will cover dynamic models of growth and development, with a focus on migration; technological change; the functioning of financial markets; and barriers to agricultural productivity in less developed countries. Prerequisites: 202 or 202N, 270.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2-5
Instructors:
Morten, M. (PI)
ECON 216: Development Economics III
This course focuses on savings, credit, informal insurance, the expansion of microfinance, social networks, social learning and technology adoption, public finance and firm organizations. Prerequisite: 202, 203, 204, 210, 211, 212, 270, 271, 272.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-5
Instructors:
Chandrasekhar, A. (PI)
ECON 217: Topics in International Macroeconomics: Theory and Evidence for Latin America:
Banking systems, interest rates, regulatory policies, and the productivity of capital in developing countries. Controlling inflation: fiscal and monetary policies for macroeconomic stability. Currency crises, exchange rates, and the liberalization of foreign trade. Further applications to transitional socialist economies in Asia and E. Europe.
Last offered: Winter 2013
ECON 220: Political Economy I (POLISCI 311E)
Theoretical models of political economy. Potential topics include: basic social choice theory, democracy, electoral competition, political accountability, legislative bargaining, lobbying, corruption, autocratic politics, democratization, conflict and arms races, and institutional change. Attention to economics implications, including taxation, redistribution, and public goods. Prerequisite: 203 or permission of instructors.
Last offered: Spring 2016
ECON 225: Economics of Technology and Innovation
Graduate seminar on current research on the economics of innovation. Topics include the design of optimal patent policies, copyright polices, and the role of human capital (science, immigration, skill-biased technical change). Emphasis on empirical analyses of historical and contemporary data.
Last offered: Winter 2015
ECON 226: U.S. Economic History
The role of economic history as a distinctive approach to the study of economics, using illustrations from U.S. history. Topics: historical and institutional foundations of the U.S. rise to world economic preeminence; economic causes and consequences of slavery; the American national system of technology; the Great Depression of the 30s; national economic performance in a globalizing world. Prerequisite:
ECON 51 and
ECON 52. Intended for graduate students.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-5
Instructors:
Wright, G. (PI)
ECON 227: European Economic History
European economic history from middle ages to the twentieth century. Topics: competing hypotheses in explaining long term trends in economic growth and cross-country differences in long-term economic growth; formation, function, and persistence of institutions and organizations; the role of institutions and organizations (e.g. apprenticeship, servitude, partnerships, cooperatives, social networks, share cropping, and communes) as solutions to contractual problems; the economics of migration; the changing economic role of the family. Use of economic theory in guiding hypothesis testing, as well as construction of new datasets and the execution of empirical analysis.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2-5
Instructors:
Abramitzky, R. (PI)
ECON 228: Institutions and Organizations in Historical Perspective
The course integrates historical analysis and economic theory in evaluating the nature and role of institutions in economic and political outcomes. The motivating question is the factors determining economic and political developments in the long run and the historical focus is on the Middle East, Europe, and China over the last millennium. The course first examines various approaches for the study of institutions, their nature and dynamics and then focuses on detailed discussions of frontier research papers.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2-5
Instructors:
Greif, A. (PI)
ECON 233: Advanced Macroeconomics I
Topics in the theory and empirics of economic growth. For PhD-level students.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2-5
Instructors:
Jones, C. (PI)
;
Klenow, P. (SI)
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