printer friendly pageIPS 202: Topics in International Macroeconomics
Topics: standard theories of open economy macroeconomics, exchange rate regimes, causes and consequences of current account imbalances, the economics of monetary unification and the European Monetary Union, recent financial and currency crises, the International Monetary Fund and the reform of the international financial architecture.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Aturupane, C. (PI)
IPS 203: Issues in International Economics
Topics in international trade and international trade policy: trade, growth and poverty, regionalism versus multilateralism, the political economy of trade policy, trade and labor, trade and the environment, and trade policies for developing economies. Prerequisite:
ECON 165,
ECON 166.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Aturupane, C. (PI)
IPS 204A: Microeconomics (PUBLPOL 301A)
Microeconomic concepts relevant to decision making. Topics include: competitive market clearing, price discrimination; general equilibrium; risk aversion and sharing, capital market theory, Nash equilibrium; welfare analysis; public choice; externalities and public goods; hidden information and market signaling; moral hazard and incentives; auction theory; game theory; oligopoly; reputation and credibility. Prerequisites:
ECON 50 and
MATH 51 or equiv.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Bulow, J. (PI)
IPS 204B: Cost-Benefit Analysis and Evaluation (PUBLPOL 301B)
Relationship between microeconomic analysis and public policy making. Economic rationales for policy interventions. Economic models of politics and application to policy making. Relationship of income distribution to policy choice. Welfare evaluation of public and private decisions. Education policy, social security, and health care. Prerequisite:
PUBLPOL 301A or
ECON 51.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Lim, C. (PI)
IPS 205A: Foundations Of Statistical Inference (PUBLPOL 303A)
(Same as
LAW 362.) Statistical background and introduction to regression. Topics include hypothesis testing, linear regression, nearest-neighbors regression, and other statistical concepts. Hands-on empirical analysis using popular statistical packages. Goal is to analyze empirical studies, conduct empirical research, and to crossexamine or work with statistical experts.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Strnad, J. (PI)
IPS 205B: Econometrics (PUBLPOL 303B)
(Same as
LAW 366.) Descriptive statistics. Regression analysis. Hypothesis testing. Analysis of variance. Heteroskedasticity, serial correlation, errors in variables, simultaneous equations. The construction and use of models for analyzing economic and social phenomena. Bayesian analysis. Univariate and bivariate analysis. Simple regression model. Multiple regression model. Inference and heteroskedasticity. Linear probability model. Instrumental variables. Maximum likelihood methods. Measurement of social and political attitudes and ideologies. Statistical analysis of large data sets.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Strnad, J. (PI)
IPS 206A: Politics and Collective Action (POLISCI 331S, PUBLPOL 304A)
Classic theories for why collective action problems occur and how they can be solved. Politics of aggregating individual decisions into collective action, including voting, social protest, and competing goals and tactics of officials, bureaucrats, interest groups, and other stakeholders. Economic, distributive, and moral frameworks for evaluating collective action processes and outcomes. Applications to real-world policy problems involving collective action.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Hanson, W. (PI)
IPS 207: Governance, Corruption, and Development
The role of governance in the growth and development experience across countries emphasizing the economies of corruption. The concept and measurement of governance. Theory and evidence on the impact of corruption on growth and development outcomes, including investment, international trade and financial flows, human capital accumulation, poverty and income inequality. The cultural, economic, and political determinants of corruption and policy implications for improving governance. Prerequisite:
ECON 50.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Aturupane, C. (PI)
IPS 207A: Judgment and Decision Making (PUBLPOL 305A)
(Same as
LAW 333.) Theories and research on heuristics and biases in human inference, judgment, and decision making. Experimental and theoretical work in prospect theory emphasizing loss and risk aversion. Challenges that psychology offers to the rationalist expected utility model; attempts to meet this challenge through integration with modern behavioral economics. Decision making biases and phenomena of special relevance to public policy such as group polarization, group think, and collective action.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Brest, P. (PI)
IPS 207B: Public Policy and Social Psychology: Implications and Applications (PSYCH 216, PUBLPOL 305B)
Theories, insights, and concerns of social psychology relevant to how people perceive issues, events, and each other, and links between beliefs and individual and collective behavior. Topics include: situationist and subjectivist traditions of applied and theoretical social psychology; social comparison, dissonance, and attribution theories; social identity, stereotyping, racism, and sources of intergroup conflict and misunderstanding; challenges to universality assumptions regarding human motivation, emotion, and perception of self and others; the problem of producing individual and collective changes in norms and behavior.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Ross, L. (PI)
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