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The objective of this course is to give students an understanding of what international trade policy means for business leaders. To do this, students will have to understand the economic forces that determine the patterns and consequences of international trade. We will analyze trade policy tools used by governments (e.g., tariffs, subsidies and quotas), and examine the role of industry and politics at the domestic and global level in applying these tools. This course will combine lecture, case studies and group interaction.

This class applies the macroeconomic concepts that you've learned another course (e.g. in MgtEcon 300) to real-time current events.nnJust as you only really learn to speak a foreign language through immersion, the best way to understand macroeconomics is to use it intensively! In this class, there will be a new topic each week, chosen only days in advance to ensure timeliness. Examples may include "Janet Yellen's Monetary Policies" or "Economic Growth in Latin America" or "Thomas Piketty's New Book on Wealth Inequality." Students will divide into small groups, undertake research on a narrow question of their own choosing related to the general topic, and collectively write a 300-word blog entry to be posted on the (private) class blog at least 24 hours before class meets. Over the next day, students will read each others' entries. Finally, during class time, each group will lead a discussion of their blog post for 15-20 minutes.nnFor more information about this course, please see http://www.stanford.edu/~chadj/MacroToday.html after January 15, 2015.

Economic issues permeate all that happens in government. This topics-based course will exam a variety of historic and current issues on the political agenda where economics is central to decision making. It is taught by faculty who served at the White House in either the Clinton or George W. Bush Administration.

Most statistical questions involving data ultimately are about causal effects. What is the effect of changing prices on demand? What is the effect of an advertising campaign on demand. In this course we discuss statistical methods for analyzing causal effects. We look at the analysis and design of randomized experiments. We also look at various methods that have been used to establish causal effects in observational studies. Students will develop the skills to assess causal claims and learn to ask the right questions and evaluate statistical analyses. You will carry out research projects and work with statistical software.

This course covers auction theory, matching, and related parts of the literature on bargaining and pricing. Key papers in the early part of the course are Myerson and Satterthwaite on bargaining, Myerson on optimal auctions, and Milgrom and Weber's classic work. We then turn to markets in which complicated preferences and constraints, limitations on the use of cash, or variations in contract details among bidders play an important role. Emphasis is on matching markets such as the National Resident Matching Program and asset auctions such as the spectrum auctions.

This course completes the first-year sequence in econometrics. It develops nonlinear models in detail, as well as methods used to estimate nonlinear models, including nonparametric, semiparametric and moment-based estimators such as GMM. The instructor will discuss both the statistical properties of these estimators and how they are used in practice. Computational issues are explored in detail. Depending on student and instructor interest, we will consider advanced topics and applications, including: simulation methods and Bayesian estimators.

Students and faculty review and present recent research papers on basic theories and economic applications of decision theory, game theory and mechanism design. Applications include market design and analyses of incentives and strategic behavior in markets, and selected topics such as auctions, bargaining, contracting, signaling, and computation.

This course is intended to be an introduction to dynamic political economy theory. We will cover research at the frontier of this field and some useful tools. Tools will be primarily dynamic game theory - including Markov models and models of reputation. Topics covered will include dynamic legislative bargaining, dynamic coalition formation, endogenous institutions, endogenous policy formation, and private politics.

This course meets weekly on Tuesdays at Noon. The primary purpose of the course is to read and discuss current working papers in Industrial Organization and related fields (e.g., Econometrics, Marketing, and Labor). Students are required to present papers a couple of times per quarter and both students and faculty may also present their own working papers.