printer friendly pageECON 124: Economic Development and Challenges of East Asia
This course explores East Asia¿s rapid economic development and the current economic challenges. For the purpose of this course, we will focus on China, Japan, and Korea. The first part of the course examines economic growth in East Asia and the main mechanisms. In this context, we will examine government and industrial policy, international trade, firms and business groups, and human capital. We will discuss the validity of an East Asian model for economic growth. However, rapid economic growth and development in East Asia was followed by economic stagnation and financial crisis. The second part of the course focuses on the current economic challenges confronting these countries, in particular, inequality, demography, and entrepreneurship and innovation. Readings will come from books, journal articles, reports, news articles, and case studies. Many of the readings will have an empirical component and students will be able to develop their understanding of how empirical evidence is presented in articles. Prerequisites:
Econ 102B.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Lee, Y. (PI)
ECON 125: Economic Development, Microfinance, and Social Networks
An introduction to the study of the financial lives of households in less developed countries, focusing on savings, credit, informal insurance, the expansion of microfinance, and social networks. Prerequisites-
Econ 51 and 102B
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI, WAY-AQR, GER:EC-GlobalCom
Instructors:
Chandrasekhar, A. (PI)
ECON 126: Economics of Health and Medical Care (BIOMEDIN 156, BIOMEDIN 256, HRP 256)
Institutional, theoretical, and empirical analysis of the problems of health and medical care. Topics: demand for medical care and medical insurance; institutions in the health sector; economics of information applied to the market for health insurance and for health care; measurement and valuation of health; competition in health care delivery. Graduate students with research interests should take
ECON 249. Prerequisites:
ECON 50 and either
ECON 102A or
STATS 116 or the equivalent. Recommended:
ECON 51.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
Instructors:
Bhattacharya, J. (PI)
;
Chen, Y. (TA)
ECON 127: Economics of Health Improvement in Developing Countries (MED 262)
Application of economic paradigms and empirical methods to health improvement in developing countries. Emphasis is on unifying analytic frameworks and evaluation of empirical evidence. How economic views differ from public health, medicine, and epidemiology; analytic paradigms for health and population change; the demand for health; the role of health in international development. Prerequisites:
ECON 50 and
ECON 102B.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
ECON 128: Economic Development: A Historical Perspective
The course explores the process of economic development from a historical perspective. It draws on contemporary theories of economic development and the historical experience of various regions over the last millennium. The substantives focus is on the cultural and institutional and social foundations for economic growth. The stalker focus is particularly on the Middle East, Europe and China. The course is conducted as a seminar based on in class discussion, readings, and students presentations. Limited Enrollment. Prerequisites:
ECON 50,
ECON 52,
ECON 102B. Recommended:
ECON 118.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
Instructors:
Greif, A. (PI)
;
Liu, S. (TA)
ECON 130: Topics in Microeconomic Theory
This class aims to expand students' understanding of the scope of microeconomic theory using a rigorous mathematical approach. It is recommended that students enroll only if they have taken
Math 51 or
CS 103. The class will cover a selection of topics, mainly from the following list: fair division (of rents, estates, credit for projects, etc), matching (of students to schools, roommates, workers and firms, etc), strategy-proof mechanisms involving money (including auctions and public decision mechanisms), and voting theory (including Arrow's theorem and the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem). Prerequisite:
Econ 1 or 1V.
ECON 132: Economics and Sports
This course applies microeconomic analysis to professional and amateur sports. Appropriate examination of sports economics requires coverage of advanced fields of specialization within economics. These include industrial organization, labor economics, and public finance. Ultimately, the principal objective of the course is for students to have a more complete understanding of the economic issues affecting the world of sports. You will be able to comment intelligently on economic issues of sports that appear in the news media, such as the impact of the draft system, as well as assess and critique the opinions offered by journalists on, for example, the pay and performance of professional sportsmen and women. This is a unique opportunity to understand why there has been a recent explosion in economists looking both at the market of sports and using sports data to explain or test theories about the wider business world. Prerequisite:
Econ 1
Last offered: Summer 2015
ECON 135: Finance for Non-MBAs (MS&E 245G)
For graduate students and advanced undergraduates. The foundations of finance; applications in corporate finance and investment management. Financial decisions made by corporate managers and investors with focus on process valuation. Topics include criteria for investment decisions, valuation of financial assets and liabilities, relationships between risk and return, market efficiency, and the valuation of derivative securities. Corporate financial instruments including debt, equity, and convertible securities. Equivalent to core MBA finance course,
FINANCE 220. Prerequisites:
ECON 50,
ECON 102A, or equivalents; ability to use spreadsheets, and basic probability and statistics concepts including random variables, expected value, variance, covariance, and simple estimation and regression.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Sannikov, Y. (PI)
;
Dugalic, A. (TA)
ECON 136: Market Design
Use of economic theory and analysis to design allocation mechanisms and market institutions. Course focuses on three areas: the design of matching algorithms to solve assignment problems, with applications to school choice, entry-level labor markets, and kidney exchanges; the design of auctions to solve general resource allocation problems, with applications to the sale of natural resources, financial assets, and advertising; and the design of platforms and exchanges, with applications to internet markets. Emphasis on connecting economic theory to practical applications. Students must write term paper. Prerequisites: recommended:
ECON 51.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-FR
Instructors:
Martirena, G. (PI)
;
Milgrom, P. (PI)
ECON 137: Decision Modeling and Information
Effective decision models consider a decision maker's alternatives, information and preferences. The construction of such models in single-party situations with emphasis on the role of information. The course then evolves to two-party decision situations where one party has more information than the other. Models examined include: bidding exercises and the winner's curse, the Akerlof Model and adverse selection, the Principal-Agent model and risk sharing, moral hazard and contract design. Prerequisite:
ECON 102A or equivalent. Recommended:
Econ 50, Optimization and simulation in Excel.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-AQR, WAY-FR
Instructors:
McKeon, S. (PI)
;
Chen, W. (TA)
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