Courses

• CAS EC 342: Monetary and Banking Theory
  After a brief survey of the development of modern monetary theory, concentration on selected theoretical aspects of monetary economics and financial organization covered in CAS EC 341. Additional emphasis on capital theory and macroeconomic models. Research paper required.
• CAS EC 355: Economics of the Workplace and Public Policy
  Analysis of economic theories of human resources management and labor relations as they relate to wage determination, human capital investment, and labor productivity. Analyzes public policies toward unions, collective bargaining, and workplace regulation using historical materials and contemporary cases.
• CAS EC 356: Economics of the Labor Market
  Application of current theories of labor supply and demand, wages, education and experience, immigration, labor efficiency, discrimination, and unemployment. Appraisal of the effects of government policies on labor markets.
• CAS EC 363: Race and the Development of the American Economy: A Global Perspective
  (Meets with CAS AA 363.) Surveys the economic history of African Americans within the context of the development of the American and global economies. Topics include the economics of slavery; race and industrialization; the Great Migration; anti-discrimination legislation; and the historical origins of contemporary racial inequalities.
• CAS EC 365: Economic Institutions in Historical Perspective
  Historical development and role of institutions underlying market economies. Topics include contract enforcement and trading institutions, financial institutions, property rights in land, environmental resources such as water management and fisheries, economic infrastructure, regulation of labor, and capital markets.
• CAS EC 367: Economics of the Public Sector
  Basic principles of public finance; consideration of classical and modern attitudes toward government revenues and expenditures. Survey of problems related to public debt and budget making. Evaluation of fiscal policy as an instrument of control.
• CAS EC 368: Contemporary East Asian Economics
  An introduction to the economics of Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Topics include Japanese firms, labor markets, finance, monetary and fiscal policies, industrial policies, and Taiwanese and Korean post-1960 economic development.
• CAS EC 369: Economic Development of Latin America
  Contemporary issues of economic and social policy. Macroeconomic issues: inflation, stabilization, and the debt crisis. Foreign trade and economic restructuring. Poverty and income distribution. Role of the state.
• CAS EC 370: The Chinese Economy
  Introduces the working of the Chinese economy. Combines historical-institutional and theoretical- quantitative approaches to study the transformation of China's economy into a market economy with special characteristics.
• CAS EC 371: Environmental Economics
  Role of economics in environmental planning. Economic analysis of the causes of pollution and its control through taxes, the use of property rights, and standards. Application of cost-benefit models as an aid in policy decisions affecting the environment.
• CAS EC 377: Government, Business, and Labor
  Examines economic growth from the perspective of the structure, conduct, and performance of business. Combines economic theories of conduct and strategy with industry case studies and evaluates the effect of government policy toward business and labor on the performance of the economy.
• CAS EC 385: Economics of Sports
  Applies the tools of microeconomic theory and empirical methods to study such questions as the optimal design of sports leagues, the impact of new stadiums on a local economy, fan (customer) discrimination, and salary differentials between players.
• CAS EC 387: Introduction to Health Economics
  Concepts of health economics applicable to both developed and developing countries. Topics include effect of health on the economy, effect of health care on health, hospital behavior, health work-force supply, and demand for health care.
• CAS EC 391: International Economics I
  The pure theory of international trade. Topics include comparative advantage and gains from trade, tariff and nontariff barriers to trade, and case studies in international economic policy.
• CAS EC 392: International Economics II: Problems and Policy
  Basic issues of international finance. Topics include the balance of payments, balance of payments adjustments, theories of exchange rate determination, and case studies in international economic policy.
• CAS EC 401: Senior Independent Work
  
• CAS EC 402: Senior Independent Work
  
• CAS EC 403: Game Theory
  Models of decision-making in which the choices of different individuals interact: basic equilibrium notions in normal form games, including signaling games and repeated games. Applications include auctions, foreign policy, takeover bids, entry deterrence, cooperation and conflict, financial markets, and public goods.
• CAS EC 404: Economics of Information
  Introduction to the field of information economics and its applications. Covers a wide range of situations in which players have access to different private information and this private information differently affects their incentives and strategic behavior.
• CAS EC 414: Introduction to Econometrics
  Single equation models, hypothesis testing, econometric problems (errors in variables, heteroscedasticity, autocorrelation), instrumental variables, and simultaneous equation models. Emphasis on application to a variety of economic problems through the use of computer program packages.

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