Economics

• GRS EC 791: International Trade
  Theories and empirical analysis of international trade. Comparative advantage-based neoclassical theory and new trade theory. Quantitative heterogeneous firms models. Empirics of firm-level trade patterns. Multinational production and other forms of globalization: vertical specialization, outsourcing, offshoring.
• GRS EC 792: International Finance
  Theory and empirical analysis of problems in open economy macroeconomics and finance. Topics include dynamic macroeconomic models of open economies; international asset pricing; models of exchange rate determination; international risk sharing; sovereign debt and default.
• GRS EC 794: Financial Econometrics
  Presents econometric theory and methods for the analysis of financial markets. Topics include cross section and time series properties of asset returns, parametric and nonparametric volatility measurement, implied volatility, estimation of asset pricing models, continuous time models, systemic risk, and model uncertainty.
• GRS EC 798: Global Development Capstone
  Capstone course for MA students in Global Policy and Global Development Economics. Students, working in groups, apply economic theory, econometric methods, and real-world data to conduct an interdisciplinary policy analysis comparable to those performed in governments and nonprofit agencies.
• GRS EC 901: Dissertation Workshop in Applied Microeconomics 1
  Presentation and discussion of dissertation topics and work in progress.
• GRS EC 902: Dissertation Workshop in Macro and Monetary Economics 1
  Presentation and discussion of dissertation topics and work in progress.
• GRS EC 903: Dissertation Workshop in Applied Microeconomics 2
  Presentation and discussion of dissertation topics and work in progress.
• GRS EC 904: Dissertation Workshop in Applied Microeconomics 2
  Presentation and discussion of dissertation topics and work in progress.
• GRS EC 905: Dissertation Workshop in Economic Theory
  Presentation and discussion of dissertation topics and work in progress.
• GRS EC 906: Dissertation Workshop in Economic Theory
  Presentation and discussion of dissertation topics and work in progress.
• GRS EC 911: Dissertation Workshop in Econometrics 1
  Presentation and discussion of dissertation topics and work in progress.
• GRS EC 912: Dissertation Workshop in Econometrics 2
  Presentation and discussion of dissertation topics and work in progress.
• GRS EC 951: Dissertation Workshop in Empirical Microeconomics 1
  Presentation and discussion of dissertation topics and work in progress.
• GRS EC 952: Dissertation Workshop in Empirical Microeconomics 2
  Presentation and discussion of dissertation topics and work in progress.

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