Courses

The listing of a course description here does not guarantee a course’s being offered in a particular semester. Please refer to the published schedule of classes on the MyBU Student Portal for confirmation a class is actually being taught and for specific course meeting dates and times.

• GRS CS 953: Directed Study: Operating Systems
  Graduate-level directed study in a topic in operating systems.
• GRS CS 960: Directed Study: Database Management Systems
  Graduate-level directed study in a topic in database management systems.
• GRS CS 961: Directed Study: Database Management Systems
  Graduate-level directed study in a topic in database management systems.
• GRS CS 979: Directed Study: Computer Graphics
  Graduate-level directed study in a topic in computer graphics.
• GRS CS 980: Directed Study: Computer Graphics
  Graduate-level directed study in a topic in computer graphics.
• GRS CS 995: Directed Study: Computer Science
  Graduate-level directed study in a topic in computer science.
• GRS EC 701: Microeconomic Theory 1
  Neoclassical general equilibrium theory. Topics covered include consumption, production, existence of competitive equilibrium, fundamental welfare theorems, externalities, and uncertainty.
• GRS EC 702: Macroeconomic Theory 1
  Introduction to topics and tools in macroeconomics. Dynamic programming and rational expectations; neoclassical growth and real business cycle models; investment and financial markets; analysis of frictional labor markets.
• GRS EC 703: Microeconomic Theory 2
  Noncooperative game theory. Economics of information: adverse selection, signaling, principal agent problem, moral hazard and introduction to mechanism design.
• GRS EC 704: Macroeconomic Theory 2
  Effects of taxation and government spending; monetary non-neutrality and nominal rigidities; optimal fiscal and monetary policy.
• GRS EC 705: Introduction to Mathematical and Computational Economics
  The first half of the course covers introductory real analysis, including metric spaces, correspondences, fixed point theorems, and convex analysis. The second half covers basic skills for programming and computation for economists, including basic programming, software engineering, and numerical methods.
• GRS EC 707: Advanced Statistics for Economists
  Intermediate level probability and statistics course intended as preparation for econometrics and economic theory. Topics typically covered include random variables, moments, sampling, point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing, and asymptotic theory in the context of univariate and multivariate models.
• GRS EC 708: Advanced Econometrics 1
  Advanced treatment of econometric theory: projections, OLS, asymptotic theory, instrumental variables, GLS, heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation robust standard errors, multivariate systems, non-linear models, maximum likelihood, misspecified models, hypothesis testing, introduction to time series, unit root and cointegration, simultaneous equations, GMM.
• GRS EC 709: Advanced Econometrics 2
  Advanced course in econometrics with an emphasis on applications to cross-section, panel and time series data. Typically covers generalized method of moment and/or likelihood-based estimation in the context of limited dependent variable models, linear panel models, rational expectation models, structural vector autoregressions, and treatment effects.
• GRS EC 711: Advanced Topics in Econometrics
  Advanced course in econometrics with an emphasis on recent topics of research in microeconometrics. Examples of topics covered include nonparametric estimation, bootstrap, partial and weak identification, nonseparable models, quantile and distributional methods, nonlinear panel data models, and structural estimation.
• GRS EC 712: Time Series Econometrics
  Theory of stationary processes: models, estimation in the time and frequency domain, spectral analysis, asymptotic distribution, Kalman filter, VAR models. Non-stationary processes: functional central limit theorem, asymptotic results with unit roots, tests for unit roots, cointegrated systems, structural change models.
• GRS EC 716: Game Theory
  Noncooperative game theory with applications.
• GRS EC 717: Advanced Topics in Microeconomic Theory 1
  Topics in microeconomic theory to be selected by course instructors. The first half of the course (Christophe Chamley) presents the recent literature on social learning, fads, herds, with applications. The second half presents recent literature on network theory, including network formation, diffusion, learning, and network games.
• GRS EC 718: Advanced Topics in Microeconomic Theory 2
  Topics in microeconomic theory to be selected by course instructors. Areas include theory and applications of models of abstract choice, choice under uncertainty (risk, subjective uncertainty, ambiguity), choice over time, choice over menus. Critical analysis of key papers in the literature.
• GRS EC 721: Topics in Development Economics 1
  Analytical approaches to development economics, using applications of contract theory, information economics, voting theory, and dynamic methods. Topics include credit, households, firms, networks, occupational choice and human capital investment, inequality and institutional dynamics, property rights, political competition, corruption and clientelism.

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