Courses

The listing of a course description here does not guarantee a course’s being offered in a particular term. 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.

• CAS EC 765: Topics in Economic History 2
  Graduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor. - Second half of two-semester PhD sequence. Topics generally selected from: agricultural and environmental economic history; manufacturing; demographic change; the female labor force; labor mobility; inequality; business organization and performance.
• CAS EC 781: Health Economics 1
  Graduate Prerequisites: (GRSEC701) or consent of instructor. - Basic issues in the health market: risk aversion, moral hazard, adverse selection, provider payment, physician-patient interaction, health plans, managed care, imperfect and quality competition, and laboratory and field experiments. Theoretical approach complements industrial organization and GRS EC 782.
• CAS EC 782: Health Economics 2
  Graduate Prerequisites: (GRSEC707) or consent of instructor. - Applies theory and econometrics to health topics, including demand and supply, imperfect information, plan-level competition, provider payment, risk adjustment, big data sets, behavioral economics, altruism and health care systems in developed and developing countries. Complements GRS EC 781.
• CAS EC 791: International Trade
  Graduate Prerequisites: (GRSEC 701) or consent of instructor. - 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.
• CAS EC 792: International Finance
  Graduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor (GRSEC 712 recommended). - 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.
• CAS EC 794: Financial Econometrics
  Graduate Prerequisites: (GRSEC712) or consent of instructor. - 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.
• CAS EC 797: Writing and Communication
  Intended for economics students who are writing their dissertations. Covers paper organization, essentials of abstracts and introductions, rewriting and editing, table presentations, mathematical writing, and presentations at conferences and in seminars.
• CAS EC 798: Global Development Capstone
  Graduate Prerequisites: at least 12 credits toward the Global Development Policy MA or the Glo bal Development Economics MA. - 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.
• CAS EC 901: Dissertation Workshop in Applied Microeconomics 1
  Graduate Prerequisites: completion of PhD qualifying examinations. - Presentation and discussion of dissertation topics and work in progress.
• CAS EC 902: Dissertation Workshop in Macro and Monetary Economics 1
  Graduate Prerequisites: completion of PhD qualifying examinations. - Presentation and discussion of dissertation topics and work in progress.
• CAS EC 903: Dissertation Workshop in Applied Microeconomics 2
  Graduate Prerequisites: completion of PhD qualifying examinations. - Presentation and discussion of dissertation topics and work in progress.
• CAS EC 904: Dissertation Workshop in Applied Microeconomics 2
  Graduate Prerequisites: completion of PhD qualifying examinations. - Presentation and discussion of dissertation topics and work in progress.
• CAS EC 905: Dissertation Workshop in Economic Theory
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: completion of PhD qualifying examinations. - Presentation and discussion of dissertation topics and work in progress.
• CAS EC 906: Dissertation Workshop in Economic Theory
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: completion of PhD qualifying examinations. - Presentation and discussion of dissertation topics and work in progress.
• CAS EC 911: Dissertation Workshop in Econometrics 1
  Graduate Prerequisites: completion of PhD qualifying examinations. - Presentation and discussion of dissertation topics and work in progress.
• CAS EC 912: Dissertation Workshop in Econometrics 2
  Graduate Prerequisites: completion of PhD qualifying examinations. - Presentation and discussion of dissertation topics and work in progress.
• CAS EC 951: Dissertation Workshop in Empirical Microeconomics 1
  Graduate Prerequisites: completion of PhD qualifying examinations. - Presentation and discussion of dissertation topics and work in progress.
• CAS EC 952: Dissertation Workshop in Empirical Microeconomics 2
  Graduate Prerequisites: completion of PhD qualifying examinations. - Presentation and discussion of dissertation topics and work in progress.
• CAS EE 501: Advanced Topics in Remote Sensing
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASEE 302 - Examines advanced concepts in radiative transfer and information extraction relevant to remote sensing. Emphasis on applications of digital image processing to remote sensing problems.
• CAS EE 503: Micrometeorology: Energy and Mass Transfer at the Earth's Surface
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASEE 310, CASMA 121, and CASPY 211. - Modern theories and techniques for measurement and analysis of physical processes occurring at the Earth's surface: radiation regimes; energy and mass exchange; agricultural and forest micrometeorology, remote sensing and modeling of land surface properties and processes.