Courses

Assists students starting their doctoral thesis by discussing methodology and evaluation of economic research. Presents and discusses student research proposals. Prereqs., two ECON courses at the 8000 level. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Presents the fundamental principles of public goods, externalities, public choice, excess burden, optimal taxation, and tax incidence. Prereq., ECON 6211 or 7010. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Continuation of ECON 8209. Assists students starting their doctoral thesis by discussing relevant economic research. Presents and discusses research papers. Prereq., ECON 8209.

Explores advanced topics in public economics such as decentralization, state and local government, program analysis, taxation, international tax issues, political economy issues, and market failure. Prereqs., ECON 6211 or 7010, and 8211.

Examines subnational governments and systems of governments, the effects of inter-governmental competition, appropriate tax and expenditure responsibilities, and variations in governing institutions. Covers congestible public goods, Tieabout mechanisms, and tax capitalization. Prereq., ECON 6211 or 7010.

Focuses on Maxwell equations, Lorentz force, Minkowski space-time, Lorentz, Poincare, and conformal groups,metric manifolds, covariant differentiation, Einstein space-time, cosmologies, and unified field theories. Prereq., instructor consent. Undergraduates must have approval of the instructor.

Covers basic theories in spatial location of economic activity and land use and the survey techniques developed to analyze, measure, and predict regional and urban structure and growth, such as economic base studies, regional social accounts, and input-output analysis. Prereq., ECON 6070 or 7010.

Investigates various theoretical topics in urban and regional economics, focusing on policy issues. Involves student research and presentations. Prereq., ECON 6070 or 7010.

Introduces the core methods in the analysis of nonlinear partial differential and integral equations or systems to graduate students. Provides a vehicle for the development, presentation, and corporative research of new topics in PDE and analysis. Prereq., APPM 5440. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Presents advanced topics in analysis including Lie groups, Banach algebras, operator theory, ergodic theory, representation theory, etc. Prereqs., MATH 8330 and 8340, or instructor consent. Undergraduates must have approval of the instructor. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Introduces such topics as Banach spaces (Hahn-Banach theorem, open mapping theorem, etc.), operator theory (compact operators and integral equations, and spectral theorem for bounded self-adjoint operators), and Banach algebras (the Gelfand theory). See also MATH 8340. Prereqs., MATH 6310 and 6320. Undergraduates must have approval of the instructor. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Introduces research on globalization and democratization from an interdisciplinary perspective. Examines ongoing interdisciplinary research on the global political economy. Students learn about ongoing research, critique current efforts, and design their own research project. Prereq., graduate standing in PSCI, ECON, GEOG, or SOCY. Same as PSCI 7333, SOCY 6031, and GEOG 5332.

Introduces such topics as Banach spaces (Hahn-Banach theorem, open mapping theorem, etc.), operator theory (compact operators and integral equations, and spectral theorem for bounded self-adjoint operators), and Banach algebras (the Gelfand theory). See also MATH 8330. Prereq., MATH 8330. Undergraduates must have approval of the instructor.

Examines trigonometric series, periodic functions, diophantine approximation, and Fourier series. Also covers Bohr and Stepanoff almost periodic functions, positive definite functions, and the L1 and L2 theory of the Fourier integral. Applications to group theory and differential equations. See also MATH 8380. Prereq., MATH 5150 and 6320. Undergraduates must have approval of the instructor.

Covers theories of comparative advantage, including the classical, factor-proportions, fixed-factor, and noncompetitive markets models. Examines trade policy including trade barriers, market distortions, strategic policy, regional integration, political economy, and factor migration. Prereq., ECON 6413 or 7010. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Highlights foreign exchange markets, past and current international monetary mechanisms, and processes of adjustment. Examines the role of international financial markets for the behavior of consumption, investment, saving, and production. Also considers international transmission of business cycles. Prereq., ECON 6423 or 7020.

Explores advanced work in various aspects of international economics, such as empirical trade analysis, public choice, and interactions between real and monetary phenomena in the world economy. Prereq., ECON 6413, 6423, 8413, or 8423. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Examines North America's past from the perspective of economics. Topics include growth and welfare in the colonial period; staple products, agricultural development, and the emerging industrialism in the antebellum period; transformation of the North American economy to 1914; the interwar years and the Great Depression; and economic integration since 1945. Prereqs., ECON 6070 and 6080, or ECON 7010.

Considers the allocation of society's scarce environmental resources and government attempts to achieve more efficient and equitable allocations. It is a course in applied welfare economics with an emphasis on market failure and valuation. Prereq., ECON 6535 and 6808; or ECON 7010. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Provides advanced study of recent advances in environmental economics and explores opportunities for new research. Topics vary with interests of instructor and students. Prereqs., ECON 6535 and 6808, or ECON 7010 and ECON 8535. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Offers a research seminar in joint hydrologic-economic modeling and systems analysis. Addresses problems of joint water quantity-water quality management and joint surface-ground water management. Prereq., ECON 6555.

Introduces advanced topics and research in computational mathematics. Prereq., instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Investigates economic determinants and consequences of demographic behavior in developing and developed countries. Issues include fertility and female labor supply interactions, the demographic transition, the effect of population growth on income distribution, family investments in children, and intergenerational mobility. Prereqs., ECON 3070 and 3080.

Focuses on the demand side of labor markets. Topics include standard static and dynamic models of labor demand, labor market discrimination, composition of compensation, labor hierarchies within enterprises, unionization, efficient contracts, and macroeconomics of labor markets. Prereq., ECON 6070 or 7010.

Focuses on special topics in labor economics: dynamic theories of labor supply, employment, and unemployment; labor supply in a household framework; and labor market activity and income distribution. Explores both theoretical models and empirical tests in each area. Prereq., ECON 6070 or 7010. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.