Highlights economics of regulation of industry and markets, industry studies, and the application of lab methods to industrial organization. Department enforced prereq., ECON 7010. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Addresses the theory of interaction of firms within markets and industries, emphasizing importance of the number, relative size of firms, market institution,firm strategies, and nature of consumer demand. Examines neoclassical and game theoretic models, empirical industry studies, and laboratory tests of theoretical models and policies. Department enforced prereq., ECON 7010. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Covers in historical perspective the causes of economic development including why some areas develop faster than others and why development occurs more rapidly in some eras than others. Department enforced prereq., ECON 7010. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Focuses on the problems encountered in countries evolving from planned to market economies. Emphasizes applications of new and traditional models of economic growth and analysis of problems unique to formerly planned economies. Department enforced prereq., ECON 7010.
Explores empirical, theoretical, and policy issues in economic development. Examines political economy, income distribution and poverty, demographic change, labor force employment and migration, human capital, physical capital, natural resources and the environment, industrial structure, international trade and finance, stabilization policy, and structural adjustment. Department enforced prereq., ECON 7010. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
First semester of two-semester sequence in econometrics for PhD students. Studies least squares and generalized least squares estimation of linear econometric models. Asymptotic (large sample) theory of inference. Some topics in the estimation of microdata. Department enforced prereq., ECON 7818. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Teaches the advanced level of econometrics theory. Topics include asymptotic theory, maximum likelihood estimation, limited dependent variables analysis and other frontier areas of econometrics such as the method of moment estimation, semiparametric and nonparametric estimation procedure. Department enforced prereq., ECON 7828.
Presents a "User's guide" to conducting empirical research in applied microeconomics. Begins with a primer on an industry-standard econometric software package including programming techniques and data management. Introduces advanced econometric techniques including panel data methods, IV, matching models, regression discontinuity, and limited dependent variables models. Concludes with a research project requiring a replication and/or extension of an existing published paper. Department enforced prereqs., ECON 7818 and ECON 7828. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Teaches students to construct a variety of applied economic models, obtain parameter values through calibration or estimation techniques, and uses the resulting models to conduct policy simulations. Department enforced prereqs., ECON 7010 and ECON 7818. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Provides an opportunity for independent research in a topic of special interest. Arrangements are made to suit the needs of each particular student. Not a free option Requisites: must be approved by student's advisor and department chair. Does not count as a seminar. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Same as PSCI 6901.
Provides an opportunity for independent research in a topic of special interest. Arrangements are made to suit the needs of each particular student. Not a free option Requisites: must be approved by student's advisor and department chair. Does not count as a seminar. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Same as PSCI 6902.
Provides an opportunity for independent research in a topic of special interest. Arrangements are made to suit the needs of each particular student. Not a free option Requisites: must be approved by student's advisor and department chair. Does not count as a seminar. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Same as PSCI 6903.
Provides an opportunity for independent research in a topic of special interest. Arrangements are made to suit the needs of each particular student. Not a free option Requisites: must be approved by student's advisor and department chair. Does not count as a seminar. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Same as PSCI 6904.
Provides an opportunity for independent research in a topic of special interest. Arrangements are made to suit the needs of each particular student. Not a free option Requisites: must be approved by student's advisor and department chair. Does not count as a seminar. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Same as PSCI 6905.
Provides an opportunity for independent research in a topic of special interest. Arrangements are made to suit the needs of each particular student. Not a free option Requisites: must be approved by student's advisor and department chair. Does not count as a seminar. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Same as PSCI 6906.
Provides an opportunity for independent research in a topic of special interest. Arrangements are made to suit the needs of each particular student. Not a free option Requisites: must be approved by student's advisor and department chair. Does not count as a seminar. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Same as PSCI 6908.
All doctoral students must register for no fewer than 30 hours of dissertation credit as part of the requirements for the degree. For a detailed discussion of doctoral dissertation credit, refer to the graduate school section.
