Department enforced prereqs., MATH 6130 and MATH 6140. Instructor consent required for undergraduates. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Assists students starting their doctoral thesis by discussing methodology and evaluation of economic research. Presents and discusses student research proposals. Department enforced prereqs., any two ECON courses at the 8000 level. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Presents the fundamental principles of public goods, externalities, public choice, excess burden, optimal taxation, and tax incidence. Department enforced prereq., ECON 7010. Requisites: 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. Department enforced 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. Department enforced prereqs., ECON 7010 and ECON 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. Department enforced prereq., ECON 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. Department enforced restriction: instructor consent required. Instructor consent required for undergraduates. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
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. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of APPM 5440 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Applied Mathematics (APPM) graduate students only.
Presents advanced topics in analysis including Lie groups, Banach algebras, operator theory, ergodic theory, representation theory, etc. Department enforced prereqs., MATH 8330 and MATH 8340. Instructor consent required for undergraduates. Requisites: 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). Department enforced prereqs., MATH 6310 and MATH 6320. Instructor consent required for undergraduates. See also MATH 8340. Requisites: 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). Department enforced prereq., MATH 8330. Instructor consent required for undergraduates. See also MATH 8330. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Examines trigonometric series, periodic functions, diophantine approximation, and Fourier series. Also covers Bohr and Stepanoff almost periodic functions, positive definite functions, and the L^1 and L^2 theory of the Fourier integral. Applications to group theory and differential equations. Department enforced prereq., MATH 5150 and MATH 6320. Instructor consent required for undergraduates. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Introduces advanced topics and research in mathematical and computational biology. Instructor consent required. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
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. Department enforced prereq., ECON 7010. Requisites: 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. Department enforced prereq., ECON 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. Department enforced prereq., ECON 8413 or ECON 8423. Requisites: 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. Department enforced prereq., 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. Department enforced prereq.,ECON 7010. Requisites: 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. Department enforced prereqs., ECON 7010 and ECON 8535. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
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. Department enforced prereq., ECON 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. Department enforced prereq., ECON 7010. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
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.
