Graduate Economics Courses

ECON670 Applied Policy Analysis
Empirical analysis of environmental and natural resource policy issues. Topics include valuation of natural resources, decision making under uncertainty, dynamic control and intertemporal issues in resource use and institutional aspects of policy analysis. Crosslisted with MAST672.
PREREQ: ECON300 or ECON301.

ECON675 Economics of Natural Resources 
Study of the allocation of natural resources, especially marine and coastal zone resources, in modern economics. Application of economic theory to the problems of misallocation and the means of correction, under both free and planned markets.  

ECON676 Environmental Economics 
Study of the choice of policies to protect the environment, including land, air and water resources. Theory of market failure and externalities, use of economic incentives in policy design, valuation of environmental resources and examination of inefficiencies in existing U.S. environmental policies.

ECON801 Microeconomic Theory
Analyzes consumer behavior and market demand, production, costs and the theory of the firm; market structures and competition in open and closed markets; general equilibrium theory and welfare economics.

ECON802 Macroeconomic Theory 
Studies the determination of output, employment, and the price level within classical, neoclassical, and contemporary frameworks; analyzes the effects of fiscal and monetary policy within these alternative frameworks, and examines the determinants of economic growth.

ECON805 Game Theory for Economists 
Study of the theory of games with complete and incomplete information in both static and dynamic contexts with applications to economic problems, primarily in the areas of labor economics of information and uncertainty, international trade, and macroeconomics.
PREREQ: ECON801 or equivalent.  Can be taken along with ECON801 with permission of instructor. 

ECON810 Mathematics for Economics
Introduces fundamental mathematical tools utilized in theoretical economic analysis. Typical topics include basic set theory and real analysis optimization in both static and dynamic environments, linear algebra, difference and differential equations, and probability theory. The use of these tools in constructing and analyzing economic models is heavily emphasized.

ECON811 Advanced Microeconomic Theory 
Prepares doctoral students with microeconomic and mathematical tools needed to read the literature and perform original research. Focuses on producer and consumer theory, general equilibrium, welfare economics, and game theory. Additional topics include; uncertainty, time, stability social choice, core theory, information, public goods, and externalities.
PREREQ: ECON801.

ECON812 Advanced Macroeconomic Analysis 
This course examines recent research and literature in macroeconomics. Among the topics treated are capital accumulation and economic growth, unemployment, inflation, financial markets, the open economy and international monetary economics, economic fluctuations, stabilization policy, fiscal policy, monetary and banking policy. This course is intended for doctoral students.
PREREQ: ECON802

ECON815 Managerial Forecasting 
Reviews quantitative methods commonly used in forecasting within a business and economics environment, including causal and time series techniques. Emphasis use and evaluation of techniques rather than their mathematical derivation. Economic theory integrates with statistical techniques providing forecasts of series such as prices, sales, inventories and costs.
PREREQ: MATH202

ECON819 Economics of Information 
This course extends basic economic paradigms to incorporate and assess the impact of imperfect information. Topics include analysis of principal-agent relationships with applications to insurance markets and signaling product quality, auctions, consumer search behavior, and an introduction to game theoretic models of economic behavior.
PREREQ: ECON801 or equivalent

ECON820  Economics of Education Policy.
Survey of theory, policy and practice of the field of Economic Education, including human capital, educational financing, and production of education.
PREREQ:  ECON801 and ECON822.

ECON822 Econometric Theory 
Application and modification of statistical techniques to economic data; presentation of the essentials of econometric theory.
PREREQ: MATH202 or STAT371

ECON823 Seminar in Econometrics 
Class discussion and research in advanced economic statistics and applied econometrics.
PREREQ: ECON822

ECON824 Topics in Advanced Econometrics 
Econometric techniques used in applied microeconomic analysis. Cross-section techniques, limited dependent variables, panel data analysis. Additional topics may also be covered. This course is intended for doctoral students.
PREREQ: ECON822 and ECON823 or equivalent

ECON825 Time-Series Econometrics 
Introduction to time-series methods, including modeling multivariate systems. Development of methods to test and insure goodness-of-fit of time-series models. Additional topics may also be covered. This course is intended for doctoral students.
PREREQ: ECON822 and ECON823 or equivalent

ECON828 Data Analysis and Management in Economics
Data management and econometric techniques using SAS. Emphasizes applications of econometric methods, rather than econometric theory.
PREREQ:  ECON822.

ECON829 Economic Education Curricula.
Survey of educational materials and methods in Economic Education and of related assessment studies, especially at the K-12 levels.
PREREQ: EDUC805 or EDUC806. 
Restrictions: Cannot be taken for credit by MA and PhD students in Economics.

ECON832 Public Finance 
Examines recent research and literature in public finance. Topics include public goods, public choice, externalities and environmental policy, expenditure programs for the poor, social insurance social security, health insurance, unemployment insurance, cost-benefit analysis, tax incidence, optimal taxation.
COREQ: ECON801

ECON841 International Trade and Development 
Covers the basis of exchange, trade policy, international factor movements and integration. Applications will focus on historical and current cases of economic development.
PREREQ:  ECON801; can be taken with ECON801 with permission of instructor. 

ECON842 International Finance and Development 
Continuation of ECON841 with emphasis on monetary issues. Covers such topics as foreign exchange market, balance of payments, exchange rate systems and international economic policy.
PREREQ: ECON802.

ECON846 Topics in Economic Development 
The course will include topics of current interest in development economics, such as labor markets, population, human capital and income distribution in developing countries. Additional or substitute topics may also be covered.
COREQ: ECON801;ECON822 is recommended

ECON852 Monetary Economics 
Course compares the role of money in various macroeconomic models: transactions demand for money, long term effects of inflation and government deficit finance decisions in intertemporal models, capital theory and the pricing of financial securities as well as theories of the term structure of interest rates.
PREREQ: ECON802 or equivalent

ECON861 Industrial Organization and Antitrust Policies
Analyzes industrial markets in terms of structure, competition and performance,with concentration on oligopolistic and differentiated competition, statistical relationships between profits and concentration, entrepreneurship and hierarchy, and innovation. Also discusses government antitrust policies to promote competition. 
PREREQ:  ECON801.

ECON862 Economics of Regulation 
Economic rationale for government regulation of industries. Regulatory mechanisms to induce optimal behavior. Case studies of transportation, telecommunications and electric utility industries with empirical applications. COREQ: ECON801, ECON822 or equivalent

ECON875 Advanced Fishery Economics 
Theoretical and applied study of the optimal utilization and management of commercial and recreational fisheries with emphasis on equity issues and the difficulty of deriving regulations which are biologically effective and which provide incentives for economic efficiency at reasonable costs.
PREREQ: ECON675

ECON880 Labor Economics 
Covers topics in labor economics, including labor demand, labor supply, investment in human capital, wage determination, and labor market discrimination. Applications to public policy issues will be stressed throughout. COREQ/PREREQ: ECON801, ECON822 or equivalent

ECON890 Colloquium: Economics Seminar Series
Regularly scheduled lectures by faculty and visiting researchers provide exposure to current research in economics.