This 3-unit course explores the historical foundations of American economic growth and development since 1870. The study of economic history provides scholars the opportunity to understand and analyze, from a historical perspective, the impact of institutional and structural changes within the American economy.
This course is an overview of theories and principles underlying Macroeconomics and their applications to policy analysis. Lectures will cover those issues that the instructor believes important to a general understanding of Macroeconomics. Emphasis is given to those factors that determine the total level of production, employment, prices, interest rates, inflation and recession.
The course is divided into two sections. The first section will focus on international trade topics. These include the effects of trade on an economy, the economic consequences of protectionism and the institutional and legal structures of international trade in goods and services. The second section of the course will involve international financial issues. These include the determination of exchange rates, international capital flows, balance of payments accounts, and fixed versus flexible exchange rate regimes.
This course is designed to familiarize students with the tools of modern macroeconomic theory at the intermediate undergraduate level. Models are developed to explain how output, unemployment and inflation are determined. These models then are used to analyze monetary and fiscal policies.
An introduction to the economics of Europe, and by implication, to the economic functions of the institutions of the European Union (EU). Students are introduced to economic policy issues which are currently of concern in the European Union, and the analysis of economic problems which are of particular relevance to European Union member states. These include (but are not limited to) the theory of customs unions, optimal currency area theory, the single market, competition policy, and the external trade and development policies of the EU.
Econometrics represents the confluence of economic theory and statistical analysis. Classical statistical tools are designed to analyze randomly generated, “well-behaved” data. However, economic phenomena are fundamentally based on human decisions. As a result, most economic data are not “well-behaved”, and economists need sophisticated tools in order to draw valid inference from economic data.
This course provides hands-on experience in econometric analysis designed to help students to acquire the skills necessary to carry out their own empirical research in economics.
The goal of this course is to understand the economic problems of developing countries using economic theories and their applications. By the end of the semester, you are expected to have a good understanding of the challenges pertaining to social and economic transformation in developing countries; to know what economic theories tell us that should be done in developing countries to foster economic development; to know what has been done during the past decades and what is being done now both by practitioners and researchers in the field of Development Economics.
The goal of this course is to explain movements in the trade balance, exchange rates, national output, and inflation. The first portion of the course develops building blocks regarding these movements. The second part of the course develops a theoretical framework which we will use to analyze policy issues such as the sustainability of the US trade deficit, the Asian currency crisis, the Argentine crisis, the European Monetary Union and the Euro, the debt crisis, the international monetary system, and capital market integration.
This course is designed to provide students with the understanding of the classical and of the modern theories of economic growth. The Growth and Development Literature had a dramatic development in the last ten years and it is currently one of the most fertile grounds in economic analysis. At the same time the course introduces the students to the empirical analysis of economic growth and to important facts relative to policies and performances of countries. It is a combination of analytical models, empirical facts and policy discussions and issues
The course introduces methods of data-driven decision making. This is a hands-on data intensive course where we analyze topics related to management, marketing, and finance, such as pricing, promotion, branding, estimating returns on investments, and forecasting. The course will make extensive use of modern data-drive analytical methods.