Description: This is an advanced econometrics/data analytics course and extends ECON2228. Selected topics include linear and non-linear least squares estimation as well as maximum likelihood estimation, including logit/probit, ordered logit/probit and poisson/negative binomial count regression models. A term-long research project is an important part of the course and will entail in-class presentations as well as a submission at the end of the semester. The analytics in the course will be Stata-based, but students in doing their own work, should feel free to work in R, SAS, Python, or whatever their statistical language of choice might be. Examples and datasets are drawn entirely from the sports world. Limited enrollment.
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 203S W 03:00PM-06:00PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 18 / Total Seats: 18
Description: Not open to students who have taken ECON2271 or ECON3376 International financial markets, international trade and balance of payments issues will be studied by using analytical models of the open economy. Topics of particular interests are exchange rate determination, capital flows, trade flows, and other international linkages between economies. The course will apply the analytical tools of international economics to address macroeconomic aspects of current policy issues such as the global impact of the financial crisis, exchange rate policy, sovereign debt crises, and persistent trade deficits and international indebtedness.
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Location and Time: Gasson Hall 203 MW 01:30PM-02:45PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 39 / Total Seats: 39
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Location and Time: Gasson Hall 310 TuTh 10:30AM-11:45AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 39 / Total Seats: 39
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Location and Time: O'Neill Library 257 TuTh 12:00 Noon-01:15PM
Time Category: Afternoon
Used Seats: 39 / Total Seats: 39
Description: This undergraduate elective focuses on financial economics, with specific emphasis on asset pricing and the valuation of risky cash flows. After developing and studying the details of consumer decision-making under uncertainty, it uses that general framework as a basis for understanding both equilibrium and no-arbitrage theories of securities pricing, including the capital asset pricing model (CAPM), the consumption capital asset pricing model (CCAPM), Arrow-Debreu theories, martingale pricing methods, and the arbitrage pricing theory (APT).
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Location and Time: Merkert Chemistry Center 130 TuTh 12:00 Noon-01:15PM
Time Category: Afternoon
Used Seats: 51 / Total Seats: 47
Description: The world we live in is characterized by an exponential increase in data that accurately describe our daily lives, referred to as "big data." To harness this information, new methods like Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence have emerged, enabling high-dimensional statistical analyses. The aim of this course is to provide students with an introduction to modern data-driven learning, particularly for causal economic analysis. While we will cover the theoretical foundations, our emphasis will be on application and learning how and when to use these methods effectively, as well as identifying their limitations.The coursework comprises homework assignments utilizing simulated and real-world data, weekly online discussions on real-life data analysis problems, and a group project in the form of a case study. We will use R as our primary data analysis software and devote a significant amount of class time to teaching how to efficiently code various analytical models. Prior coding experience is welcome but not necessary, as everything you need to know about R will be taught from scratch.
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Location and Time: O'Neill Library 253 WF 01:30PM-02:45PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 34 / Total Seats: 39
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Location and Time: O'Neill Library 253 WF 04:30PM-05:45PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 16 / Total Seats: 24
Description: The student works under the direction of an individual professor.
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Location and Time: BY ARRANGEMENT
Time Category: Unspecified
Used Seats: 1 / Total Seats: 10
Description: This course provides guidance in developing a thesis topic and preparing a detailed proposal. ECON4497 must be completed prior to registering for ECON4498.
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Location and Time: O'Neill Library 253 TuTh 09:00AM-10:15AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 15 / Total Seats: 20
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Location and Time: O'Neill Library 253 TuTh 10:30AM-11:45AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 18 / Total Seats: 20
Description: Required of all seniors seeking a degree with Scholar of the College status.
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Location and Time: BY ARRANGEMENT
Time Category: Unspecified
Used Seats: 0 / Total Seats: 10
Description: "Economics studies the efficient allocation of scarce resources." It follows almost immediately from this definition that while verbal and graphical analyses are often helpful too, economists derive their sharpest and most powerful results by setting up and solving constrained (because resources are "scarce") optimization (because allocations should be "efficient") problems. Hence, this course introduces first-year graduate students to variety of techniques for doing just that: setting up and solving constrained optimization problems. Specific methods covered include those based on the Kuhn-Tucker and envelope theorems, the maximum principle, and dynamic programming. Note that since this is a "math for economists course", its emphasis is not so much on stating and proving theorems but on developing an intuitive understanding of how and why each method works and determining when one particular approach may be easier or more convenient than all others to apply to a specific problem.
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Location and Time: O'Neill Library 257 TuTh 10:30AM-11:45AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 16 / Total Seats: 25
Description: This course covers basic consumer and producer theory and expected utility maximization. Also covered are special topics in consumer theory, such as welfare change measures and revealed preference theory.
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Location and Time: Maloney Hall 313 Su 09:00AM-10:00AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 18 / Total Seats: 25
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Location and Time: Gasson Hall 207 TuTh 03:00PM-04:15PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 18 / Total Seats: 25
Description: The first half of the course presents Keynesian and classical models, rational expectations and its implications for aggregate supply, and economic policy. The second half covers the Solow growth model, infinite horizon and overlapping generation models, the new growth theory, real business cycle theory, and traditional Keynesian theories of fluctuations.
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Location and Time: Maloney Hall 313 Su 10:00AM-11:00AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 12 / Total Seats: 25
Professors: (BC Email Needed)
Location and Time: Maloney Hall 313 TuTh 09:00AM-10:15AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 12 / Total Seats: 25