Description: The first part of this course deals with topics in probability theory, including random variables, conditional distributions, expectation, and multivariate distributions. The second part presents topics in mathematical statistics, including moment estimation, hypothesis testing, asymptotic theory, and maximum likelihood estimation.
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Location and Time: Maloney Hall 313 Su 11:00AM-12:00 Noon
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 16 / Total Seats: 25
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Location and Time: Maloney Hall 313 MW 10:30AM-11:45AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 16 / Total Seats: 25
Description: With ECON886, this course prepares students to do research in labor economics. Topics include labor supply and demand, human capital, education, job search, wage determination, unemployment, immigration, family and gender, and discrimination.
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Location and Time: O'Neill Library 253 MW 10:30AM-11:45AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 6 / Total Seats: 12
Description: This course covers major advances in time series analysis. In addition to univariate and multivariate models for stationary time series, it addresses the issues of unit roots and cointegration. The Kalman Filter and time series models of heteroskedasticity are also discussed. The course stresses the application of technical tools to economic issues, including testing money-income causality, stock market efficiency, the life-cycle model, and the sources of business cycle fluctuations.
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Location and Time: Maloney Hall 330 MW 09:00AM-10:15AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 10 / Total Seats: 12
Description: This is a course in asymptotic theory for econometric estimation and inference, with emphasis on nonlinear, cross section models. Topics include forms of convergence, consistency and limiting distribution theory, maximum likelihood, linear and nonlinear least squares, generalized method of moments, extremum estimators, nonparametric kernel estimators, and semiparametric estimators.
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Location and Time: Maloney Hall 330 F 10:00AM-12:30PM
Time Category: Afternoon
Used Seats: 5 / Total Seats: 10
Description: This course studies imperfect competition among firms, with an emphasis on empirical work. We learn how to implement empirical methods commonly used in Industrial Organization (IO), and how to read, and ultimately write, papers in empirical IO. Topics covered include demand estimation, auctions, price discrimination, bundling, asymmetric information and adverse selection, vertical control and contractual arrangements, and others as time allows. Each topic will be organized around recent empirical work. Throughout, we will consider the importance of identification in empirical studies.
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Location and Time: Maloney Hall 330 ThF 03:00PM-04:15PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 5 / Total Seats: 12
Description: This course considers various topics in monetary theory and policy with a particular emphasis on empirical applications. Included among the topics covered are money demand, the term structure of interest rates, asset pricing models, macroeconomic aspects of public finance, and models of unemployment and inflation.
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Location and Time: Maloney Hall 330 TuTh 12:00 Noon-01:15PM
Time Category: Afternoon
Used Seats: 8 / Total Seats: 10
Description: The course provides an introduction to international finance, spanning from the classic puzzles to current research. It is designed for Ph.D. students in their second year or later, and provides an overview of theory and empirical tools for conducting research in this field. We study two overarching themes: First, exchange rate dynamics and second, international risk sharing and financial integration.
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Location and Time: Maloney Hall 330 ThF 01:30PM-02:45PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 7 / Total Seats: 12
Description: In this elective advanced Graduate Class, we will cover many topics and problems that fall under the category game theory with more emphasis on dynamic games and repeated games. Although we will study some topics of dynamic games with complete information, there will be a disproportionate weight on problems with asymmetric information, and problems in which there are elements related to learning. More specifically, we will study Repeated Games, Reputation Games, Bargaining, Experimentation and Information Aggregation. Students should have a a strong background in Mathematical tools used in economics, and should have taken an advance undergraduate course in Game Theory, and/or first year Graduate Micro sequence.
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Location and Time: Maloney Hall 313 TuTh 10:30AM-11:45AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 2 / Total Seats: 12
Description: A student-designed graduate elective supervised by a faculty member.
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Location and Time: By Arrangement
Time Category: Unspecified
Used Seats: 3 / Total Seats: 5
Description: Third-year students in the Ph.D. program must participate in the Thesis Workshop, which meets once each week during both fall and spring terms. Third-year students are required to present a thesis proposal during the spring term.
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Location and Time: Maloney Hall 313 Tu 01:30PM-03:30PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 6 / Total Seats: 10
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Location and Time: Maloney Hall 313 Tu 03:30PM-05:30PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 7 / Total Seats: 10