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PUBLIC ECONOMICS (EC3076)

Provides the economic rationale for public intervention in markets (public goods, externalities, and distribution), and presents public expenditure issues, such as anti-poverty programs, health care, social security, and revenues, e.g., personal and corporate income taxes, as well as the political economics of public finance.

MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN ECONOMICS (EC3077)

Modern economics analysis is based on mathematics to a great extent.This class is designed to provide students with the appropriate mathematical tools essential for majors in Economics and similar disciplines. Students planning to pursue graduate studies in Economics are highly encouraged to take this course.Major topics include constrained and unconstrained optimization and comparative static analysis. In all cases the necessary mathematics is reviewed and subsequently applied to problems of economic theory and policy.In this course, particular economic models are not the ends, but the means for illustrating the method of applying mathematical techniques to economic theory in general.

INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMETRICS (EC3086)

Includes an introduction to the linear regression model; a review of elementary statistics; the two-variable regression model in detail; the multiple regression model, its use, and problems arising from violations of its underlying assumptions; and an introduction to simultaneous-equation models.

TOPICS IN ECONOMICS (EC3091)

Courses on different and emerging topics in the discipline, enriching the present course offerings. These classes are taught by permanent or visiting faculty.

INTERNSHIP (EC3098)

Internships may be taken for 1 or 4 credits. Students may do more than one internship, but internship credit cannot cumulatively total more than 4 credits.

INTERNSHIP (EC3980)

Internships may be taken for 0 credits. Students may do more than one internship, but internship credit cannot cumulatively total more than 4 credits.

INTERNSHIP (EC3980)

Internships may be taken for 0 credits. Students may do more than one internship, but internship credit cannot cumulatively total more than 4 credits.

MULTI-DISCIPLINARY PERSPECT ON POLIT'L ECON (EC4037)

As the bridge-course for the major in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, this team-taught course offers a multidisciplinary perspective on key questions of political economy. First presenting the similarities and differences between philosophical, political and economic approaches to political and economic rationality, the course offers varied analyses of representation and government, the commons, security, inequality and debt. The overall purpose of the course is to engage students, at various levels of theoretical abstraction and empirical precision, with the fundamental issues lying between ethics, politics, and economics.

SEMINAR IN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS AND FINANCE (EC4090)

The senior research seminar in economics and finance provides students with a capstone experience. Using
quantitative tools, students will embark on an empirical research project in economics or finance that interests
them most.