This course covers the basics of Walrasian general equilibrium theory as set out in Debreu’s Theory of Value, and thereby covers the standard (neoclassical) partial equilibrium theories of production and consumption. In addition, it covers Kuhn-Tucker optimization theory and its specializations of concave and linear programming. Finally, it touches on order structures and monotone comparative statics, as well as decision making under risk. A subtext of the course will be an exploration of how loose economic ideas and intuitions can be given formal mathematical expression. Prerequisites: Economics PhD students or permission of the instructor

• Days/Times: W 9:00AM - 11:45AM, F 9:30AM - 11:30AM
• Instructor: Daley, Brendan; Khan, Mohammed Ali
• Room: Wyman Park W603
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

Theory and evidence about the dynamic behavior of households, firms, and the macroeconomy as a whole in the short and long run. Begins with a thorough discussion of the consumption/saving problem of households, including the role of uncertainty, then moves to investment behavior of firms, including the relationship between financial markets and firm behavior. General equilibrium models of firms and households combine to generate benchmark models of economic growth, which leads us to a benchmark specification for dynamic aggregate macroeconomic models.

• Days/Times: MT 1:15PM - 2:45PM, W 1:00PM - 2:00PM
• Instructor: Carroll, Chris
• Room: Wyman Park W603
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 11/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

Theory and applications of statistical inference. Topics include probability and sampling, distribution theory, estimation, hypothesis testing, and simple regression analysis. Statistical applications will be drawn from economics. Limited to graduate students in Economics except by permission of the chair. Recommended Course Background: AS.110.201, AS.110.302

• Days/Times: Th 1:00PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Li, Lixiong
• Room: Wyman Park W603
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

This is an advanced graduate course on the major econometric techniques and models used in empirical microeconomics. We will cover topics such as extremum estimators, quantile regression, semiparametric efficiency and estimation, plugin estimators, simulation methods such as the bootstrap and MCMC, weak instrumental variables, measurement error and latent variable models, and identification analysis. Theoretical development will be accompanied by discussion and examples of applications.

• Days/Times: Th 10:00AM - 12:30PM
• Instructor: Hu, Yingyao; Spady, Richard H.
• Room: Wyman Park W604
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

A course on the allocation of health care goods and services and the production of health. We will focus on models and recent empirical evidence on consumer decisions, producer objectives, government interventions, and the determination of equilibrium. Health care markets have many nonstandard features, and the course will provide an introduction to these institutional details. Neoclassical models of health-related behaviors and health production will also be covered briefly.

• Days/Times: Th 1:00PM - 3:30PM
• Instructor: Richards-Shubik, Seth
• Room: Wyman Park W604
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This is an advanced graduate course on international macroeconomics. The covered topics include the intertemporal approach to the current account; the determinants of global imbalances and real exchange rates; sovereign debt and default; the impact of domestic and international financial frictions on capital flows; and New Keynesian open economy macroeconomics.

• Days/Times: Th 3:30PM - 6:00PM
• Instructor: Jeanne, Olivier
• Room: Wyman Park W604
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course studies the theory of asset trading in which agents hold different information and/or beliefs. Foundational papers as well as recent ones will be covered, with applications both within and outside of Finance. Topics include: information aggregation via prices; rational expectations equilibrium; market micro-structure; large auctions; herding/information cascades/price bubbles; dynamic models and learning.

• Days/Times: T 12:45PM - 3:15PM
• Instructor: Daley, Brendan
• Room: Wyman Park W604
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course will introduce structual approach in applied microeconomics, with emphasis on models including endogenous unobservable heterogeneity. The first half of this course will cover popular estimators, such as simulated method of moments, indirect inference, conditional choice probability estimator. The course will cover both single agent problem and multi- agents problem, potentially including endogenious unobservable heterogeneity. The second half of this course will discuss multiple decision maker problem, so- called collective model, and family formation and dissolution model, and cultural economics.

• Days/Times: W 9:30AM - 12:00PM
• Instructor: Hwang, Yujung
• Room: Wyman Park W604
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Theories of the allocation of time and supply of labor, human capital, demand for labor, market equilibrium, and income distribution. As time allows, other topics, such as unemployment, unions, and compensating differences are discussed. Corequisite: AS.180.601

• Days/Times: T 5:00PM - 7:30PM
• Instructor: Moffitt, Robert A
• Room: Wyman Park W604
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is composed of two parts. In the first half, we will cover an introduction to Bayesian methods and standard methods as Metropolis, Metropolis-Hasting, Gibbs sampling, etc. We will then review the relation between Bayesian methods and machine learning. In the second part, we will study how Bayesian methods and machine learning have been used in the macro and macro-finance literatures to handle DSGE's, VAR's, Markov-switching-VAR's, Time-Varying VAR's, textual analysis, forecasting, etc.

• Days/Times: T 9:30AM - 12:00PM
• Instructor: Bianchi, Francesco
• Room: Wyman Park W604
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This is the first course in the Industrial Organization field sequence. It focuses primarily on the empirical analysis of the static models of competition with strategically interdependent agents. The course covers the estimation methods and applied work in the following areas: demand estimation, analysis of strategic entry, network markets, and markets with non-standard price setting mechanisms such as bargaining or auctions.

• Days/Times: M 1:00PM - 3:30PM
• Instructor: Krasnokutskaya, Elena
• Room: Wyman Park W604
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/11
• PosTag(s): n/a

Advanced econometric techniques are often essential to innovative empirical work, but finding and implementing the right methods for a particular problem poses formidable challenges. This course/seminar aims to address these challenges by combining lectures and discussions of foundational econometric methods in areas of student interest (whether those interests be specific for thesis work or more speculative) with examples of implementation, including software development, in more of a ‘workshop’ environment. The emphasis will be on drawing on the resources of econometric theory to address specific empirical issues while at the same time developing implementation skills.

• Days/Times: W 1:00PM - 3:30PM
• Instructor: Spady, Richard H.
• Room: Wyman Park W604
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This is a weekly seminar series that brings in speakers from other universities to present their research in the field of applied microeconomics. Graduate Students only.

• Days/Times: W 3:30PM - 5:00PM
• Instructor: Hwang, Yujung
• Room: Wyman Park W603
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

This is a seminar series devoted to the presentation of research in microeconomic theory, typically by speakers from outside the department. Graduate students only.

• Days/Times: M 3:30PM - 5:00PM
• Instructor: Daley, Brendan
• Room: Wyman Park W603
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 16/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course features lectures by economists from other universities. They present research findings at the frontier of the field. Graduate students only.

• Days/Times: T 3:30PM - 5:00PM
• Instructor: Ball, Laurence M
• Room: Wyman Park W603
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

The purpose of this seminar is to train students to do research in economics. This course is for second year graduate students in the Ph.D program in Economics. Graduates Students Only.

• Days/Times: F 12:30PM - 2:30PM
• Instructor: Karni, Edi
• Room: Wyman Park W604
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for students working on the dissertation for the Ph.D. in Economics. It is graded pass-fail

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Duffee, Greg R
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 33/60
• PosTag(s): n/a

Successful completion of this course counts towards the Ph.D. research requirement. This course is for second-year graduate students in the Economics Ph.D. program to obtain graduate credit for work off-campus that provides training and the development of skills in research. Before the practicum is begun, the graduate student must identify a sponsoring faculty member or seek permission from the student’s faculty adviser. The faculty member or adviser must sign a form that certifies that graduate credit will be granted, verifies the nature of the work to be performed by the student, and explains how the practicum helps to fulfill a degree requirement. Graded Pass/Fail.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Chen, Ying
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Successful completion of this course counts towards the Ph.D. research requirement. This course is for second-year graduate students in the Economics Ph.D. program to obtain graduate credit for work off-campus that provides training and the development of skills in research. Before the practicum is begun, the graduate student must identify a sponsoring faculty member or seek permission from the student’s faculty adviser. The faculty member or adviser must sign a form that certifies that graduate credit will be granted, verifies the nature of the work to be performed by the student, and explains how the practicum helps to fulfill a degree requirement. Graded Pass/Fail.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Moffitt, Robert A
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Successful completion of this course counts towards the Ph.D. research requirement. This course is for second-year graduate students in the Economics Ph.D. program to obtain graduate credit for work off-campus that provides training and the development of skills in research. Before the practicum is begun, the graduate student must identify a sponsoring faculty member or seek permission from the student’s faculty adviser. The faculty member or adviser must sign a form that certifies that graduate credit will be granted, verifies the nature of the work to be performed by the student, and explains how the practicum helps to fulfill a degree requirement. Graded Pass/Fail.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Krasnokutskaya, Elena
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Successful completion of this course counts towards the Ph.D. research requirement. This course is for second-year graduate students in the Economics Ph.D. program to obtain graduate credit for work off-campus that provides training and the development of skills in research. Before the practicum is begun, the graduate student must identify a sponsoring faculty member or seek permission from the student’s faculty adviser. The faculty member or adviser must sign a form that certifies that graduate credit will be granted, verifies the nature of the work to be performed by the student, and explains how the practicum helps to fulfill a degree requirement. Graded Pass/Fail.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Khan, Mohammed Ali
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Successful completion of this course counts towards the Ph.D. research requirement. This course is for second-year graduate students in the Economics Ph.D. program to obtain graduate credit for work off-campus that provides training and the development of skills in research. Before the practicum is begun, the graduate student must identify a sponsoring faculty member or seek permission from the student’s faculty adviser. The faculty member or adviser must sign a form that certifies that graduate credit will be granted, verifies the nature of the work to be performed by the student, and explains how the practicum helps to fulfill a degree requirement. Graded Pass/Fail.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Jeanne, Olivier
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Successful completion of this course counts towards the Ph.D. research requirement. This course is for second-year graduate students in the Economics Ph.D. program to obtain graduate credit for work off-campus that provides training and the development of skills in research. Before the practicum is begun, the graduate student must identify a sponsoring faculty member or seek permission from the student’s faculty adviser. The faculty member or adviser must sign a form that certifies that graduate credit will be granted, verifies the nature of the work to be performed by the student, and explains how the practicum helps to fulfill a degree requirement. Graded Pass/Fail.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Hwang, Yujung
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Successful completion of this course counts towards the Ph.D. research requirement. This course is for second-year graduate students in the Economics Ph.D. program to obtain graduate credit for work off-campus that provides training and the development of skills in research. Before the practicum is begun, the graduate student must identify a sponsoring faculty member or seek permission from the student’s faculty adviser. The faculty member or adviser must sign a form that certifies that graduate credit will be granted, verifies the nature of the work to be performed by the student, and explains how the practicum helps to fulfill a degree requirement. Graded Pass/Fail.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Papageorge, Nicholas W
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Successful completion of this course counts towards the Ph.D. research requirement. This course is for second-year graduate students in the Economics Ph.D. program to obtain graduate credit for work off-campus that provides training and the development of skills in research. Before the practicum is begun, the graduate student must identify a sponsoring faculty member or seek permission from the student’s faculty adviser. The faculty member or adviser must sign a form that certifies that graduate credit will be granted, verifies the nature of the work to be performed by the student, and explains how the practicum helps to fulfill a degree requirement. Graded Pass/Fail.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bianchi, Francesco
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Successful completion of this course counts towards the Ph.D. research requirement. This course is for second-year graduate students in the Economics Ph.D. program to obtain graduate credit for work off-campus that provides training and the development of skills in research. Before the practicum is begun, the graduate student must identify a sponsoring faculty member or seek permission from the student’s faculty adviser. The faculty member or adviser must sign a form that certifies that graduate credit will be granted, verifies the nature of the work to be performed by the student, and explains how the practicum helps to fulfill a degree requirement. Graded Pass/Fail.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Carroll, Chris
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Successful completion of this course counts towards the Ph.D. research requirement. This course is for second-year graduate students in the Economics Ph.D. program to obtain graduate credit for work off-campus that provides training and the development of skills in research. Before the practicum is begun, the graduate student must identify a sponsoring faculty member or seek permission from the student’s faculty adviser. The faculty member or adviser must sign a form that certifies that graduate credit will be granted, verifies the nature of the work to be performed by the student, and explains how the practicum helps to fulfill a degree requirement. Graded Pass/Fail.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Hu, Yingyao
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Successful completion of this course counts towards the Ph.D. research requirement. This course is for second-year graduate students in the Economics Ph.D. program to obtain graduate credit for work off-campus that provides training and the development of skills in research. Before the practicum is begun, the graduate student must identify a sponsoring faculty member or seek permission from the student’s faculty adviser. The faculty member or adviser must sign a form that certifies that graduate credit will be granted, verifies the nature of the work to be performed by the student, and explains how the practicum helps to fulfill a degree requirement. Graded Pass/Fail.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Ball, Laurence M
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Successful completion of this course counts towards the Ph.D. teaching requirement. This course is for graduate students in the Economics Ph.D. program to obtain graduate credit for work off-campus that provides training and the development of skills in teaching. Before the practicum is begun, the graduate student must identify a sponsoring faculty member or seek permission from the student’s faculty adviser. The faculty member or adviser must sign a form that certifies that graduate credit will be granted, verifies the nature of the work to be performed by the student, and explains how the practicum helps to fulfill a degree requirement. Graded Pass/Fail.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Staff
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 40/40
• PosTag(s): n/a

Successful completion of this course counts towards the Ph.D. research requirement. This course is for second-year graduate students in the Economics Ph.D. program to obtain graduate credit for work off-campus that provides training and the development of skills in research. Before the practicum is begun, the graduate student must identify a sponsoring faculty member or seek permission from the student’s faculty adviser. The faculty member or adviser must sign a form that certifies that graduate credit will be granted, verifies the nature of the work to be performed by the student, and explains how the practicum helps to fulfill a degree requirement. Graded Pass/Fail.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Wright, Jonathan H
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Successful completion of this course counts towards the Ph.D. research requirement. This course is for second-year graduate students in the Economics Ph.D. program to obtain graduate credit for work off-campus that provides training and the development of skills in research. Before the practicum is begun, the graduate student must identify a sponsoring faculty member or seek permission from the student’s faculty adviser. The faculty member or adviser must sign a form that certifies that graduate credit will be granted, verifies the nature of the work to be performed by the student, and explains how the practicum helps to fulfill a degree requirement. Graded Pass/Fail.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Wiswall, Matthew
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Successful completion of this course counts towards the Ph.D. research requirement. This course is for second-year graduate students in the Economics Ph.D. program to obtain graduate credit for work off-campus that provides training and the development of skills in research. Before the practicum is begun, the graduate student must identify a sponsoring faculty member or seek permission from the student’s faculty adviser. The faculty member or adviser must sign a form that certifies that graduate credit will be granted, verifies the nature of the work to be performed by the student, and explains how the practicum helps to fulfill a degree requirement. Graded Pass/Fail.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Richards-Shubik, Seth
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Successful completion of this course counts towards the Ph.D. research requirement. This course is for second-year graduate students in the Economics Ph.D. program to obtain graduate credit for work off-campus that provides training and the development of skills in research. Before the practicum is begun, the graduate student must identify a sponsoring faculty member or seek permission from the student’s faculty adviser. The faculty member or adviser must sign a form that certifies that graduate credit will be granted, verifies the nature of the work to be performed by the student, and explains how the practicum helps to fulfill a degree requirement. Graded Pass/Fail.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Elliott, Jonathan Tyler
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

The course covers parts of game theory and the economics of information. Game theory topics include solution concepts such as dominance, Nash equilibrium, subgame perfect equilibrium and Perfect Bayesian equilibrium. We will discuss both static and dynamic games and games of complete and incomplete information. The course also introduces the economic issues associated with asymmetric information and analyzes the institutions and mechanisms designed to mitigate the resulting inefficiencies. Topics include adverse selection, moral hazard, incentive contracts, and mechanism design.

• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 3:00PM
• Instructor: Chen, Ying; Petri Betto, Maria Fernanda
• Room: Wyman Park W603
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 18/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course covers the macrodynamic theory of cycles, unemployment and inflation, and selected subjects.

• Days/Times: TTh 5:15PM - 6:46PM
• Instructor: Ball, Laurence M; Jeanne, Olivier
• Room: Wyman Park W603
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 20/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

Prof. Carroll’s course focuses on heterogeneous agent macroeconomic modeling, with an emphasis on hands-on learning about how to construct heterogeneous agent models using state-of-the-art techniques.

• Days/Times: T 11:00AM - 12:00PM, T 1:00PM - 2:30PM
• Instructor: Carroll, Chris
• Room: Wyman Park W604
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

The course is an attempt to provide a framework for discussing the techniques that are used in macroeconometric analysis. Generally the bias that it has is one of looking at these from the perspective of someone analyzing macroeconomic data for policy analysis. Consequently, many of the applications considered are drawn from the type of research conducted in central banks and finance ministries. Its emphasis is therefore upon the issues raised by the analysis of time series of macro-economic data. Today there is an emerging literature that looks at micro-economic data as well as conducting cross-country studies. We will tend to ignore that material as the methods used in such research are essentially those of micro-econometrics, although sometimes with adjustments made to reflect the nature of macro-economic time series.

• Days/Times: M 10:30AM - 1:00PM
• Instructor: Wright, Jonathan H
• Room: Wyman Park W604
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This hands-on course will teach students the nonstructural empirical techniques that can be used to analyze data to draw causal inference. The tools that are covered, which will include experimental and quasi-experimental methods, will be relevant to any student interested in doing empirical research.

• Days/Times: M 10:30AM - 1:00PM
• Instructor: Isen, Adam M
• Room: Wyman Park W603
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for students working on the dissertation for the Ph.D. in Economics. It is graded pass-fail

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Duffee, Greg R
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/60
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course teaches methods for using micro-data to recover structural parameters of microeconomic models. We cover static models, but focus largely on single-agent dynamic programming, including “full solution” methods along with innovations that permit circumvention of daunting computational tasks. Additional topics will be partially based on students’ interests, but will likely include: general equilibrium models, static and dynamic games, matching models, unobserved heterogeneity, structural methods with experimental data and biased expectations. The goal is to teach students to use structural methods in their own research, and so we will delve into the nuts and bolts of structural work, examining how researchers actually get from raw data to results. This includes: how the sub-sample for analysis is chosen, how the model is specified, how the programming problem is solved, which moments are generated, how these are matched to the analogous moments in the data and, importantly, how identification is established.

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 3:30PM
• Instructor: Papageorge, Nicholas W
• Room: Wyman Park W604
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

The purpose of this seminar is to train students to do research in economics. This course is for second year graduate students in the PhD program in Economics. For Graduate Students Only.

• Days/Times: F 12:30PM - 1:30PM
• Instructor: Karni, Edi
• Room: Wyman Park W604
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 30/30
• PosTag(s): n/a

Mathematical models of economic behavior and the use of statistical methods for testing economic theories and estimating economic parameters. Subject matter will vary from year to year; statistical methods, such as linear regression, multivariate analysis, and identification, estimation and testing in simultaneous equation models, will be stressed.

• Days/Times: M 3:00PM - 4:30PM, W 10:00AM - 11:30AM
• Instructor: Wiswall, Matthew
• Room: Wyman Park W604
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 20/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

The first part of the course will cover topics in game theory including strategic communication, bargaining, repeated and dynamic games; the second part will cover topics in economics of information, mechanism design, and social choice theory not covered in Micro II

• Days/Times: M 1:00PM - 3:30PM
• Instructor: Daley, Brendan; Petri Betto, Maria Fernanda
• Room: Wyman Park W603
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course will provide an in-depth treatment of dynamic life-cycle models, including both continuous choice models that can be analyzed using Euler equation methods, and dynamic discrete choice models that required dynamic programming methods. We will study applications of life-cycle models to a range of topics including labor supply and saving, education and occupational choice, and fertility and marriage. We will also examine recent work that incorporates health and health shocks into life-cycle models. Students will learn the econometric and computational methods used to implement dynamic discrete choice models.

• Days/Times: W 5:00PM - 7:30PM
• Instructor: Keane, Michael
• Room: Wyman Park W604
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course covers methods in applied empirical Industrial Organization. Similarly to the first term, the focus will be on the use of econometric analysis and data for descriptive and measurement purposes, and for testing the predictions of economic theories. Particular attention in this term will be given to dynamic settings and the empirical analysis of firm behavior. Topics to be covered include dynamic discrete choice, dynamic games, and dynamic demand.

• Days/Times: T 2:30PM - 5:00PM
• Instructor: Elliott, Jonathan Tyler
• Room: Wyman Park W604
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/9
• PosTag(s): n/a

This is a seminar series devoted to the presentation of research in microeconomic theory, typically by speakers from outside the department. Graduate students only.

• Days/Times: M 3:30PM - 5:00PM
• Instructor: Petri Betto, Maria Fernanda
• Room: Wyman Park W603
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 20/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

Successful completion of this course counts towards the Ph.D. research requirement. This course is for second-year graduate students in the Economics Ph.D. program to obtain graduate credit for work off-campus that provides training and the development of skills in research. Before the practicum is begun, the graduate student must identify a sponsoring faculty member or seek permission from the student’s faculty adviser. The faculty member or adviser must sign a form that certifies that graduate credit will be granted, verifies the nature of the work to be performed by the student, and explains how the practicum helps to fulfill a degree requirement. Graded Pass/Fail.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Richards-Shubik, Seth
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course studies common environments in macroeconomics where one or more agents lack the ability to credibly commit to making choices in the future (often due to either an enforcement constraint or asymmetric information). Both foundational papers and more recent work will be discussed. Topics to be covered will include models of borrowing and default, models of monetary policy, and models of insurance. In addition to studying these models theoretically, students will learn how to solve some of them computationally (and do so fast enough for quantitative work).

• Days/Times: M 4:30PM - 7:00PM
• Instructor: Fourakis, Stelios Stephen
• Room: Wyman Park W604
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Successful completion of this course counts towards the Ph.D. research requirement. This course is for second-year graduate students in the Economics Ph.D. program to obtain graduate credit for work off-campus that provides training and the development of skills in research. Before the practicum is begun, the graduate student must identify a sponsoring faculty member or seek permission from the student’s faculty adviser. The faculty member or adviser must sign a form that certifies that graduate credit will be granted, verifies the nature of the work to be performed by the student, and explains how the practicum helps to fulfill a degree requirement. Graded Pass/Fail.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Ball, Laurence M
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Successful completion of this course counts towards the Ph.D. research requirement. This course is for second-year graduate students in the Economics Ph.D. program to obtain graduate credit for work off-campus that provides training and the development of skills in research. Before the practicum is begun, the graduate student must identify a sponsoring faculty member or seek permission from the student’s faculty adviser. The faculty member or adviser must sign a form that certifies that graduate credit will be granted, verifies the nature of the work to be performed by the student, and explains how the practicum helps to fulfill a degree requirement. Graded Pass/Fail.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Elliott, Jonathan Tyler
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Successful completion of this course counts towards the Ph.D. teaching requirement. This course is for graduate students in the Economics Ph.D. program to obtain graduate credit for work off-campus that provides training and the development of skills in teaching. Before the practicum is begun, the graduate student must identify a sponsoring faculty member or seek permission from the student’s faculty adviser. The faculty member or adviser must sign a form that certifies that graduate credit will be granted, verifies the nature of the work to be performed by the student, and explains how the practicum helps to fulfill a degree requirement. Graded Pass/Fail.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Staff
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 30/30
• PosTag(s): n/a

Successful completion of this course counts towards the Ph.D. research requirement. This course is for second-year graduate students in the Economics Ph.D. program to obtain graduate credit for work off-campus that provides training and the development of skills in research. Before the practicum is begun, the graduate student must identify a sponsoring faculty member or seek permission from the student’s faculty adviser. The faculty member or adviser must sign a form that certifies that graduate credit will be granted, verifies the nature of the work to be performed by the student, and explains how the practicum helps to fulfill a degree requirement. Graded Pass/Fail.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Wright, Jonathan H
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This is a weekly seminar series that brings in speakers from other universities to present their research in the field of applied microeconomics. Graduate Students only.

• Days/Times: W 3:30PM - 5:00PM
• Instructor: Elliott, Jonathan Tyler
• Room: Wyman Park W603
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 20/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

Successful completion of this course counts towards the Ph.D. research requirement. This course is for second-year graduate students in the Economics Ph.D. program to obtain graduate credit for work off-campus that provides training and the development of skills in research. Before the practicum is begun, the graduate student must identify a sponsoring faculty member or seek permission from the student’s faculty adviser. The faculty member or adviser must sign a form that certifies that graduate credit will be granted, verifies the nature of the work to be performed by the student, and explains how the practicum helps to fulfill a degree requirement. Graded Pass/Fail.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Carroll, Chris
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Successful completion of this course counts towards the Ph.D. research requirement. This course is for second-year graduate students in the Economics Ph.D. program to obtain graduate credit for work off-campus that provides training and the development of skills in research. Before the practicum is begun, the graduate student must identify a sponsoring faculty member or seek permission from the student’s faculty adviser. The faculty member or adviser must sign a form that certifies that graduate credit will be granted, verifies the nature of the work to be performed by the student, and explains how the practicum helps to fulfill a degree requirement. Graded Pass/Fail.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Hu, Yingyao
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Advanced econometric techniques are often essential to innovative empirical work, but finding and implementing the right methods for a particular problem poses formidable challenges. This course/seminar aims to address these challenges by combining lectures and discussions of foundational econometric methods in areas of student interest (whether those interests be specific for thesis work or more speculative) with examples of implementation, including software development, in more of a ‘workshop’ environment. The emphasis will be on drawing on the resources of econometric theory to address specific empirical issues while at the same time developing implementation skills.

• Days/Times: W 1:00PM - 3:30PM
• Instructor: Spady, Richard H.
• Room: Wyman Park W603
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Successful completion of this course counts towards the Ph.D. research requirement. This course is for second-year graduate students in the Economics Ph.D. program to obtain graduate credit for work off-campus that provides training and the development of skills in research. Before the practicum is begun, the graduate student must identify a sponsoring faculty member or seek permission from the student’s faculty adviser. The faculty member or adviser must sign a form that certifies that graduate credit will be granted, verifies the nature of the work to be performed by the student, and explains how the practicum helps to fulfill a degree requirement. Graded Pass/Fail.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Chen, Ying
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Successful completion of this course counts towards the Ph.D. research requirement. This course is for second-year graduate students in the Economics Ph.D. program to obtain graduate credit for work off-campus that provides training and the development of skills in research. Before the practicum is begun, the graduate student must identify a sponsoring faculty member or seek permission from the student’s faculty adviser. The faculty member or adviser must sign a form that certifies that graduate credit will be granted, verifies the nature of the work to be performed by the student, and explains how the practicum helps to fulfill a degree requirement. Graded Pass/Fail.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Wiswall, Matthew
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Successful completion of this course counts towards the Ph.D. research requirement. This course is for second-year graduate students in the Economics Ph.D. program to obtain graduate credit for work off-campus that provides training and the development of skills in research. Before the practicum is begun, the graduate student must identify a sponsoring faculty member or seek permission from the student’s faculty adviser. The faculty member or adviser must sign a form that certifies that graduate credit will be granted, verifies the nature of the work to be performed by the student, and explains how the practicum helps to fulfill a degree requirement. Graded Pass/Fail.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Moffitt, Robert A
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Successful completion of this course counts towards the Ph.D. research requirement. This course is for second-year graduate students in the Economics Ph.D. program to obtain graduate credit for work off-campus that provides training and the development of skills in research. Before the practicum is begun, the graduate student must identify a sponsoring faculty member or seek permission from the student’s faculty adviser. The faculty member or adviser must sign a form that certifies that graduate credit will be granted, verifies the nature of the work to be performed by the student, and explains how the practicum helps to fulfill a degree requirement. Graded Pass/Fail.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Papageorge, Nicholas W
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Successful completion of this course counts towards the Ph.D. research requirement. This course is for second-year graduate students in the Economics Ph.D. program to obtain graduate credit for work off-campus that provides training and the development of skills in research. Before the practicum is begun, the graduate student must identify a sponsoring faculty member or seek permission from the student’s faculty adviser. The faculty member or adviser must sign a form that certifies that graduate credit will be granted, verifies the nature of the work to be performed by the student, and explains how the practicum helps to fulfill a degree requirement. Graded Pass/Fail.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Jeanne, Olivier
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for students working on the dissertation for the Ph.D. in Economics. It is graded pass-fail

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Duffee, Greg R
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 40/40
• PosTag(s): n/a

Successful completion of this course counts towards the Ph.D. research requirement. This course is for second-year graduate students in the Economics Ph.D. program to obtain graduate credit for work off-campus that provides training and the development of skills in research. Before the practicum is begun, the graduate student must identify a sponsoring faculty member or seek permission from the student’s faculty adviser. The faculty member or adviser must sign a form that certifies that graduate credit will be granted, verifies the nature of the work to be performed by the student, and explains how the practicum helps to fulfill a degree requirement. Graded Pass/Fail.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Krasnokutskaya, Elena
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Successful completion of this course counts towards the Ph.D. research requirement. This course is for second-year graduate students in the Economics Ph.D. program to obtain graduate credit for work off-campus that provides training and the development of skills in research. Before the practicum is begun, the graduate student must identify a sponsoring faculty member or seek permission from the student’s faculty adviser. The faculty member or adviser must sign a form that certifies that graduate credit will be granted, verifies the nature of the work to be performed by the student, and explains how the practicum helps to fulfill a degree requirement. Graded Pass/Fail.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Khan, Mohammed Ali
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Successful completion of this course counts towards the Ph.D. research requirement. This course is for second-year graduate students in the Economics Ph.D. program to obtain graduate credit for work off-campus that provides training and the development of skills in research. Before the practicum is begun, the graduate student must identify a sponsoring faculty member or seek permission from the student’s faculty adviser. The faculty member or adviser must sign a form that certifies that graduate credit will be granted, verifies the nature of the work to be performed by the student, and explains how the practicum helps to fulfill a degree requirement. Graded Pass/Fail.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Hwang, Yujung
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Successful completion of this course counts towards the Ph.D. research requirement. This course is for second-year graduate students in the Economics Ph.D. program to obtain graduate credit for work off-campus that provides training and the development of skills in research. Before the practicum is begun, the graduate student must identify a sponsoring faculty member or seek permission from the student’s faculty adviser. The faculty member or adviser must sign a form that certifies that graduate credit will be granted, verifies the nature of the work to be performed by the student, and explains how the practicum helps to fulfill a degree requirement. Graded Pass/Fail.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bianchi, Francesco
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course features lectures by economists from other universities. They present research findings at the frontier of the field. Graduate students only.

• Days/Times: T 3:30PM - 5:00PM
• Instructor: Fourakis, Stelios Stephen
• Room: Wyman Park W603
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 20/20
• PosTag(s): n/a