Course Prefix: ECON

The senior seminar is designed to provide students with a complex study of the major, including completion of a project of inquiry and research, culminating in a written thesis and oral presentation. This […]

Analysis of the theories of consumer demand, economics of time, market structure and production, externalities, welfare, and exchange. Offered alternate years.

Analysis of the determinants and theories of national income, employment, the price level, and growth. Offered alternate years.

An introduction to the analysis of economic model construction, estimation and testing, and their economic implication.

An evaluation of economic theory using experimental methods. Testing of boundaries of theories, replication of real-world incentives. Students will participate as subjects and as experimenters in their own project.

A combination of concepts of Economics and Psychology in the study of human economic behavior, the exploration of the boundaries of rationality of economic agents, and differences with classical economics.

A study of government’s role in the economy. Topics include the theoretical analysis of the demand and supply of non-market goods, impact of taxes on behavior, fiscal federalism, and voting as a market […]

A study of the theoretical concepts of international trade, monetary theory, commercial policy, and economic development.

A study and analysis of different qualitative and quantitative techniques and their roles in determining managerial/investment policy decision making.

A study of the business of sports, organization of sports leagues, ticket pricing, adverting, broadcasting rights, anti-trust, gambling, cheating, insurance, risk, and labor issues.

A study and analysis of the neoclassical approach to the demand for and supply of labor, human capital, collective bargaining, discrimination, and labor mobility.

A study of the role of money, money supply and money demand, interest rates, financial institutions, and their functions in promoting full employment, price stability, and economic growth.