INTRO TO ECONOMIC REASONING
Covers basic elements of microeconomic and marcoeconomic reasoning at an introductory level. Topics include Individual Constraints and Preferences, Production by Firms, Market Transactions, Competition, The Distribution of Income, Technological Progress and Growth, Unemployment and Inflation, the Role of Government in the Economy. Note: Students cannot get credit for ECON BC1003 if they have taken the Columbia introductory course ECON W1105 Principles of Economics.
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Homa S Zarghamee
CULPA: 17
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Instructor:
Rajiv Sethi
CULPA: 24
h-index: 33
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MATH METHODS FOR ECONOMICS
Covers basic mathematical methods required for intermediate theory courses and upper level electives in economics, with a strong emphasis on applications. Topics include simultaneous equations, functions, partial differentiation, optimization of functions of more than one variable, constrained optimization, and financial mathematics. This course satisfies the Calculus requirement for the Barnard Economics major. NOTE: students who have previously taken Intermediate Micro Theory (ECON BC3035 or the equivalent) are *not* allowed to take Math Methods for Economics.
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Mulu Gebreyohannes
Info - 4 points
INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH ECONOMICS
INTRO TO HEALTH ECONOMICS
Prerequisites: (ECON BC1003 or ECON UN1105) This course covers the core microeconomic theories and concepts needed to understand health and health care issues in the United States. It describes how the markets for health and health services are different from those for other goods, with an emphasis on providing the tools and skills for understanding health policy and regulations. In addition, it discusses theoretical and empirical aspects of key health economics issues, with a primary focus on applying the tools of economic analysis to understand the basic forces—supply and demand, asymmetric information, incentives, and externalities, for example—that influence health policies.
- TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rena J Rosenberg
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
STATISTICS FOR ECONOMICS
Elementary computational methods in statistics. Basic techniques in regression analysis of econometric models. One-hour weekly recitation sessions to complement lectures.
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Randall Reback
CULPA: 17 h-index: 14 Info - 4 points
INEQUALITY AND POVERTY
Prerequisites: ECON BC3035 or ECON BC3033, or permission of the instructor. Conceptualization and measurement of inequality and poverty, poverty traps and distributional dynamics, economics and politics of public policies, in both poor and rich countries.
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ashley Timmer
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
ECONOMIC HISTORY-UNITED STATES
Prerequisites: ECON BC3035 or ECON BC3033, or permission of the instructor. Economic transformation of the United States from a small, open agrarian society in the late colonial era to the leading industrial economy of the 20th century. Emphasis is given to the quantitative, institutional, and spatial dimensions of economic growth, and the relationship between the changing structures of the economy and state.
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
David Weiman
CULPA: 40 Info - 3 points
ECONOMETRICS
Prerequisites: ECON BC3033 or ECON BC3035, and ECON BC2411 or STAT W1111 or STAT W1211, or permission of the instructor. Specification, estimation and evaluation of economic relationships using economic theory, data, and statistical inference; testable implications of economic theories; econometric analysis of topics such as consumption, investment, wages and unemployment, and financial markets.
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Morgan C Jr. Williams
Info - 4 points
LABOR ECONOMICS
Prerequisites: ECON BC3035, or permission of the instructor. Factors affecting the allocation and remuneration of labor; population structure; unionization and monopsony; education and training, mobility and information; sex and race discrimination; unemployment; and public policy.
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lalith Munasinghe
CULPA: 33 Info - 3 points
ECON OF THE PUBLIC SECTOR
Prerequisites: (ECON BC3035 or ECON UN3211) The purpose of the course is to think about public policy issues through an economic lens. We will explore the basic economic foundations of individual decision-making and discuss the ways in which economists hypothesize that individuals respond to the incentives embedded within public policies. We will pay particular attention to the nature and detail of existing public policies, and use economic analysis to predict how these policies might influence behavior. We will also explore some of the relevant empirical literature on a set of policy topics, to see how these predictions hold up.
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth O Ananat
CULPA: 2 h-index: 18 Info - 3 points
INTERMEDTE MACROECONOMC THEORY
(Description for summer and semester course)
This course introduces macroeconomic theory for the analysis of aggregate variables such as income, employment, prices, and the interest rate. The first part of the course is devoted to studying the determination of the aggregate demand in the goods markets and the equilibrium of monetary markets, using an IS-LM model extended with elements of the banking sector and the open-economy framework. Next, the supply-side of the economy is examined with special attention to the labor market, wage setting and price setting behavior. The Phillips Curve (PC) introduces the tradeoffs between inflation and unemployment, and the role of expectations for inflation dynamics. The integrated IS-LM-PC model is then used to evaluate macroeconomic policies that aim at stabilizing the economy with output produced at its potential level
and the inflation rate at the central bank target. The recent episode of high inflation is simulated with a proper numerical calibration of the IS-LM-PC model.
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Martina Jasova
CULPA: 7
h-index: 7
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INTERMEDTE MICROECONOMC THEORY
Prerequisites: An introductory course in microeconomics or a combined macro/micro principles course (ECON BC1003 or ECON W1105, or the equivalent) and one semester of calculus or ECON BC1007, or permission of the instructor. Preferences and demand; production, cost, and supply; behavior of markets in partial equilibrium; resource allocation in general equilibrium; pricing of goods and services under alternative market structures; implications of individual decision-making for labor supply; income distribution, welfare, and public policy. Emphasis on problem solving.
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lalith Munasinghe
CULPA: 33 Info -
Instructor:
Elizabeth O Ananat
CULPA: 2 h-index: 18 Info - 4 points
ENVIRONMENTAL & NATURAL RESOURCE ECONOMI
ENVRNMTL & NTRL RESOURCE
Prerequisites: ECON BC1003 or ECON W1105. Prerequisite for Economics majors: ECON BC3035. Link between economic behavior and environmental quality: valuation of non-market benefits of pollution abatement; emissions standards; taxes; and transferable discharge permits. Specific problems of hazardous waste; the distribution of hazardous pollutants across different sub-groups of the U.S. population; the exploitation of commonly owned natural resources; and the links between the environment, income distribution, and economic development.
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Belinda Archibong
CULPA: 8
h-index: 7
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THEORETICL FOUNDTNS-POLIT ECON
Prerequisites: An introductory course in economics or permission of the instructor. Intellectual origins of the main schools of thought in political economy. Study of the founding texts in classical political economy, Marxian economics, neoclassicism, and Keynesianism.
- TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Belinda Archibong
CULPA: 8
h-index: 7
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SENIOR THESIS I
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and completion of all courses (except for the senior requirement) required for the economics track, political economy track, or economics and mathematics majors. Exceptions to these prerequisites may be granted by the chair of the department only. Tutorials and conferences on the research for and writing of the senior thesis. This is the 1st semester of a two-semester course sequence.
- T 11 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
- M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Elizabeth O Ananat
CULPA: 2 h-index: 18 Info -
Instructor:
Martina Jasova
CULPA: 7
h-index: 7
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Instructor:
Belinda Archibong
CULPA: 8
h-index: 7
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- 4 points
SENIOR SEMINAR
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and the completion of all courses (except for the senior requirement) required for the economics track, political economy track, or economics and mathematics majors. Exceptions to these prerequisites may be granted by the chair of the department only. Seminar sections are limited to 15 students. A topic in economic theory or policy of the instructors choice. See department for current topics and for senior requirement preference forms.
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rajiv Sethi
CULPA: 24
h-index: 33
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- 4 points
SENIOR SEMINAR
SR SEM:WMN IN DEVLOPMNT ECON
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and the completion of all courses (except for the senior requirement) required for the economics track, political economy track, or economics and mathematics majors. Exceptions to these prerequisites may be granted by the chair of the department only. Seminar sections are limited to 15 students. A topic in economic theory or policy of the instructors choice. See department for current topics and for senior requirement preference forms.
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Anja Tolonen
CULPA: 3 h-index: 8 Info - 4 points
SENIOR SEMINAR
SR SEM:US RACE/CRIME/INCR PLCY
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and the completion of all courses (except for the senior requirement) required for the economics track, political economy track, or economics and mathematics majors. Exceptions to these prerequisites may be granted by the chair of the department only. Seminar sections are limited to 15 students. A topic in economic theory or policy of the instructors choice. See department for current topics and for senior requirement preference forms.
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Morgan C Jr. Williams
Info - 4 points
SENIOR SEMINAR
SR SEM:FUTURE CENTRAL BANKING
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and the completion of all courses (except for the senior requirement) required for the economics track, political economy track, or economics and mathematics majors. Exceptions to these prerequisites may be granted by the chair of the department only. Seminar sections are limited to 15 students. A topic in economic theory or policy of the instructors choice. See department for current topics and for senior requirement preference forms.
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elham Saeidinezhad
CULPA: 5 Info - 4 points
RESEARCH SEM ECONOMIC HISTRY I
Must be supervised by a faculty member approved by the program adviser. This is the 1st semester of a two-semester course sequence.
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
David Weiman
CULPA: 40 Info - 4 points
GUIDED RESEARCH IN ECONOMICS
Prerequisites: Instructors permission Provides students with the experience of participating in the research process by matching them to a faculty mentor who will put them to work on one of his or her current research projects.
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Instructor:
Belinda Archibong
CULPA: 8
h-index: 7
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Instructor:
Martina Jasova
CULPA: 7
h-index: 7
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- 1-2 points
INDEPENDENT STUDY
Prerequisites: ECON BC3033 or ECON BC3035 or permission of the instructor. Topic(s), requirements, workload and point value to be determined in consultation with faculty advisor. Forms available at the Office of the Registrar.
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Instructor:
Elham Saeidinezhad
CULPA: 5 Info -
Instructor:
Mulu Gebreyohannes
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Instructor:
Lalith Munasinghe
CULPA: 33 Info -
Instructor:
Ashley Timmer
CULPA: 1 Info -
Instructor:
Randall Reback
CULPA: 17 h-index: 14 Info -
Instructor:
Rajiv Sethi
CULPA: 24
h-index: 33
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- 1-4 points
MONEY AND BANKING
Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 or the equivalent. Introduction to the principles of money and banking. The intermediary institutions of the American economy and their historical developments, current issues in monetary and financial reform.
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elham Saeidinezhad
CULPA: 5 Info - 3 points