PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS

Corequisites: ECON UN1155 How a market economy determines the relative prices of goods, factors of production, and the allocation of resources and the circumstances under which it does it efficiently. Why such an economy has fluctuations and how they may becontrolled.

• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Sunil K Gulati
  CULPA: 113 Info
• Instructor: Waseem Noor
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Brendan O'Flaherty
  CULPA: 64 Info
• 4 points

FED CHALLENGE WORKSHOP

Prerequisites: (ECON UN1105) The workshop prepares students to compete in the annual College Fed Challenge sponsored by the Federal Reserve. Topics covered include macroeconomic and financial conditions, monetary policy, financial stability and the Federal Reserve System.

• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Tamrat Gashaw
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 1 points

THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

Prerequisites: ECON UN1105 Covers five areas within the general field of international economics: (i) microeconomic issues of why countries trade, how the gains from trade are distributed, and protectionism; (ii) macroeconomic issues such as exchange rates, balance of payments and open economy macroeconomic adjustment, (iii) the role of international institutions (World Bank, IMF, etc); (iv) economic development and (v) economies in transition.

• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Waseem Noor
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

FINANCIAL ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and STAT UN1201 Institutional nature and economic function of financial markets. Emphasis on both domestic and international markets (debt, stock, foreign exchange, eurobond, eurocurrency, futures, options, and others). Principles of security pricing and portfolio management; the Capital Asset Pricing Model and the Efficient Markets Hypothesis.

• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Tamrat Gashaw
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

INTERMEDIATE MICROECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN1105 and MATH UN1101 and (MATH UN1201 or MATH UN1207) The determination of the relative prices of goods and factors of production and the allocation of resources.

• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Murat Yilmaz
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• Instructor: Isaac B Bjorke
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• 4 points

INTERMEDIATE MACROECONOMICS

Prerequisites: (MATH UN1101 or MATH UN1207) and ECON UN1105 or the equivalent. Corequisites: MATH UN1201 This course covers the determination of output, employment, inflation and interest rates. Topics include economic growth, business cycles, monetary and fiscal policy, consumption and savings and national income accounting.

• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Milien Gouin-Bonenfant
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• Instructor: Miles Leahey
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• Instructor: Irasema Alonso
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 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.
• Instructor: Tri Vi Dang
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 10 Info
• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMETRICS

Prerequisites: (ECON UN3211 or ECON UN3213) and (MATH UN1201 or MATH UN1207) and STAT UN1201 Modern econometric methods; the general linear statistical model and its extensions; simultaneous equations and the identification problem; time series problems; forecasting methods; extensive practice with the analysis of different types of data.

• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Seyhan Erden
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Thomas Piskula
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• Instructor: Michael C Best
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 8 Info
• 4 points

Causes and Consequences of Inequality

Causes & Consec. of Inequ

This seminar will discuss the economic causes and consequences of inequality, with a particular focus on top income and wealth inequality. We will discuss the relative role of technology, financial markets, and institutions in driving the recent rise in inequality. Seminar students are expected to actively participate in class discussions, make an in class presentation of selected readings and of original work and write a term paper on an agreed upon topic.

• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthieu Gomez
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• 3 points

ECON OF UNCERTAINTY & INFORMTN

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and STAT UN1201 Topics include behavior uncertainty, expected utility hypothesis, insurance, portfolio choice, principle agent problems, screening and signaling, and information theories of financial intermediation.

• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ingmar O Nyman
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED MICROECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and MATH UN2010 Students must register for required discussion section. Corequisites: MATH UN2500 or MATH GU4061 The course provides a rigorous introduction to microeconomics. Topics will vary with the instructor but will include consumer theory, producer theory, general equilibrium and welfare, social choice theory, game theory and information economics. This course is strongly recommended for students considering graduate work in economics. Discussion section required.

• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Susan M Elmes
  CULPA: 44 Info
• 4 points

ECONOMICS OF NEW YORK CITY

ECONOMICS OF NYC

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and STAT Un1201 This course takes New York as our laboratory. Economics is about individual choice subject to constraints and the ways that choices sum up to something often much more than the parts. The fundamental feature of any city is the combination of those forces that bring people together and those that push them apart. Thus both physical and social space will be central to our discussions. The underlying theoretical and empirical analysis will touch on spatial aspects of urban economics, regional, and even international economics. We will aim to see these features in New York City taken as a whole, as well as in specific neighborhoods of the city. We will match these theoretical and empirical analyses with readings that reflect close observation of specific subjects. The close observation is meant to inspire you to probe deeply into a topic in order that the tools and approaches of economics may illuminate these issues in a fresh way.

• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Donald R Davis
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 31 Info
• 3 points

INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 The study of industrial behavior based on game-theoretic oligopoly models. Topics include pricing models, strategic aspects of business practice, vertical integration, and technological innovation.

• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Pietro Tebaldi
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• 3 points

MARKET DESIGN

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and STAT UN1201 This course uses modern microeconomic tools for understanding markets for indivisible resources and exploring ways to improve their design in terms of stability, efficiency and incentives. Lessons of market design will be applied to developing internet platforms for intermediating exchanges, for auctions to allocate sponsored search advertising, to allocate property rights such as public lands, radio spectrums, fishing rights, for assigning students to public schools, and for developing efficient kidney exchanges for transplantation.

• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Murat Yilmaz
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• 3 points

CORPORATE FINANCE

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and STAT UN1201 An introduction to the economics principles underlying the financial decisions of firms. The topics covered include bond and stock valuations, capital budgeting, dividend policy, market efficiency, risk valuation, and risk management. For information regarding REGISTRATION for this course, go to: http://econ.columbia.edu/registration-information.

• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Haran Segram
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• Instructor: Tri Vi Dang
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 10 Info
• 3 points

GAME THEORY

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 Introduction to the systematic treatment of game theory and its applications in economic analysis.

• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Evan D Sadler
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• 3 points

PUBLIC ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 Types of market failures and rationales for government intervention in the economy. Benefit-cost analysis and the theory of public goods. Positive and normative aspects of taxation. The U.S. tax structure.

• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Timothy Goodspeed
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• 3 points

INTERNATIONAL MACROECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213. Econ GU4505 is an

elective in the economics major. The course develops models for the

analysis of the determinants of international capital flows, trade

imbalances, and exchange rates. The models are then used as the basis

for the discussion of topics such as Global Imbalances, Uncertainty and

the Current Account, The Global Saving Glut, Purchasing Power Parity,

Sudden Stops, Real Exchange Rates and Productivity, Covered Interest

Rate Parity, Uncovered Interest Rate Parity, Borrowing Externalities and

Optimal Capital Controls, Overborrowing,  Macroeconomic Adjustment under

Flexible and Fixed Exchange Rates,  Twin Deficits, and Balance of

Payment Crises.

• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Martin Uribe
  CULPA: 16 Wikipedia h-index: 52 Info
• 3 points

Climate Finance

In lieu of the failure of legislatures to pass comprehensive carbon taxes, there is growing pressure on the financial system to address the risks of global warming.  One set of pressures is to account for the heightened physical risks due to extreme weather events and potential climate tipping points.  Another set of pressures are to find approaches to incentivize corporations to meet the goals set out in the Paris Treaty of 2015.  These approaches include (1) mandates or restrictions to only hold companies with decarbonization plans, (2) development of negative emissions technologies such as direct-air capture and (3) promotion of natural capital markets that can be used to offset carbon emissions.  Moreover, financial markets also provide crucial information on expectations and plans of economic agents regarding climate change.  This course will cover both models and empirical methodologies that are necessary to assess the role of the financial system in addressing global warming.

• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• 3 points

FINANCE AND THE REAL ECONOMY

Prerequisites: (Econ UN3211) and (ECON UN3213) and (STAT UN1201) This course uses economic theory and empirical evidence to study the links between financial markets and the real economy. We will consider questions such as: What is the welfare role of finance? How do financial markets affect consumers and firms? How do shocks to the financial system transmit to the real economy? How do financial markets impact inequality?

• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Matthieu Gomez
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• 3 points

GLOBALIZATION & ITS RISKS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 The world is being transformed by dramatic increases in flows of people, goods and services across nations. Globalization has the potential for enormous gains but is also associated to serious risks. The gains are related to international commerce where the industrial countries dominate, while the risks involve the global environment, poverty and the satisfaction of basic needs that affect in great measure the developing nations. Both are linked to a historical division of the world into the North and the South-the industrial and the developing nations. Key to future evolution are (1) the creation of new markets that trade privately produced public goods, such as knowledge and greenhouse gas emissions, as in the Kyoto Protocol; (2) the updating of the Breton Woods Institutions, including the creation of a Knowledge Bank and an International Bank for Environmental Settlements.

• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Graciela Chichilnisky
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info
• 3 points

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 Within economics, the standard model of behavior is that of a perfectly rational, self interested utility maximizer with unlimited cognitive resources. In many cases, this provides a good approximation to the types of behavior that economists are interested in. However, over the past 30 years, experimental and behavioral economists have documented ways in which the standard model is not just wrong, but is wrong in ways that are important for economic outcomes. Understanding these behaviors, and their implications, is one of the most exciting areas of current economic inquiry. The aim of this course is to provide a grounding in the main areas of study within behavioral economics, including temptation and self control, fairness and reciprocity, reference dependence, bounded rationality and choice under risk and uncertainty. For each area we will study three things: 1. The evidence that indicates that the standard economic model is missing some important behavior 2. The models that have been developed to capture these behaviors 3. Applications of these models to (for example) finance, labor and development economics As well as the standard lectures, homework assignments, exams and so on, you will be asked to participate in economic experiments, the data from which will be used to illustrate some of the principals in the course. There will also be a certain small degree of classroom ‘flipping’, with a portion of many lectures given over to group problem solving. Finally, an integral part of the course will be a research proposal that you must complete by the end of the course, outlining a novel piece of research that you would be interested in doing.

• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Dean
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 26 Info
• 3 points

MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR

SEMINAR-MICROECONIMIC THEORY

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412  Selected topics in microeconomics. 

• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Murat Yilmaz
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• 4 points

MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR

SPORTS ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412  Selected topics in microeconomics. 

• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sunil K Gulati
  CULPA: 113 Info
• 4 points

MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR

GLOBALIAZATION AND ITS RISKS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412  Selected topics in microeconomics. 

• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Graciela Chichilnisky
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info
• 4 points

MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412  Selected topics in microeconomics. 

• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Douglas V Almond
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• 4 points

MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR

SEMINAR-MICROECONIMIC THEORY

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412  Selected topics in microeconomics. 

• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Brendan O'Flaherty
  CULPA: 64 Info
• 4 points

MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR

ECONOMICS & ANTITRUST

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412  Selected topics in microeconomics. 

• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew E Abere
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• 4 points

MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412  Selected topics in microeconomics. 

• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Rosanne Altshuler
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• 4 points

MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR

THE ECONOMICS OF INFORMATION

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412  Selected topics in microeconomics. 

• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew Kosenko
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

MACROECONOMICS SEMINAR

INT'L MONETARY ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 Registration information is posted on the departments Seminar Sign-up webpage. Selected topics in macroeconomics. Selected topics will be posted on the departments webpage.

• R 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Richard H Clarida
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

MACROECONOMICS SEMINAR

BEHAVIORAL INSIGHTS INTO ECONO

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 Registration information is posted on the departments Seminar Sign-up webpage. Selected topics in macroeconomics. Selected topics will be posted on the departments webpage.

• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• 4 points

MACROECONOMICS SEMINAR

TOPICS IN ENVIRONMENTALSOCIAL

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 Registration information is posted on the departments Seminar Sign-up webpage. Selected topics in macroeconomics. Selected topics will be posted on the departments webpage.

• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Tamrat Gashaw
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

SEMINAR IN ECONOMETRICS

TPCS:MACROECONOMICS & FINANCE

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 and sign-up in the departments office. Registration information is posted on the departments Seminar Sign-up webpage. Analyzing data in a more in-depth fashion than in ECON UN3412. Additional estimation techniques include limited dependent variable and simultaneous equation models. Go to the departments undergraduate Seminar Description webpage for a detailed description.

• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Seyhan Erden
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

SEMINAR IN POLITICAL ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON W3211, W3213, W3412 (or POLS 4711), W4370. Registration information is posted on the departments Seminar Sign-up webpage. Required for majors in the joint program between political science and economics. Provides a forum in which students can integrate the economics and political science approach to political economy. The theoretical tools learned in political economy are applied: the analysis of a historical episode and the empirical relation between income distribution and politics on one side and growth on the other.

• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Carlo Prato
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• Instructor: Claudia Halbac
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• 4 points

SENIOR HONORS THESIS WORKSHOP

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 and the director of the departmental honors programs permission. Students must have a minimum GPA of 3.7 in all required major courses, including calculus and statistics, prior to enrollment. The honors thesis seminar is a year-long course, beginning in the fall semester and ending in the spring semester. Students who have been approved to enter the workshop will be registered for both semesters by the department during the first two weeks of classes; 3 points are earned per semester. This workshop may only be taken by students applying for departmental honors, and it also fulfills the economics seminar requirement for the economics major and all joint majors. Students must see the director during mid-semester registration in the spring to discuss their proposed thesis topic, at which time they will be matched with appropriate faculty who will act as their thesis adviser. Students will meet their adviser over the course of the year at mutually agreed upon times. A rough draft of the thesis will be due during the first week of February in the spring semester, and the final draft will be due three weeks before the last day of classes. Please note that for those joint majors that require two seminars, one in economics and one in the other discipline (i.e. Political Science), the economics senior honors thesis seminar only fulfills the economics seminar requirement.

• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lena Edlund
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II-DISC

Corequisites: ECON GR5215 Discussion Section for Economics MA Course Microeconomics Analysis II.

• F 10:10 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
• Instructor: Sangjun Park
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• 0 points

MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II-DISC

MICROECNMCS ANALYSIS II-D

Corequisites: ECON GR5215 Discussion Section for Economics MA Course Microeconomics Analysis II.

• T 10:30 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Steve Yeh
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• 0 points

MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II-DISC

• M 6:10 p.m.-7:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Pablo de Llanos Artero
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• 0 points

MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II-DISC

MACROECNMCS ANALYSIS II-D

• W 6:10 p.m.-7:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Yuyang Miao
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• 0 points

ECONOMETRICS II-DISC

• M 10:30 a.m.-noon
• T 12:10 p.m.-1:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Gabriel Gonzalez Sutil
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• Instructor: Shizuka Inoue
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• 0 points

MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II

• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Guillaume Haeringer
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

MACROECONOMCS ANALYSIS II

• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Irasema Alonso
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 3 points

Industrial Organization

This is a topics course in industrial organization intended for MA students. The focus of the class is to familiarize students with the way economists in academic, antitrust regulatory and private sector settings approach research questions related to topics such as conduct, pricing, competition or ownership and control in various market structures (e.g., homogenous product, differentiated product, two-sided, vertical markets). The goal of the course is threefold. For each of the market structures considered:
(i)
familiarize you with the foundational economic theories;
(ii)
provide you with the empirical tools you can apply in the future to conduct your own research; and
(iii)
introduce to you key antitrust issues regulators have been focusing on and approaches used in practice to analyze these issues by antitrust economists.

• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Ildiko Magyari
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• 3 points

ECONOMETRICS II

• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Bernard Salanie
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• 3 points

FINANCIAL ECONOMICS

• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Pedro Tremacoldi Rossi
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• 3 points

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS

• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Sebastian Heise
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• 3 points

MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II-DISC

• W 6:30 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Zhiming Feng
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• 0 points

MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II-DISC

• T 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Ankit Bhutani
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• 0 points

MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II

Prerequisites: the director of graduate studies permission. Corequisites: ECON G6410. Consumer and producer behavior; general competitive equilibrium, welfare and efficiency, behavior under uncertainty, intertemporal allocation and capital theory, imperfect competition, elements of game theory, problems of information, economies with price rigidities.

• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• 4 points

MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II

Prerequisites: the director of graduate studies permission. Concept of full employment. Models of underemployment and theory applicability, determinants of consumption and of investment, multiplier and accelerator analysis, an introduction to monetary macroeconomics, the supply side and inflation. Integration of macroeconomics with microeconomic and monetary analysis.

• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• 4 points

ADV MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II

Prerequisites: ECON G6216 and G6412, or the instructor's permission. This course deals with business cycle theories and methods for evaluating such theories. The course extends the canonical real business cycle model to analyze models with cyclical variation in markups, models of endogenous fluctuations, and models of news-driven short-run fluctuations. Attention is given to numerical methods to approximate the dynamics implied by stochastic general equilibrium models, with particular emphasis given to perturbation methods. The course will also include an operational introduction to full and limited-information approaches to the estimation of DSGE models.

• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Hassan Afrouzi Khosroshahi
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• 3 points

Dynamic Games

This course will focus on the game-theoretic study of long-run relationships. My
goal is to equip you to (i) create tractable models appropriate for studying whatever
applied settings interest you, and (ii) study such interactions in detail. Toward that
goal, we'll talk about important papers that develop the state of the art in dynamic
modeling, papers that point to subtleties/complexity in the study of dynamic and
repeated games, and papers that sidestep the latter to address speci?c applied questions.
See the course outline below for a list of topics we'll cover, together with the
speci?c papers that will come up along the way. We will cover some classic papers,
but more recent work is (deliberately) overrepresented here. Of course, this list of
topics and papers is not meant to be comprehensive, but I hope it will be a useful,
brief tour of the literature.
This class being a topics course, familiarity with basic tools of economic theory
and game theory that were covered in the ?rst-year micro sequence is essential.

• T 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Elliot B Lipnowski
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• 3 points

TOPICS-INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION

• F 2:20 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Doval
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• 3 points

INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION II

Prerequisites: ECON G6211 and ECON G6212. This course provides an overview of topics in industrial organization (IO) economics. Its goals are to survey the main outlines of modern IO, to develop key theoretical ideas, to demonstrate important techniques, to link theory to empirical work, and to relate theoretical and empirical results to policy issues. Empirical two-period models. Empirical single-agent and multiple-agent dynamic models.

• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Pietro Tebaldi
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• 3 points

INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT

Prerequisites: ECON G6211, ECON G6212 or the instructor's permission. Survey of recent microeconomic work on firm behavior in developing countries, with a primarily empirical focus. Topics include: credit constraints, contracting frictions, reputations and networks, learning and technology adoption, agency issues within firms, productivity estimation, international dimensions of firms behavior, and debates around industrial policy.

 

• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Eric A Verhoogen
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• 3 points

PUB ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT

Prerequisites: (ECON GR6211) and (ECON GR6212) and (ECON GR6215) and (ECON GR6216) and (ECON GR6411) and (ECON GR6412) and This course covers a range of challenges faced by governments in low- and middle-income countries. The course will cover both applied theory papers and empirical papers applying the latest empirical methods.

• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Michael C Best
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO ECONOMETRICS II-DISC

• R 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Laura K Caron
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• 0 points

INTRODUCTN TO ECONOMETRICS II

Corequisites: ECON G6410 and the director of graduate studies permission. Introduction to the general linear model and its use in econometrics, including the consequences of departures from the standard assumptions.

• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• 4 points

ECONOMETRICS IV

This is the second course of the second year PhD econometrics sequence with emphasis on both economic applications and computationally intense methods for analysis of large and/or complex models. Students can attend the whole sequence or only one of them. While the details of the econometric techniques will be discussed extensively, the core and focus of the course is on the applications of these techniques to the study of actual data. Students will be practiced in econometric methods through computer-based exercises. Prerequisites: Students should have a good understanding of graduate econometrics and should have taken ECON G6411 and G6412.

• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Simon Lee
  h-index: 28 Info
• 3 points

GAME THRY WITH ECONMC APPLICTN

• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Qingmin Liu
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

Climate Finance

This graduate course will develop both models and empirical methods that are necessary to assess the role of the financial system in addressing the risks of global warming.  The course will take a continuous-time approach and feature financial markets that provide crucial information on expectations and plans of economic agents regarding climate change.  After a primer on continuous time methods and stochastic growth models, we will cover a number of topics including: an asset pricing approach to integrated assessment models, pricing natural capital such as tropical rain forecasts, mitigation of weather disaster risks that are becoming more frequent with global warming, sustainable finance mandates in fostering the transition of the industrial sector to net-zero emissions, corporate adaptation strategies to heatwaves, and integrating climate tipping points and financial frictions into assessments.

• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• 3 points

NATURAL RESOURCE & ENVIR ECON

• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Graciela Chichilnisky
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info
• 3 points

THE ECONOMICS OF LABOR II

• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Tatiana Mocanu
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• 3 points

Experimental Economics

A PhD course on experimental economics will cover various topics that have been
explored using experimental economics including: other regarding preferences,
charitable giving, public goods, individual decision making, cognitive limitations,
motivated reasoning, market design, and gender. While the instructor will expose
students to high-quality experimental work across these topics, the main focus of the
class will be on experimental methodology to give students insight into how they can run
their own experiments on these and other topics. Additional course lectures will cover:
the history of experimental economics, preference elicitation strategies, large scale
RCTs, nudges, and partnering with organizations for research. Finally, the course will
cover debates in experimental economics including those surrounding lab vs. field
experiments, subject populations, and replication. The course is geared towards getting
PhD students to actually start producing their own experimental research. Students will
be asked to produce two short assignments: one proposing a lab experiment and one
proposing a field experiment. In addition, the final project for the course will ask
students to write up a longer proposal for an experiment the student might actually
consider running and to prepare a slide deck about the proposed project. The final
lecture of the course will have students present their proposed designs, allowing
students to receive feedback from their classmates.

• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Judd Kessler
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• 3 points

TOPICS IN ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY

Topics in Economic Geography

• W 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Donald R Davis
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• 3 points

PERSPECTIVES ON ECON STUDIES-DISC

• F 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Nikhil Basavappa
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• 0 points

PERSPECTVS ON ECONOMIC STUDIES

Prerequisites: ECON G6412, ECON G6411, ECON G6215, ECON G6211. Corequisites: ECON G6212, ECON G6216, ECON G6412. This course will critically examine mainstream approaches to economic theory and practice, particularly in the areas of macroeconomic stabilization policy, poverty reduction, economic development, environmental sustainability, and racial and gender inequality. Topics will vary from year to year, but may include responses to the credit crisis and Great Recession, global warming and international negotiations, globalization, the measurement of poverty and inequality, different approaches to poverty reduction, AIDS and malaria, mass imprisonment, childrens wellbeing, the IMF and the World Bank, intellectual property in an international context, racial disparities in life expectancy, public pension systems in developed countries, health care, and homelessness. The course will also examine biases in economic discourse, both among policy makers and scholars.

• TR 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• 4 points

ECONOMETRICS COLLOQUIUM

Prerequisites: ECON G6411 and G6412. Students will make presentations of original research.

• W noon-1 p.m.
• 2 points

ECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS COLLOQ

Prerequisites: G6215 and G6216. Open-economy macroeconomics, computational methods for dynamic equilibrium analysis, and sources of business cycles.

• M 1 p.m.-2 p.m.
• 2 points

COLLOQUIUM IN DEVELOPMENT

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Students will make presentations of original research.

• F noon-1 p.m.
• 2 points

COLL IN INDUST ORGANIZATION

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Students will make presentations of original research.

• M 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• 2 points

COLL IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• W noon-1 p.m.
• 2 points

MICROECONOMIC THEORY COLLOQ

Prerequisites: G6215, G6216, G6211, G6212, G6411, G6412. Students will make presentation of original research in Microeconomics.

• W 1 p.m.-2 p.m.
• 2 points

Labor & Public Finance colloquium

APPLIED MICROECON RES METHODS

Prerequisites: G6215, G6216, G6211, G6212, G6411, G6412. Students will make presentations of original research in Microeconomics.

• W 1 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Suresh Naidu
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• 2 points

FINANCIAL ECONOMICS COLLOQUIUM

• T noon-1 p.m.
• 2 points

ECONOMIC THEORY

• M 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
• 0 points

MONEY & MACROECONOMCS WORKSHOP

• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 0 points

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS

• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: David Weinstein
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• 0 points

DEVPT & ENVIRON ECON WORKSHOP

• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 0 points

ECONOMETRICS WORKSHOP

• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 0 points

INDUSTRIAL ORG WORKSHOP

• T 2:15 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 0 points

Labor and Public Economics Workshop

APPLIED MICROECONOMCS WORKSHOP

Columbia faculty and guest speakers present research related to Labor and Public Economics. 

• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 0 points

Political Economy Workshop

• T noon-1:30 p.m.
• 0 points