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 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alan Dye
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Instructor:
Mulu Gebreyohannes
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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 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Sharon Harrison
CULPA: 38
h-index: 13
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Instructor:
Mulu Gebreyohannes
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CODING MARKETS
Prerequisites: (ECON BC1003 or ECON UN1105) Students will learn how to write computer programs that can be used to solve assignment problems, including matching buyers with sellers in electronic financial markets, as well as assignment problems that dont involve prices: matching organ donors with recipients, residents with hospitals, and students with high schools for example. The programming language used will be MATLAB. Suitable for students with little or no programming background.
- M 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Rajiv Sethi
CULPA: 24
h-index: 33
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ACCOUNTING & FINANCE FOR ECONOMICS
This course will introduce the fundamental concepts of accounting and finance to economics students. The accounting component of the course will focus on financial accounting, and the finance component of the course will focus on issues relating to corporate financing Whenever possible, the discussion of each concept encountered in the course will include an examination of real-world examples of firms’ financial statements and decisions. Students’ learning objectives are:
the preparation and interpretation of financial statements for external decision makers
understanding the capital structure and dividend policies of firms
the valuation of financial instruments
capital budgeting (strategies and analytical methods for the evaluation of investment projects)
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jose Cao-Alvira
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
THE ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION
Prerequisites: ECON BC3035 and ECON BC2411 or permission of the instructor. Analyzes education policies and education markets from an economic perspective. Examines challenges that arise when researchers attempt to identify the causal effects of inputs. Other topics: (1) education as an investment, (2) public school finance, (3) teacher labor markets, (4) testing/accountability programs, (5) school choice programs, and (6) urban public school reforms.
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Randall Reback
CULPA: 17 h-index: 14 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.
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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MIGRATION & ECONOMIC CHANGE
Prerequisites: (Econ BC 3035) or (Econ BC 3033) This course examines a wide variety of topics about migration and its relationship to economic development, globalization, and social and economic mobility. At its core, this course reflects a key reality: that the movement of people--within regions, within countries, and across borders--is both the result of and impetus for economic change.
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ashley Timmer
CULPA: 1 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.
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elham Saeidinezhad
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Instructor:
Jose Cao-Alvira
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
Economic History of Global Capitalism
ECON HIST OF GLOBAL CAPIT
The course is an introduction to the economic developments that gave rise to capitalist economies and economic globalization from 1500 to the 20th century. We apply economic and empirical reasoning to examine many transformations that have shaped the economies of the modern era—demographic, technological, and institutional changes. We compare the rise of Europe and other Eurasian civilizations, especially China. We examine the role of slavery and imperialism in global economic integration. We examine how the rise of modern capitalism influenced human material well-being and conflict and has led to the convergence and divergence of nations in the global economy.
INTERMEDIATE MACROECONOMICS
Prerequisites: An introductory course in economics and a functioning knowledge of high school algebra and analytical geometry or permission of the instructor. Systematic exposition of current macroeconomic theories of unemployment, inflation, and international financial adjustments.
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- 4 points
INTERMEDIATE MICROECONOMICS
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.
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Instructor:
Lalith Munasinghe
CULPA: 33 Info - 4 points
INTERNATIONAL MONEY & FINANCE
Prerequisites: ECON BC3033. Introduction to balance of payments and exchange rate theory; capital mobility and expectations; internal and external adjustment under fixed and flexible exchange rates; international financial markets; capital mobility and expectations; international policy coordination and optimum currency areas; history of the international monetary system.
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jose Cao-Alvira
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
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.
Monetary Theory & Policy
MONETARY THEORY & POLICY
This course deals with topics in both monetary theory and monetary policy and is designed for students interested in monetary economics and/or those aiming at working in policy institutions such as central banks. Monetary economics examines the relationship between real economic variables at the aggregate level and nominal variables (such as the inflation rate, nominal interest rates, nominal exchange rates, and the supply of money). Therefore, monetary economics overlaps significantly with macroeconomics. However, students in this class learn the "Money View" framework as their analytical tool as it provides a more in-depth treatment of money and central banking than is customary
in standard macroeconomics textbooks.
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elham Saeidinezhad
CULPA: 5 Info - 3 points
Introduction to Behavioral Economics
INTRO TO BEHAVIORAL ECON
This course reviews the assumption of rationality in microeconomic theory and presents evidence (primarily from experimental psychology and economics) of how judgement and decision-making systematically deviate from what rationality predicts.
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Jeffrey Carpenter
Info - 3 points
SENIOR THESIS II
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 2nd semester of a two-semester course sequence.
- M noon-2 p.m.
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth O Ananat
CULPA: 2 h-index: 18 Info -
Instructor:
Kurt Semm
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Instructor:
Sharon Harrison
CULPA: 38
h-index: 13
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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.
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lalith Munasinghe
CULPA: 33 Info -
Instructor:
Elham Saeidinezhad
CULPA: 5 Info -
Instructor:
Rajiv Sethi
CULPA: 24
h-index: 33
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- 4 points
RESEARCH SEM ECONOMIC HIST II
Must be supervised by a faculty member approved by te program adviser. This is the 2nd semester of a two-semester course sequence.