This half-semester course extends the valuation techniques introduced in INAF U6301 by considering several issues in corporate finance that are of particular interest to international affairs students: leverage and valuation techniques: WACC, APV and FTE; the international cost of capital and international capital budgeting; the analysis of real options. The course will combine lecture time and in-class case discussions. The goal of the course is to provide students with an understanding of both sound theoretical principles of finance and the practical environment in which financial decisions are made.
A course on contemporary transatlantic economic relations with particular emphasis on the US-EU dimension. Topics include: the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP); the international implications of the Greek crisis; dollar-euro diplomacy and the international roles of the dollar and euro; emerging disputes surrounding EU regulation of U.S. high tech firms such as Facebook, Apple, Google and Amazon; relative macroeconomic performance and why most of Europe can't get its unemployment levels down to U.S. levels; the economic dimension to transatlantic security arrangements.
Sec. 1: Ethnomusicology; Sec. 2: Historical Musicology; Sec. 3: Music Theory; Sec. 4: Music Cognition; Sec. 5: Music Philosophy.
Firms-from microenterprises to multinationals-play a central role in growth and poverty reduction. Their investment decisions are central to create jobs, to provide goods and services to the economy, and the tax revenues the governments can draw on to fund health, education and other services. The World Bank's World Development Report 2005: A Better Investment Climate for Everyone argues that improving the investment climates of their societies should be a top priority for governments. Improving the investment climate is the first of the two pillars in the World Bank's overall development strategy. This course emphasizes issues and policies that are particularly relevant for the growth of the private sector in developing countries in a globalized world. The course also emphasizes the role of international organizations in providing assistance in this regard. The objectives of the course are the following:(1)to highlight the importance of improving the investment climate -to learn about the factors that shapes the opportunities and incentives for firms to invest productively and for governments to create the right conditions for them to create jobs and expand (2) to familiarize students with the role of international organizations in helping to remove distortions and in providing assistance and knowledge (3)to provide an opportunity for students to discuss and write country reports along the lines of those produced in international organizations.
Prerequisite: Public Health P6103 or P6104. The study of linear statistical models. Regression and correlation with one independent variable. Partial and multiple correlation. Multiple and polynomial regression. Single factor analysis of variance. Simple logistic regression
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faculty adviser's permission.
Selected topics of current research interest. May be taken more than once for credit. Please refer to the course site for more information.
Prerequisites:
faculty adviser's permission.
Selected topics of current research interest. May be taken more than once for credit. Please refer to the course site for more information.
Prerequisites:
faculty adviser's permission.
Selected topics of current research interest. May be taken more than once for credit. Please refer to the course site for more information.
Prerequisite: Public Health P6104 and working knowledge of calculus. Fundamentals, random variables, and distribution functions in one or more dimensions: moments, conditional probabilities, and densities; Laplace transforms and characteristic functions. Infinite sequences of random variables, weak and strong large numbers: central limit theorem
Prerequisite: Public Health P8104 and P8109 or the equivalent. Clinical trials concerning chronic disease, comparison of survivorship functions, parametric models for patterns of mortality and other kinds of failures, and competing risks.
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Prerequisites: Public Health P6103 or P6104 and P6400 or their equivalents. A thorough study of the fourfold table, with applications to epidemiological and clinical studies. Significance versus magnitude of association; estimation of relative risk; matching cases and controls; effects, measurement, and control of misclassification error; combining evidence from many studies.
Prerequisites: Public Health P8109 and P8111. An examination of a generalization of the classical regression model. Log-linear models for count data, probit and logit models, analysis of data with discrete ordered responses, and analysis of continuous data where the variability increases with the mean. Survival analysis and model checking are discussed as time allows.
Prerequisite: Public Health P6104 or the equivalent. Fundamental methods and concepts of the randomized clinical trial; protocol development, randomization, blindedness, patient recruitment, informed consent, compliance, sample size determination, cross-overs, collaborative trials. Each student prepares and submits the protocol for a real or hypothetical clinical trial.
Prerequisites: SIPA U6401
This is an advanced course in development economics, designed for SIPA students concentrating in economic and political development. The treatment of the material will be rigorous, and will presume knowledge of calculus. Coursework will include extensive empirical exercises, requiring the use of Stata or similar statistical software. Topics will include the economics of growth; the relationship between growth and poverty and inequality; the role of population pressures and rural-urban migration; the interaction between agrarian institutions in land, labor, credit, and insurance markets; management of common-property resources and sustainable development; and trade and globalization from the perspective of developing countries.
Prerequisites: At least one course each in probability and genetics and the instructor's permission. Fundamental principles of population genetics, with emphasis on human populations. Genetic drift; natural selection; nonrandom mating; quantitave genetics; linkage analysis; and applications of current technology (e.g., SNPs). Students will master basic principles of population genetics and will be able to model these principles mathematically/statistically.
Prerequisite: Public Health P8111. Features of repeated measurements studies; balance in time, time-varying covariates, and correlation structure. Examination of the models for continuous repeated measures based on normal theory; random effects models, mixed models, multivariate analysis of variance, growth curve models, and autoregressive models. Non-parametric approaches and models for repeated binary data. Applications of generalized linear models to repeated data. Empirical Bayes approaches are discussed as time allows.
This seminar will examine theories of the motivations for human action, drawing on economic and philosophical traditions. We will evaluate implications for practical problems in economics, finance and public policy.
The goal of the course is to examine predicaments of rights through a variety of topics and perspectives. This is not an introductory course (it is meant for students who have previously taken international law, or other "fundamental" human rights classes), yet we will explore human rights broadly: the challenges facing human rights as an ethical and a social justice framework; the multiplicity of rights, and the tension of universality and localism.
Prerequisites: Public Health P6104. Introduction to the principles of research data management and other aspects of data coordination using structured, computer-based exercises. Targeted to students with varying backgrounds and interests: (1) established and prospective investigators, scientists, and project leaders who want to gain a better understanding of the principles of data management to improve the organization of their own research, make informed decisions in assembling a data management team, and improve their ability to communicate with programmers and data analysts; and (2) students considering a career in data management, data analysis, or the administration of a data coordinating center.
This course is designed to develop practical advocacy skills to protect and promote human rights. A focus will be developing an advocacy strategy on a current human rights issue, including the identification of goals and objectives, appropriate advocacy targets and strategies, and the development of an appropriate research methodology. Students will explore broad-based human rights campaigns, use of the media, and advocacy with UN and legislative bodies. Over the course of the semester, students will become familiar with a variety of tools to apply to a human rights issue of their choosing. Case studies will illustrate successful advocacy campaigns on a range of human rights issues."
Since the end of the Cold War historical memory has come to play an increasing role in international and intranational conflicts. In addition numerous countries which are transitioning from dictatorship to democracy have focused on the gross historical violations of the previous regime. But not all. The question is how does a focus on the past facilitate present reconciliation? Societies are faced with the expectation that they will attend to the crimes of previous regimes. But what are crimes in historical perspective? And what are the standards for historical responsibility? How does historical conflict and reconciliation differ from approaches to immediate accountability for the past in newly democratic societies? The course examines these political and ethical dilemmas in a comparative historical perspective.
The course is designed to introduce you to the field of public management. It is a practical course organized around the tools managers may use to influence the behavior of their organizations. The course also discusses the political environment in which public managers must interact.
General aspects of normal human growth and development from viewpoints of physical growth, cellular growth and maturation, and adjustments made at birth; the impact of altered nutrition on these processes. Prenatal and postnatal malnutrition, the role of hormones in growth; relationships between nutrition and disease in such areas as anemia, obesity, infection, and carbohydrate absorption.
Fall: Review of current literature providing complementary information pertinent to other nutrition areas, with a view to developing a critical approach to the assimilation of scientific information. Spring: Obesity: Etiology, Prevention, and Treatment. Controversies involving regulation of weight and energy balance. Interaction between genetics and the environment are considered as well as clinical implications of our current knowledge.
Fall: Review of current literature providing complementary information pertinent to other nutrition areas, with a view to developing a critical approach to the assimilation of scientific information. Spring: Obesity: Etiology, Prevention, and Treatment. Controversies involving regulation of weight and energy balance. Interaction between genetics and the environment are considered as well as clinical implications of our current knowledge.
This is an advanced graduate seminar in Economic Sociology looking at new developments in this field. It addresses the disciplinary division of labor in which economists study value and sociologists study values; and it rejects the pact whereby economists study the economy and sociologists study social relations in which they are embedded.
This is the third required course in the advanced practice sequence. Focuses on exploration of the knowledge bases and research issues for the understanding and supply of (1) the transactions between people and their environment and (2) related practice.