Senior Honors Thesis
3 creditsSenior Honors Thesis is a course in which students conduct faculty-guided, honors-level original research.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Senior Honors Thesis is a course in which students conduct faculty-guided, honors-level original research.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
No recorded grade history
A course covering topics in economic theory and policy.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Fran Flanagan
The workload included five short homework assignments, one midterm, one final, and a final paper, with homework taking about an hour each.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026Senior thesis involving faculty guided original research.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Advanced topics in using data to answer economic questions, focusing on interpreting empirical papers and applying econometric methods to real data.
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Past student reviews · Matthew Friedman
Exams were described as brutal and stressful, particularly when coding independently, though the curve was considered fair.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026Directed Study: independent study of topics or research at an advanced undergraduate level, arranged with a faculty member.
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Directed Study allows advanced undergraduate students to study specific topics or conduct research as arranged with a faculty member.
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Fall 2022–Fall 2024 · limited sampleMacro Economics I uses a mathematical approach to study aggregate output, consumption, labor markets, growth, cycles, and policy interactions.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026ECONOMETRICS II covers econometric methods, theory, and applications including instrumental variables, GMM, panel data, limited dependent variables, time series, and vector autoregressions.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Jack Porter
Problem sets were described as challenging but fair, and tests were similarly regarded as fair by past students.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Causal Estimation in Economics covers the basic causality issue and contemporary econometric methods for identifying and estimating causal effects of policies, programs, or decisions.
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Spring 2026–Spring 2026 · limited sampleMicroeconomics II covers consumer and producer theory, markets under partial and general equilibrium, externalities, market power, decision theory, and game theory.
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Past student reviews · Matthew Friedman
One student reported spending 50 hours a week on heavy homework, assignments, and Python coding exercises.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Economic Statistics and Econometrics II covers extensions of the linear regression model and introduces multiple equation models.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026Second course in a two-semester microeconomics sequence covering market theory, efficiency, externalities, price roles, and information economics including moral hazard and adverse selection.
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Past student reviews · John Kennan
Previous students rated the course difficulty as moderate.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026Second course in the Macroeconomics Sequence covering asset pricing, fiscal/monetary policy, mechanism design, and estimation/calibration of business cycle models.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026ECONOMETRIC METHODS covers advanced econometric theory.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026 · limited sampleApplied Econometrics covers applied cross section and panel methods.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026 · limited sampleFinancial Econometrics covers econometric analysis of financial time series, including linear and multivariate models, volatility estimation, and model testing.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026Machine Learning for Economists introduces ML techniques for economic analysis, focusing on supervised/unsupervised learning, large data analysis, and causal inference methods using R.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026International Financial Economics examines international financial markets, foreign exchange, capital markets, and corporate finance.
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Spring 2024–Spring 2026 · limited sampleTheory of Public Finance and Fiscal Policy covers tax incidence, microeconomic tax effects, macroeconomic stabilization, growth, debt management, and international taxation.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026 · limited sampleSurvey of institutional aspects of labor economics covering labor theories, union political activities, collective bargaining, and public policy for analyzing labor market problems.
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Spring 2024–Spring 2026 · limited sampleStudies measurement in industrial organization, surveys empirical tests of hypotheses, covers antitrust theory and practice, and requires an original research piece.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026 · limited sampleThis course covers topics in microeconomic theory.
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Spring 2024–Spring 2025 · limited sampleTopics in macroeconomic research.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2025 · limited sampleAdvanced International Economics covers general equilibrium algebraic and geometric modeling of open economies with balanced trade, plus welfare economics of international exchange and barriers.
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Past student reviews · Kim Ruhl
One past student rated the course difficulty as 4 out of 5.
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Fall 2022–Fall 2025 · limited sampleRecent Advances in Economics covers selections from all fields of economic research.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026A workshop course featuring critical discussion of topics in the field of economic theory.
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Spring 2026–Spring 2026 · limited sampleA graduate workshop examining current research on market operations where agents face imperfect information, limited responses, and conflicting goals.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026 · limited sampleA workshop in econometrics focusing on current research in econometric model building, estimation and inference as the second course in a two-seminar sequence.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026 · limited sampleWorkshop in Labor Economics is the second course in a two-seminar sequence analyzing current research on wage determination and labor market functioning.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026Seminar workshop on quantitative macro-economic analysis covering current research in macroeconomic models, monetary policy, portfolio selection, and capital markets.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026 · limited sample