Historical grades cover up to five years through the selected term. Grade sorting prioritizes courses with at least 100 letter grades.
ECON 681 is a Senior Honors Thesis course focused on faculty-guided original research.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
The course is rated as having low difficulty by the single available reviewer.
No recorded grade history
ECON 690 covers various topics in economic theory and policy.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
The grading distribution is heavily weighted toward exams, with 45% for the midterm and 45% for the final, leaving only 10% for homework.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026ECON 691 is a Senior Thesis course focused on faculty-guided original research.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
No recorded grade history
ECON 692 is a senior thesis course involving faculty-guided original research in economics.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
No recorded grade history
ECON 695 covers advanced topics in using data to answer important economic questions.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Historical reviews of Matthew Friedman: Reviewers describe the workload as heavy, with exams being particularly stressful and brutal when coding independently, although the curve is often fair.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026ECON 698 is a directed study course allowing advanced undergraduates to conduct arranged research or study specific topics with a faculty member.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
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ECON 699 is a directed study allowing advanced undergraduates to arrange independent research or topic study with a faculty member.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
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Spring 2022–Fall 2024 · limited sampleECON 700 teaches mathematical techniques for Master-level economics analysis, including proof, optimization, topology, and functional analysis.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
The course is rated as very difficult by the reviewer.
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Fall 2022–Fall 2025MICROECONOMICS I covers consumer theory, producer theory, and market equilibrium with applications to game theory.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
One historical review reports that homework and exams are very hard, with midterm exams containing many questions and limited time that no students finish.
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Spring 2022–Fall 2025ECON 703 surveys mathematical techniques for economic analysis, emphasizing linear algebra and optimization.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Historical reviews of Raymond Deneckere: The course is rated as difficult, with a rating of 4, and requires careful attention to lectures to gain significant value.
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Fall 2022–Fall 2025ECONOMETRICS I covers econometric methods, theory, and applications including linear regression and hypothesis testing.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Historical reviews of Kenneth West, Xiaoxia Shi: Reviewers describe the course as hard-core, yet note that exams are easy, suggesting a disconnect between perceived difficulty and assessment format.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026ECON 706 teaches students to use econometric methods for empirical research and writing in economics.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Historical reviews of Christopher Taber: Christopher Taber's course is rated as difficult, with a difficulty score of 4 out of 5.
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Fall 2022–Fall 2025Introduction to economic statistics and econometrics, covering probability, inference, and regression.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Homework problems are described as very easy, suggesting low workload difficulty.
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Fall 2022–Fall 2025Graduate microeconomic theory covering firms, consumers, markets, and equilibrium.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
The course requires significant time and deep thinking, with challenging problem sets and long exams. Reviewers describe the workload as intense, noting it is particularly demanding for undergraduates or master's students.
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Fall 2022–Fall 2025First course in a macroeconomics sequence covering general equilibrium, intertemporal optimization, and growth theory.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
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Fall 2022–Fall 2025ECON 715 covers nonlinear econometric theory as part of its econometric methods curriculum.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
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Fall 2022–Fall 2024 · limited sampleECON 721 covers the contemporary theory of financial markets, portfolio choice, and asset pricing.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
The pace is relatively fast, requiring at least eight Python and calculation problem sets, though a final exam can be substituted with a manageable Python project.
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Fall 2022–Fall 2025ECON 726 teaches the application of machine learning techniques to economic research, focusing on causal inference and policy estimation.
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Fall 2025–Fall 2025 · limited sampleECON 736 examines the theoretical, empirical, and institutional aspects of monetary, fiscal, and income policies used to manage inflation and unemployment.
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Fall 2022–Fall 2024 · limited sampleECON 741 covers the theory of public finance and fiscal policy, focusing on government functions, welfare criteria, public goods, and cost-benefit analysis.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
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Fall 2022–Fall 2025 · limited sampleECON 750 covers theoretical and empirical analysis of labor markets, mobility, earnings, employment, and household labor supply.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
The course is demanding, requiring students to engage deeply with the material as Kennan does not spoon-feed answers, though he ensures students are never left stranded.
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Fall 2022–Fall 2025 · limited sampleECON 761 covers industrial organization theory, focusing on the firm, oligopoly, and imperfect competition.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
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Fall 2022–Fall 2025 · limited sampleECON 770 teaches quantitative economic research using core datasets and econometric modeling.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Historical reviews of Kim Ruhl: The course provides hands-on experience with Python, helping students learn programming from scratch.
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Fall 2022–Fall 2025Introduction to basic AI concepts and their specific applications in economics using economic data.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
No recorded grade history
ECON 805 covers advanced microeconomic theory, focusing on economic behavior under uncertainty, risk measurement, asset pricing, and incentive mechanisms.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Historical reviews of Antonio Penta: Students report high difficulty, noting that understanding requires significant effort in reading lecture notes and papers.
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Fall 2024–Fall 2025 · limited sampleECON 872 teaches algebraic and geometric modeling of open macroeconomics, focusing on unbalanced trade, payments, and foreign exchange market determinants.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026 · limited sampleCovers techniques to compute and estimate structural models, transitioning from formal Econometrics, Macroeconomics, and Theory training to applications.
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Fall 2024–Fall 2025 · limited sampleECON 899 covers selections from all fields of economic research.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026A graduate seminar workshop focusing on the critical discussion of topics in mathematical economic theory.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
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Fall 2025–Fall 2025 · limited sampleA graduate workshop examining current research on markets characterized by imperfect information and heterogeneous commodities.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
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