(S/U grades only.). The First-year Student Seminar Program is designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small seminar setting.
Prerequisites: ECON 110B. Priority enrollment given to majors in the department. Prerequisites: ECON 2 or 100B; and MATH 10C or 20C or 31BH. Draws on international economics, game theory, law and economics, and political economy to understand international economic agreements.
The objective of this course is to provide an understanding of the role of government in the health sector. ECON 107.
In this course, students are guided toward the formulation of an original research idea and the writing of an original paper. Environmental issues from an economic perspective. Honors sequence expanding on the material taught in ECON 110A. Prerequisites: ECON 2 or 100B. First-year student seminars are offered in all campus departments and undergraduate colleges, and topics vary from quarter to quarter.
Senior essay seminar for students with superior records in department majors.
May be repeated for credit. The course syllabus must provide the following details, in order for the course to be reviewed: 1) Exams must be proctored2) The method for proctoring must be clearly specified (taken on-campus or the proctoring center is identified)3) The final exam must count for a large fraction of the course grade.
May be taken for credit up to three times. Prerequisites: graduate standing.
The study of organizational effectiveness, in both the private and public sectors, bridges the gap between microeconomic analysis of individual and household behavior and macroeconomic analysis of economic aggregates such as capital and output.
(P/NP grades only.). Key applications include insurance markets, physician and hospital objective functions, payment models, health system design, and medical innovation.
ECON 243.
The emphasis will be on learning techniques that can be applied to produce original research and to critically analyze existing research in the field.
Introduction to regression analysis and other estimation methods. Discussion of specific expenditure programs such as education and national defense.
Prerequisites: ECON 1 and 3.
Include all supporting course materials such as: the syllabus, exams, class notes, papers, etc. ECON 178.
Futures and contingent commodity markets.
Bank behavior. Detailed treatment of antitrust policy: Sherman Act, price fixing, collusive practices, predatory pricing, price discrimination, double marginalization, exclusive territories, resale price maintenance, refusal to deal, and foreclosure.
Issues of dynamic consistency in choice. Prerequisites: graduate standing and ECON 200A-B-C or consent of instructor. ECON 226. Credit not allowed for both ECON 120B after MATH 181B.
Uses models of physician behavior, for-profit and nonprofit institutions to understand the trade-offs facing health-sector regulators and the administrators of public and private insurance arrangements. Regular attendance is required.
ECON 159.
All incoming transfer students are expected to have completed Econ 1, 3 and Math 10A or 20A, Math 10B or 20B and Math 10C or 20C. Prerequisites: ECON 110B. (Cross-listed with HIUS 141.) Public Economics: Expenditures II (4). Prerequisites: ECON 2 or 100A; and ECON 120B or MATH 181B.
Arrow-Debreu model of general economic equilibrium and welfare economics. This course covers theory and empirical applications in the following areas of industrial organization: dynamic pricing, price discrimination, collusion, market power, discrete choice demand modeling, entry, asymmetric information, and search.
ECON 105. Recommended preparation: ECON 220D.
Survey of the Mexican economy. Economic issues associated with oceans.
We will characterize the systematic violations of the theory that come from experiments and study how these behavioral regularities can be incorporated into new equilibrium concepts. Monetary control. Enrollment limited to Economics PhD students (EN75) or Rady PhD students (RS79); or consent of instructor.
Theoretical and empirical issues in labor economics. Prerequisites: ECON 220A, graduate standing; Enrollment limited to Economics PhD students (EN75) or Rady PhD students (RS79); or consent of instructor. Advanced Topics in Game Theory (2).
Applied Econometrics and Data Analysis (4). May be taken concurrently with ECON 110A or after successful completion of ECON 110A with Aor better or consent of instructor. A score of 5 on the AP Microeconomics Exam will give you credit for ECON 1; a score of 5 on the AP Macroeconomics Exam will give you credit for ECON 3.
Probability and statistics used in economics. FinanceTheory and Testing of Intertemporal Asset Pricing Models (4), Theoretical and empirical issues in finance.
Enrollment limited to Economics PhD students (EN75) or Rady PhD students (RS79); or consent of instructor.
Economics of Health Consumers (4).
Prerequisites: graduate standing and ECON 200A-B-C. Design and interpretation of controlled experiments using human subjects. ECON 242. UC San Diego 9500 Gilman Dr. La Jolla, CA 92093 (858) 534-2230
Issues of dynamic consistency in choice. Course emphasizes the creation, evaluation, and interpretation of forecasts for states, regions, and subcounty areas.
Theoretical and empirical issues in finance.
The course will also discuss their role in industrial organization, finance, and political economy, and their implications for welfare. Presents theories of global economic integration, grounded in the principle of comparative advantage.
Topics such as buyer behavior, marketing mix, promotion, product selection, pricing, and distribution.
May be taken concurrently with ECON 120C or after successful completion of ECON 120C with A or better or consent of instructor. Institutional analysis: social choice, mechanism design, cooperative bargaining, contracts, strategic theory of the firm. Prerequisites: ECON 220D, graduate standing; enrollment limited to Economics PhD students (EN75) or Rady PhD students (RS79); or consent of instructor. Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor. Appropriate for majors who have not completed ECON 100A-B-C and students from other departments.
Real Frictions and Financial Frictions (4). Students engage in hands-on learning with applied social science problems.
Prerequisites: ECON 210A-B-C or consent of instructor.
Prerequisites: ECON 200A-B-C or consent of instructor.
Public Economics: Redistribution and Social Insurance (4). Prerequisites: department stamp required. ECON 178 is recommended. Risk measures, hedging techniques, value of risk to firms, estimation of optimal hedge ratio, risk management with options and futures.
Prerequisites: consent of instructor.
Correspondingly, research in development economics is increasingly focused on how institutions affect development. Generally, the aim of the course is to provide PhD students a complete introduction to the growing literature in this area. Emphasis on the logic of the growth process, the social and political tensions accompanying expansion, and twentieth-century transformations of American capitalism. Prerequisites: ECON 100B. Examines theories of international trade in goods and services and relates the insights to empirical evidence.
Modern theories of short-run fluctuations: sources of business cycle and the evolution of income, employment, interest rate, and prices. Prerequisites: department approval required.
We consider whether the new models improve ability to predict and understand phenomena including altruism, trust and reciprocity, procrastination, and self-control.
Prerequisites: ECON 200A. This course covers long-run economic development and current economic issues of South Korea. Prerequisites: ECON 100A.
Exploration of normative and positive models of government behavior. Submit a separate petition for each course if you are petitioning more than one class. Presentation of recent research in international and development economics by faculty and graduate students, covering micro and macroeconomic aspect of both areas. ECON 151.
Theory of regulation and regulatory experience in electrical utilities, oil, telecommunications, broadcasting, etc.
Exploration of existing theoretical literature evaluating the efficiency and distribution effects of income and commodity taxes. ECON 227.
May be taken concurrently with ECON 100B or after successful completion of ECON 100B with A or better or consent of instructor. Prerequisites: none. Honors sequence expanding on the material taught in ECON 120A. This course examines the empirical work in international trade or international macroeconomics. Prerequisites: ECON 109. This course provides students with a framework and a range of practical skills to navigate the transition from being full-time students to being independent researchers.
This course focuses on the application of econometric techniques to issues in microeconomics and macroeconomics.
ECON 261. Econometric computation using MATLAB. Overview of the existing national tax structure in the United States, its effects on individual and firm decisions, and the resulting efficiency costs and distributional consequences.
Comparison of energy use across sectors and across countries.
Prerequisites: ECON 120B or MATH 181B and MATH 18 or MATH 31AH.
ECON 216. ECON 171.
Enrollment limited to majors in the Department of Economics and MA33 only. Further topics in game theory and the economics of information. Prospective Management Science majors should also complete Econ 4 and Math 18 (Linear Algebra) prior to transferring to UC San Diego.
Provides an overview of the physician, hospital, and pharmaceutical segments of the health sector.
Honors sequence expanding on the material taught in ECON 100C.
Bayesian and Numerical Methods (4). Prerequisites: consent of instructor.
Prerequisites: ECON 200B. Prerequisites: graduate standing and ECON 200A-B-C and ECON 220A-B-C. ECON 232.
Selected topics in microeconomics. In the process, we will endeavor to build practical problem-solving and communication skills.
Prerequisites: ECON 2 or 100A. We will review game theory experiments and analyze which theoretical predictions are validated and which are violated in practice.
Credit not allowed for both ECON 172A and MATH 171A.
Prerequisites: department approval required. Special Topics in Economics (4). Major GPA of 3.5 or better required.
Designed to prepare graduate students for original research in environmental or energy economics.
Connect cities to observed aggregate trends in innovation, job creation, and economic inequality.
Law and Economics: Torts, Property, and Crime (4).
Mathematical concepts and techniques used in advanced economic analysis; applications to selected aspects of economic theory. Prerequisites: ECON 120A or ECE 109 or MAE 108 or MATH 180A or MATH 183 or MATH 186. The class will meet in a seminar format where students will be expected to actively participate in discussions based on the readings and write a short paper at the end of the quarter. Topics include testing for rationality of forecasts, Mincer-Zarnowitz regressions, asymmetric loss functions, tests for equal (superior) predictive ability, multivariate forecasting.
Prerequisites: graduate standing and ECON 220A, 220B, 220C, 220D, and 220E or consent of instructor. International trade topics include empirical tests of theories of international trade and international capital movements. Prerequisites: ECON 210A-B-C or consent of instructor.
Advanced Topic in Globalization (2). Analysis of inflation, unemployment, and monetary and fiscal policy. ECON 152. Relation of the environment to economic growth.
Students may not receive credit for ECON 237 and POLI 231E.
Management of natural resources, such as forest and fresh water. Microeconomics of Development (4). Prerequisites: consent of the department. The course concludes with an examination of several commonly-proposed tax reforms.
Students have the opportunity to analyze global trade and capital market data and to prepare a presentation and brief paper on a specific topic. Priority enrollment given to majors in the department. First and Second Fundamental Theorems of Welfare Economics. Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor. Enrollment limited to Economics PhD students (EN75) or Rady PhD students (RS79); or consent of instructor. ECON 165T.
May be taken concurrently with ECON 100C or after successful completion of ECON 100C with A or better or consent of instructor.
Theory of public goods and externalities. Topics such as economic growth, Chinas transition to a market economy, international trade, financial markets, labor markets, and industrial structure. The major emphasis in the class is on the completion of an empirical project. Examines reasons for international economic agreements, their design, the strategic interactions that determine how the agreements are implemented and sustained, and consequences for global welfare and inequality. Prerequisites: ECON 100B.
Topics include Bayesian inference and decision theory, loss functions, estimation of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models, nonlinear time series, state-space models, spatial-temporal models, and high-frequency data.
Prerequisites: ECON 100A.
Analysis of the effects of imperfect market structure, strategy, and imperfect information.
Priority enrollment given to majors in the department. The emphasis is on theory, with some empirical illustration and motivation. Concurrent enrollment in ECON 120C is permitted. Theory of extreme estimators is used to study the specification, estimation, and testing of these models.
(Previously numbered ECON 214C.).
Topics include numerical techniques, dynamic programming, linear systems, solution algorithms, and applications to dynamic general equilibrium.
Theoretical and empirical issues in natural resource economics.
Honors sequence expanding on the material taught in ECON 100A.
Role of marketing in the economy. May be repeated for credit if topic differs.
Recommended preparation: ECON 120C.
Students who hold appointments as teaching assistants must enroll in this course, but it is open to other students as well. Topics include dynamic general equilibrium, asset market equilibrium, and economic growth and distribution.
Prerequisites: department approval required.
Credit not allowed for both ECON 158 and HIUS 140. Introduction to teaching economics. Prerequisites: consent of instructor. Prerequisites: graduate standing; enrollment limited to Economics PhD students (EN75) or Rady PhD students (RS79); or consent of instructor. Law and Economics: Contracts and Corporations (4). (Cross-listed with MGT 4.)
ECON 102T. ECON 268. Course may be repeated an unlimited number of times.
Consideration of various market structures in education, including school choice and school finance programs. (P/NP grades only.). All topics are considered from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective. Depending on student demand, meetings may be divided into multiple sections, based on field interests. ECON 210D. Overview of key methods and findings of empirical research in macroeconomics.
Controlled reading and discussion with adviser; literature survey.
Selected topics in economics. Macroeconomic Data Analysis (4). The objective of this course is to provide an understanding of the role of government intervention in the economy in two broad areas of expenditureredistribution and social insurancefrom both a theoretical and an empirical perspective.
Prerequisites: ECON 4 or MGT 4; and ECON 173A. An intensive examination of selected topics in economic theory.
This course focuses on econometric analysis of panel data and cross-section data.
ECON 267. Theoretically develops extensions to the standard econometric toolbox, studies their application in scientific research, and applies them to data.
May be repeated up to three times when course topics vary. Prerequisites: graduate standing. Examination of issues in education using theoretical and empirical approaches from economics. Major GPA of 3.5 or better required.
Priority enrollment given to majors in the department.
(Previously numbered ECON 214A. Topics include neural networks, kernels, series, splines, estimation of densities and spectra, smoothing parameter selection, semiparametric models, efficiency and adaptation, forecasting with nonlinear models, over-fit, computation, and interpretation.