Economics Degrees

...current macroeconomic concerns with particular emphasis on medium-run economic fluctuations, economic crises, and the role of asset markets...

...Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Recitations: 1 session / week, 1.5 hours / session The prerequisites for this course are 14.122 Microeconomic...

...Blanchard will discuss shocks, labor markets and unemployment, and dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models (DSGE models). Professor Lorenzoni will cover demand shocks... Learn about: Professor Training...

...in majoring in the public finance field. The Public Finance major field requirement consists of two courses: 14.471 Public Economics I and 14.472 Public Economics... Learn about: Public Economics...

...discuss problem sets at times to be arranged. There will be three problem sets, a mid-term take-home exercise, and an in-class final exam. The Public Finance... Learn about: Public Economics...

...workplace health and safety, consumer product safety, and other contexts. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session This course explores the theory... Learn about: Environmental Economics, Financial Training...

...The course also concerns normative issues, such as: Is trade openness beneficial to a representative agent? And, are there winners and losers from trade and if... Learn about: International Trade, International Economics...

...Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Recitations: 1 session / week, 1 hour / session This course is an introduction to labor economics...

...Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Recitations: 1 session / week, 1 hour / week 14.64 Labor Economics and Public Policy or 15.660 Strategic Human Resource Management...

...Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Recitations: 1 session / week, 1.5 hours / session The prerequisites for this course are 14.04 Intermediate...

...placed on the study of those factors, both institutional and technological, which have contributed to the emergence of capitalist organization and economic... Learn about: Economic History...

...Topics include the growth of the industrial world, the Great Depression and surrounding events, and more recent topics such as the first oil crisis... Learn about: Economic History, Financial Training...

...Readings include classics in economic thought as well as contemporary analyses. Lectures: 1 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session There are no prerequisites for this course...

...How can we end child labor—or should we? How do we make schools work for poor citizens? How do we deal with the disease burden? Is micro finance invaluable or overrated?...

...to labor markets and economic growth. Discussions: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session This course is a survey of world economic history... Learn about: Economic History...

...1.5 hours per session There are no prerequisites for this course. The first half of the class was taught by Prof. Daron Acemoglu, and the second part...

...education policy and market equilibrium, gender discrimination, public finance, decision making within families, firms and contracts, technology... Learn about: Quality Training, Decision Making...

...2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Recitations: 1 session / week, 1 hour / session This class contributes to the fulfillment of requirements for...

...1 session / week, 2 hours / session The seminar is open to MIT graduate students in all departments and also to undergraduates with prior course work... Learn about: Social Science...

...impact on different economic sectors and careers. Participants will build on their own experiences, in a seminar designed to bring to light the broader...