Economics Postgraduate Degrees

...together with the microeconomic behaviour of people and businesses. An economics degree is an excellent foundation for your career as an economist... Learn about: Financial Training, Business Economics, Marketing Research...

...1 session / week, 1.5 hours / session 14.01 (MIT's introductory Microeconomics course) or an equivalent intermediate microeconomics course taken elsewhere... Learn about: Energy Markets...

...international trade and economic growth; institutions and economic development. This is a half-term subject. The class size is limited. Lectures... Learn about: Financial Training, International Trade...

...1.5 hours / session This is the second course in the four-quarter graduate sequence in macroeconomics. Its purpose is to introduce the basic models macroeconomists... Learn about: Interest Rates...

...will present an introduction to macroeconomic modeling, particularly economic growth. It will focus both on models of economic growth and their empirical applications...

...You have one week to turn in each problem set. TA sessions will be devoted to the solution of the previous week's problem set and some extra material not covered in the lectures...

...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 Economics, International Trade...

...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...

...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: Decision Making, Quality Training...

...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...