Graduate Courses in Economics
The Department of Economics offers over 50 graduate courses throughout the academic year including core courses in microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics and elective courses in various fields. Information on our courses can be found in the corresponding pages on the left. Should you have additional questions not covered by the information contained or resources listed on this Web site, please e-mail us at econphdadvising@ucsd.edu.
Course Offerings for 2020/21
Last updated: January 19, 2021
If a professor is listed in the term, the course is currently scheduled to be offered in that term. Please note that these are subject to change.
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Winter 2021 |
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205 |
Mathematics for Economists |
Toda |
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200ABC | Microeconomics (1st Year) |
Machina | Toda/Watson | Du/Galperti |
210ABC | Macroeconomics (1st Year) |
Alon | Rondina | Wieland |
220ABC | Econometrics (1st Year) |
Elliott | Ma | Sun |
220DEF |
Econometrics |
Elliott |
Wuthrich/Zhu |
Carson |
280 | Computation | STAFF | ||
Electives | ||||
201 | Advanced Microeconomics | |||
204 | Contract Theory | |||
206 | Decisions | |||
208 | Games & Information | Sobel | ||
210D | Monetary Economics and Business Cycles |
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214 | Applied Macroeconomics | V. Ramey | ||
221 | Advanced Econometrics | Zhu | ||
227 | Nonparametric and Semi-Parametric Methods |
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230 | Public Economics: Taxation |
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231 | Public Economics: Natl Govt Expenditures |
Cullen |
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232 |
Public Economics: |
Fadlon |
Clemens |
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237 | Political Economy | Niehaus/Lowes | ||
241 | Microeconomics of Development |
Muralidharan |
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242 | Macroeconomics of Development | Vogl | ||
243 | Organizational Economics of Development |
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245 | International Trade | Eckert | ||
246 | International Macroeconomics | |||
247 | Empirical Topics: International Economics |
Trottner |
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250 | Labor Economics | Berman/Betts/Dahl | Berman/Dahl | Betts |
262 | Behavioral Game Theory | Andreoni/Vespa | ||
263 | Modeling Behavioral Economics | Trevino |
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264 | Experimental Economics | Andreoni/Vespa | ||
265 | Alternative Choice Theory | |||
266 | Economics of Natural Resources |
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267 | Topics in Environmental and Resource Economics |
Graff Zivin |
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268 | Energy and Environmental Economics |
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272 | Finance-Intertemporal Models |
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281 |
Special Topics in |
Jacobsen (Environmental for MA students in SIO only) |
Bowen (Political Economy) Meckel (Public Finance) |
Du (Microeconomic Theory)
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3rd Year Research | ||||
285 | 3rd Year Pre-Candidacy Presentation |
Ma/Vespa |
Wieland/Wuthrich |
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286 | Graduate Research Presentation |
Zhu Alon Trevino Meckel Jacobsen |
Fadlon (Applied/Dev) |
Ma Wieland Lowes Boomhower Galperti (Micro) |
296 | 3rd Year Original Research Paper |
Ma/Vespa | Wieland/Wuthrich | |
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202ABC | Microeconomic Theory | Galperti | Trevino | |
212ABC | Macroeconomics |
Alon |
Wieland |
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222ABC | Econometrics | Zhu | Ma | |
235ABC |
Applied Microeconomics |
Clemens |
Berman |
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249ABC | International/Development | Rauch |
Lowes |