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.

		Fall 2020	Winter 2021	Spring 2021
205	Mathematics for Economists (Fall of 1st Year)	Toda
	Core
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 (2nd Year)	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
214	Applied Macroeconomics	V. Ramey
221	Advanced Econometrics			Zhu
227	Nonparametric and Semi-Parametric Methods
230	Public Economics: Taxation
231	Public Economics: Natl Govt Expenditures	Cullen
232	Public Economics: Redistribution and Social Insurance		Fadlon	Clemens
237	Political Economy			Niehaus/Lowes
241	Microeconomics of Development		Muralidharan
242	Macroeconomics of Development	Vogl
243	Organizational Economics of Development
245	International Trade		Eckert
246	International Macroeconomics
247	Empirical Topics: International Economics			Trottner
250	Labor Economics	Berman/Betts/Dahl	Berman/Dahl	Betts
262	Behavioral Game Theory		Andreoni/Vespa
263	Modeling Behavioral Economics	Trevino
264	Experimental Economics			Andreoni/Vespa
265	Alternative Choice Theory
266	Economics of Natural Resources
267	Topics in Environmental and Resource Economics		Graff Zivin
268	Energy and Environmental Economics
272	Finance-Intertemporal Models
281	Special Topics in Economics	Jacobsen (Environmental for MA students in SIO only)	Bowen (Political Economy) Meckel (Public Finance)	Du (Microeconomic Theory)
	3rd Year Research
285	3rd Year Pre-Candidacy Presentation	Ma/Vespa		Wieland/Wuthrich
286	Graduate Research Presentation	Zhu (Econometrics/ Finance) Alon (Macro/Intl) Trevino (Micro) Meckel (Applied/Dev) Jacobsen (Environmental)	Fadlon (Applied/Dev)	Ma (Econometrics/finance) Wieland (Macro/Intl) Lowes (Applied/Dev) Boomhower (Environmental) Galperti (Micro)
296	3rd Year Original Research Paper	Ma/Vespa		Wieland/Wuthrich
	Seminars
202ABC	Microeconomic Theory	Galperti		Trevino
212ABC	Macroeconomics	Alon		Wieland
222ABC	Econometrics	Zhu		Ma
235ABC	Applied Microeconomics	Clemens		Berman
249ABC	International/Development	Rauch		Lowes