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Graduate Courses in Economics

The Department of Economics offers 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 website, please e-mail us at econphdadvising@ucsd.edu.

Course Offerings for 2025/26

Last updated: August 4, 2025 (subject to change)

As of Fall 2022, department seminars are no longer listed as formal courses with the registrar. Upper-year PhD students are still expected to regularly attend at least one seminar, but there is no need to enroll in order to attend. Click here for the schedule for our Fall 2025 seminars.  

    Fall
2025
Winter
2026
Spring
2026
205 Mathematics for Economists
(Fall of 1st Year)

Du

 

 

284 Becoming an Economist

 

Niehaus

  Core      
200ABC Microeconomics
(1st Year)

Shishkin

Watson

Grigoryan/Trevino

210ABC Macroeconomics
(1st Year)

Alon

Rondina

Herreño

220ABC Econometrics
(1st Year)

Elliott

Ma

Sun

220DEF Econometrics
(2nd Year)

Hamilton

Vijaykumar

Carson

280 Computation Arnold    
  Electives      
201 Advanced Microeconomics    
204 Contract Theory Watson
206 Decisions    
208 Games & Information  
210D Monetary Economics
and Business Cycles
214 Applied Macroeconomics

 

221 Advanced Econometrics

Zhu

 

227 Nonparametric and
Semi-Parametric Methods

 

230 Public Economics:
Taxation
     
231 Public Econ: Natl Govt Expend

 

232 Public Economics:
Redistribution and Social
Insurance

Fadlon

 

233

Public Economics of Health Care

 

Clemens

237 Political Economy

 

Bazzi

241 Microeconomics of Development

 

 Muralidharan

242 Macroeconomics of Development

 Vogl/Lee

 

243 Organizational Economics of Development

 

Niehaus/Advaryu

245 International Trade

 

Trottner/Eckert
246 International Macroeconomics

Wu

 

247 Empirical Topics: International Economics  

 

248 Spatial Economics Eckert
250 Labor Economics Arnold/Berman/Betts Berman/Dahl Arnold/Betts
262 Bahvioral Game Theory

Trevino

 

 

263 Modeling Behavioral Economics

 

 

264 Experimental Economics  

Vespa 

 
265 Alternative Choice Theory
266 Economics of Natural Resources

 

 

267 Topics in Environmental and Resource Economics  

Graff Zivin

 

268 Energy and Environmental
Economics

Boomhower

 

272 Finance-Intertemporal Models  

 

281

Special Topics in
Economics

Jacobsen 
 (Environmental for SIO MA students only)

Jaimovich (Macro)

 

 



  3rd Year Research      
285 3rd Year Pre-Candidacy Presentation

Bharadwaj/Zhu

 

Eckert/Trevino

286 Graduate Research Presentation

A00: Ma
(metrics/finance)

B00: Eckert/Wu
(Macro/Intl)

C00: Bharadwaj
(Dev/Applied)

D00: Cullen
(Labor/Public)

E00: Vespa
(TBE)

F00: Jacobsen
(Enviro)

B00: Eckert/Wu
(Macro/Intl)

A00: Ma
(metrics/finance)

B00: Eckert/Wu
(Macro)

C00: Clemens
(Dev/Applied)

 

296 3rd Year Original
Research Paper

Bharadwaj/Zhu

Eckert/Trevino

  Seminars      
202ABC Theory, Behavioral and Experimental

Shishkin

Grigoryan

 

212ABC Macroeconomics

Alon

 Wu

 

222ABC Econometrics Ma Hamilton

235ABC

Applied Economics

 

 

244ABC Development Economics

 

 

249ABC Global Economy Workshop

 

 

269C Environmental and Resource Economics