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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 2024/25

Last updated: July 19, 2024

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 2024 seminars.  

    Fall
2024
Winter
2025
Spring
2025
205 Mathematics for Economists
(Fall of 1st Year)

Grigoryan

 

 

284 Becoming an Economist

 

Niehaus

  Core      
200ABC Microeconomics
(1st Year)

Shishkin

Watson

Grigoryan/Sobel/ Fadlon/Idoux

210ABC Macroeconomics
(1st Year)

Alon

Rondina

Herreño

220ABC Econometrics
(1st Year)

Elliott

Ma

Sun

220DEF Econometrics
(2nd Year)

Hamilton

Wuthrich/Ma

Carson

280 Computation Arnold    
  Electives      
201 Advanced Microeconomics  STAFF  
204 Contract Theory Watson
206 Decisions    
208 Games & Information Watson/Vespa  
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

 

Cullen
232 Public Economics:
Redistribution and Social
Insurance

Fadlon

 

233

Public Economics of Health Care

 

237 Political Economy

 

Lowes/Bazzi

241 Microeconomics of Development

 

 Muralidharan

242 Macroeconomics of Development

 Vogl/Lee

 

243 Organizational Economics of Development

 

Niehaus/Advaryu

245 International Trade

 

246 International Macroeconomics

 

247 Empirical Topics: International Economics  

 

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

Trevino

 

 

263 Modeling Behavioral Economics

 

 

264 Experimental Economics  

 

 
265 Alternative Choice Theory
266 Economics of Natural Resources

 Boomhower/Jacobsen

 

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 SIO MA students only)

 

 



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

STAFF

 

STAFF

286 Graduate Research Presentation

A00: Ma
(metrics/finance)

B00:Wu
(Macro)

C00: Watson
(Micro)

D00: Vogl
(Intl/Dev/
Applied)

E00: Jacobsen/Graff Zivin
(Enviro)

 

A00: Hamilton
(metrics/finance)

B00:
(Macro)

C00: STAFF
(Micro)

D00:
(Intl/Dev/
Applied)

E00:
(Enviro) 

296 3rd Year Original
Research Paper

STAFF

STAFF

  Seminars      
202ABC Theory, Behavioral and Experimental

Vespa

Grigoryan

212ABC Macroeconomics

Wu/Herreño

 

Wu

222ABC Econometrics Ma

235ABC

Applied Economics

Idoux

 

244ABC Development Economics

 

 

249ABC Global Economy Workshop

Eckert/Cullen/Jaimovich

 

269C Environmental and Resource Economics