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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 website, please e-mail us at econphdadvising@ucsd.edu.

Course Offerings for 2023/24

Last updated: March 20, 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 2023 seminars.  

    Fall
2023
Winter
2024
Spring
2024
205 Mathematics for Economists
(Fall of 1st Year)

Toda

 

 

284 Becoming an Economist

 

Niehaus

  Core      
200ABC Microeconomics
(1st Year)

Toda/Shishkin

Sobel/Shishkin/Vespa

Du

210ABC Macroeconomics
(1st Year)

Alon/Wu

Rondina

Wieland/ Herreno

220ABC Econometrics
(1st Year)

Elliott

Ma

Sun

220DEF Econometrics
(2nd Year)

Hamilton

Wuthrich

Carson

280 Computation Arnold    
  Electives      
201 Advanced Microeconomics    
204 Contract Theory
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

Cullen

232 Public Economics:
Redistribution and Social
Insurance

Fadlon

 

233

Public Economics of Health Care

 

Clemens

237 Political Economy

 

Lowes/Bazzi

241 Microeconomics of Development

 

 Muralidharan

242 Macroeconomics of Development

 Vogl/Munseob Lee

 

243 Organizational Economics of Development

 

Niehaus

245 International Trade

Trottner

246 International Macroeconomics

Wu

 

247 Empirical Topics: International Economics  

 

248 Spatial Economics Eckert
250 Labor Economics Arnold/Dahl/Berman/Betts Berman/Dahl Betts/Arnold
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  

 

268 Energy and Environmental
Economics

Boomhower/ Jacobsen 

272 Finance-Intertemporal Models  

 

281

Special Topics in
Economics

Jacobsen 
 (Environmental for SIO MA students only)

 

Jaimovich

Meckel
Herreno/Wieland
Herreno/Wieland

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

Alon/Bharadwaj

 

Eckert/Fadlon 

286 Graduate Research Presentation

A00:
(metrics/finance)

B00:Eckert
(Macro)

C00:
(Micro)

D00:Meckel
(Intl/Dev/
Applied)

E00:Boomhower
(Environmental)

 

A00:Ma
(metrics/finance)

B00:Hamilton
(Macro)

C00: Grigoryan
(Micro)

D00:Niehaus
(Intl/Dev/
Applied)

E00:
(Environmental) 

296 3rd Year Original
Research Paper

Alon/Bharadwaj

Eckert/Fadlon

  Seminars      
202ABC Theory, Behavioral and Experimental

Shishkin

Vespa

212ABC Macroeconomics

Jaimovich

 

Wieland

222ABC Econometrics Zhu Ma

235ABC

Applied Economics

Clemens

Betts

244ABC Development Economics

Vogl/Guarav

Bharadwaj/McCord

249ABC Global Economy Workshop

Eckert

Trottner

269C Environmental and Resource Economics  

Garg