Graduate courses and seminars

Economics (Arts): Experimental methodology, current topics in experimental economics, and market design.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisites: ECON 230 or ECON 250 or permission of the instructor.
• Restrictions: For U3 students.

• Terms
  • Winter 2013
• Instructors
  • James C Engle-Warnick

Economics (Arts): A course in cost benefit analysis for graduate and advanced undergraduate students.

Offered by: Economics

• Restriction: Open to advanced undergraduate students. Prerequisite: ECON 250, ECON 352 or equivalent

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the academic year

Economics (Arts): Examination of historical patterns of economic development.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite: ECON 230 or ECON 250 or equivalent.
• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ECON 631.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the academic year

Economics (Arts): This course introduces students to game theory, the branch of the social sciences that focuses on the formal modelling and analysis of human interactions and strategic behaviour. Basic concepts in cooperative and non-cooperative games are applied to economic models.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite: ECON 230 or ECON 250
• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ECON 446. Open to advanced undergraduate students

• Terms
  • Winter 2013
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the academic year

Economics (Arts): A mathematical treatment of basic economic theory.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisites: MATH 133, MATH 139 and MATH 141 or equivalent

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the academic year

Economics (Arts): Selected topics in European and North American economic history are investigated from the standpoint of the interplay of institutional change and quantitative growth.

Offered by: Economics

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the academic year

Economics (Arts): This is the first in a two-course sequence in microeconomics. The core microeconomics sequence (ECON 610, ECON 611) provides a rigorous coverage of the economic foundation upon which economic fields are built. Most of the sequence is devoted to building up this foundation of consumer and firm optimisation (including choice under uncertainty), partial and general equilibrium, and welfare economics. The remainder of ECON 611 covers special topics that vary from year to year. These are likely to be drawn from the following: social choice; externalities and public goods; models of asymmetric information; the principal-agent framework; search; basic game theory.

Offered by: Economics

• Terms
  • Fall 2012
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the academic year

Economics (Arts): This is the second in a two-course sequence in microeconomics.

Offered by: Economics

• Terms
  • Winter 2013
• Instructors
  • Licun Xue

Economics (Arts): This course is the first in a two-course sequence in macroeconomics. The course offers a thorough treatment of the fundamentals of macroeconomic theory. Emphasis is placed on the construction of economic models with microeconomic foundations. Topics include market-clearing and non-market-clearing models, capital accumulation, business cycles, monetary policy and fiscal policy.

Offered by: Economics

• Terms
  • Fall 2012
• Instructors
  • Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado

Economics (Arts): This is the second in a two-course sequence in macroeconomics. The course provides an in-depth analysis of selected issues in macroeconomic theory, extending and complementing the coverage provided in ECON 620.

Offered by: Economics

• Terms
  • Winter 2013
• Instructors
  • Markus K Poschke

Economics (Arts): A survey of the role of government in the economy (excluding the macroeconomic side - stabilization, etc.). Topics include markets and market failure; public goods; externalities; the theory of the second-best and the study of collective choice, including voting; and the collection of revenue to finance government activity, including optimal taxation of commodities and income.

Offered by: Economics

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the academic year

Economics (Arts): A rigorous analysis of the demand and supply of money and the role that it plays in the economy. Study of the ideas of the major schools of thought in monetary economics.

Offered by: Economics

• Terms
  • Fall 2012
• Instructors
  • Jagdish Handa

Economics (Arts): A detailed examination of theories and policies in international trade and finance.

Offered by: Economics

• Terms
  • Fall 2012
• Instructors
  • Hassan Benchekroun

Economics (Arts): The concept of optimal resource management and the associated rules, such as Hotelling's rule and Faustmann's rule. Implications of the need to sink capital for equilibrium in resource utilization under certainty and uncertainty. Conditions under which there is market failure and the merits of price and quantity instruments.

Offered by: Economics

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the academic year

Economics (Arts): A systematic treatment of the characteristics and problems of economic development in underdeveloped countries.

Offered by: Economics

• Terms
  • Fall 2012
• Instructors
  • Franque Grimard, Sonia C Laszlo

Economics (Arts): An analysis of the nature of the firm, industrial structure and the effect of structure on firm and industry behaviour and performance.

Offered by: Economics

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the academic year

Economics (Arts): A synthesis of theoretical developments in the area of labour economics with stress upon problems of empirical testing.

Offered by: Economics

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the academic year

Economics (Arts): Study of tools that allow numerical solutions to selected economics problems for which closed-form analytical solutions are not available. Coverage includes solutions to dynamic stochastic models in economics and finance, including dynamic programming in discrete and continuous time.

Offered by: Economics

• Corequisite: ECON 620
• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ECON 752 when topic was "Applied Computational Economics"

• Terms
  • Winter 2013
• Instructors
  • Daniel Barczyk

Economics (Arts): Preparation of M.A. research papers.

Offered by: Economics

• Terms
  • Fall 2012
  • Winter 2013
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the academic year

Economics (Arts): Selected topics in the history of economic thought.

Offered by: Economics

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the academic year

Economics (Arts): A broad treatment of econometric methods, with particular reference to time series processes. Estimation of linear and non-linear models, GLS, IV, Maximum Likelihood, parametric specification testing for linear and non-linear hypotheses, diagnostic testing (autocorrelation, heteroskedasticity, normality, parameter constancy, etc.), modelling technique, non-stationary data processes.

Offered by: Economics

• Students must register for both ECON 662D1 and ECON 662D2
• No credit will be given for this course unless both ECON 662D1 and ECON 662D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
• ECON 662D1 and ECON 662D2 together are equivalent to ECON 662

• Terms
  • Fall 2012
• Instructors
  • John W Galbraith

Economics (Arts): See ECON 662D1 for course description.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite: ECON 662D1
• No credit will be given for this course unless both ECON 662D1 and ECON 662D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
• ECON 662D1 and ECON 662D2 together are equivalent to ECON 662

• Terms
  • Winter 2013
• Instructors
  • Victoria Zinde-Walsh

Economics (Arts): A survey of quantitative methods frequently used in economic research. Special emphasis will be placed upon the formulation and evaluation of econometric models. Illustrations will be drawn from the existing empirical literature in economics. Required for all Ph.D. students who have not taken Econometrics as a field.

Offered by: Economics

• Terms
  • Winter 2013
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the academic year

Economics (Arts)

Offered by: Economics

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the academic year

Economics (Arts): Reading course in Economics.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisites: ECON 610, ECON 620 and 6 additional credits at the 600 level

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the academic year

Economics (Arts): Selected topics in specialized areas of Economics.

Offered by: Economics

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the academic year

Economics (Arts): The main focus of the course will be the "theory of social situations" (which is closely related to "game theory") which is a new and integrative approach to the study of formal models (both cooperative and non-cooperative) in the social sciences.

Offered by: Economics

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the academic year

Economics (Arts): Selected topics in monetary theory, the theory of monetary policy, and the history of monetary institutions.

Offered by: Economics

• Terms
  • Winter 2013
• Instructors
  • Jagdish Handa

Economics (Arts): Selected problems in international trade, foreign exchange and international movements of capital.

Offered by: Economics

• Terms
  • Winter 2013
• Instructors
  • Ngo Van Long

Economics (Arts)

Offered by: Economics

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the academic year

Economics (Arts): Topics in environmental economics.

Offered by: Economics

• Terms
  • Winter 2013
• Instructors
  • Hassan Benchekroun

Economics (Arts): Problems of economic growth and planning in selected underdeveloped countries. Topics covered vary from year to year in response to student interests; growth, poverty and income distribution, LDC labour markets and institutions, trade and development, international debt problems, issues in trade policy.

Offered by: Economics

• Terms
  • Winter 2013
• Instructors
  • Sonia C Laszlo, Franque Grimard

Economics (Arts): Builds on material covered in ECON 637. Problems are examined in greater depth with specific topics varying from year to year.

Offered by: Economics

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the academic year

Economics (Arts): Selected theoretical and policy issues in labour economics.

Offered by: Economics

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the academic year

Economics (Arts): Surveys the empirical techniques used in applied microeconomic fields, particularly development and labour economics. Focus is on the formulation of empirical models derived from economic theory, and on various estimation methodologies, including panel data econometrics, limited dependent variable models, and duration analysis. A "hands on" approach is emphasized.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite: First term of ECON 662 and either ECON 634 or ECON 641, or consent of the instructor

• Terms
  • Winter 2013
• Instructors
  • Matthieu Chemin

Economics (Arts): The emphasis will be on describing and analyzing the structure and performance of the Canadian health system, though some attention will be given to recent attempts by the federal and provincial governments to deal with current problems in this field. Readings will be selected from the economics and health literature.

Offered by: Economics

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the academic year

Economics (Arts): Topics of interest to the students and staff. These topics will be in areas other than those covered by existing courses and particular attention will be paid to critiques of neoclassical economic theory.

Offered by: Economics

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the academic year

Economics (Arts): Selected topics in monetary economics and international finance for advanced graduate work in this area.

Offered by: Economics

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the academic year

Economics (Arts): Theory and application of linear, non-linear expectational and asymptotic time series models to economic phenomena. Probabilistic models of economic dynamics and experimental economies, including simulation.

Offered by: Economics

• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ECON 762
• Offered only in some years

• Terms
  • Fall 2012
• Instructors
  • Russell Davidson

Economics (Arts): Exact and asymptotic distribution theory in econometrics: basic results for estimation and inference in regression models, extensions and other selected topics including nonparametric and distribution-free methods for econometric models.

Offered by: Economics

• Terms
  • Fall 2012
• Instructors
  • Victoria Zinde-Walsh

Economics (Arts): This course covers advanced time series methods used in the analysis of financial data and other potentially non-stationary time series. Topics: integrated time series, co-integration, unit root testing, conditional heteroscedasticity, long memory, non-parametric and neural network models. Applications include market efficiency, stochastic volatility and predictability of asset returns.

Offered by: Economics

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the academic year

Economics (Arts): A review of mathematical techniques used in modern finance theory, including measure theory and stochastic processes in continuous time (e.g., Brownian motion) and other techniques essential to understanding arbitrage pricing theory, including the pricing of options.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.

• Terms
  • Winter 2013
• Instructors
  • Russell Davidson