300-level Courses & Outlines

Economics (Arts): Analysis of the market for money; its macroeconomic effects; the theory and policy of central banking; monetary policy rules, the Taylor Rule, inflation targeting, quantitative easing; central bank independence; currency boards; commercial banking and economic stability; regulated versus free banking; cross-border banking and policy.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisites: ECON 208 and ECON 209
• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ECON 302D1/D2 (6 credits).

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Economics (Arts): Economic analysis of initiating, assembling, pricing and marketing equities of bonds, bills and complex financial instruments; financial innovation; its implications for financial stability and market failure; banks as brokers, underwriters, market makers and international allocators of credit; strategies of private and public agents operating in financial markets, monetary history.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisites: ECON 208 and ECON 209
• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ECON 302D1/D2 (6 credits).

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Economics (Arts): The course analyzes the structure, conduct, and performance of industries, particularly but not exclusively in Canada. Topics include effects of mergers, barriers to entry, product line and promotion policies, vertical integration, and R & D policies of firms.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisites: ECON 208 and ECON 209.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Economics (Arts): Examination of the implications on wage structures of differences in job conditions, levels and type training, long-term employment relationships, unionization etc. A variety of socioeconomic policy issues including subsidies for higher education, government regulation of workplace safety, and the role and treatment of women in today's labour force are explored.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisites: ECON 208 and ECON 209, or ECON 230D1/D2, or ECON 250D1/D2
• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ECON 306D1/D2.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Economics (Arts): Covers the major public policies toward business in Canada, such as competition policy, regulation, public ownership and privatization, industrial policies, and trade policies. Includes comparison with policies of other countries, especially the U.S. Readings will include some legal decisions.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisites: ECON 208 and ECON 209.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Economics (Arts): An introduction to economic decision-making in markets and strategic environments, including bounded rationality, individual decision-making under uncertainty, and behavioural game theory.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisites: ECON 208 and a statistics course or permission of the instructor.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Economics (Arts): Microeconomic theories of economic development and empirical evidence on population, labour, firms, poverty. Inequality and environment.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite: ECON 208 and either ECON 209 or one development course.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Economics (Arts): Macroeconomic development issues, including theories of growth, public finance, debt, currency crises, corruption, structural adjustment, democracy and global economic organization.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite: ECON 313

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Economics (Arts): The origins, structure and operation of the "underground" sectors of modern economies around the world. Topics include the causes of black marketeering in Western economies; international contraband trade in guns and drugs; money laundering through the world financial system.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisites: ECON 208 and ECON 209 or those listed under Prerequisites above

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Economics (Arts): A seminar course focusing on the nature and operation of criminal enterprise in markets for goods, services and factors of production within advanced industrial economies. Topics include the debate over "organized'' crime; the structure of the criminal firm; labour racketeering; and crime in the money and capital markets.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite: ECON 316.
• Restriction: Departmental approval required

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Economics (Arts): Review of economic knowledge on the causes and consequences of financial and economic crises such as that which began in August 2007.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite(s): ECON 208 and ECON 209

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Economics (Arts): Macroeconomic and structural aspects of the ecological crisis. A course in which subjects discussed include the conflict between economic growth and the laws of thermodynamics; the search for alternative economic indicators; the fossil fuels crisis; and "green'' fiscal policy.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisites: ECON 208 and ECON 209 or consent of instructor

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Economics (Arts): A review of basic economic concepts and tools with an in depth and critical presentation of the fundamental areas of macroeconomic theory. Topics include: the measurement of economic aggregates, economic growth, and the consumption-savings decision and other basic elements of a business cycle.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisites: ECON 230D1/2 or ECON 250D1/2.
• Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ECON 330D1/D2.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Economics (Arts): A review of basic economic concepts and tools with an in depth and critical presentation of the fundamental areas of macroeconomic theory. Topics include: money and banking and business cycles, stabilization policy, and international finance.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite: ECON 332
• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ECON 330D1/2.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Economics (Arts): The course surveys the development of economics, how the discipline and the thinking of economists evolved, and the significance of some of the analytical tools used.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisites: ECON 208 and ECON 209 or those listed under Prerequisites above

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Economics (Arts): The first part of the course covers the economic institutions in, changing structure of, and public policies employed by the Japanese economy. The second part probes the economic "logic" of the Japanese capitalist system, explores its relationship to the ideas of Joseph Schumpeter, and makes comparisons with the American economy.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisites: ECON 208 and ECON 209 or those listed under Prerequisites above

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Economics (Arts): Examination of the growth and transformation of the Chinese economy and the domestic and international implications.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisites: ECON 208 and ECON 209 (or ECON 230D1/D2 or 250D1/D2).

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Economics (Arts): The practical application of quantitative methods in statistical investigations.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite: a grade of 65% or better in ECON 227 or ECON 257 or an equivalent qualification in statistics. Familiarity with matrix algebra is highly recommended.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Economics (Arts): Estimation and forecasting using simultaneous equation systems, dynamic simulation, time series analysis.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite: ECON 337

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Economics (Arts): The course focuses on the economic implications of, and problems posed by, predictions of global warming due to anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. Attention is given to economic policies such as carbon taxes and tradeable emission permits and to the problems of displacing fossil fuels with new energy technologies.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisites: ECON 208 and ECON 209 or those listed under Prerequisites above

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Economics (Arts): Conceptual and mathematical models used to understand the spatial distribution of economic activity. Analysis of a variety of policy issues related to cities, such as urban transportation, pollution, housing, poverty, and crime.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisites: ECON 230D1, ECON 230D2, ECON 227D1, ECON 227D2 or equivalent, or permission of the instructor.
• Restriction: For U2 or U3 students only.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Economics (Arts): An examination of the theoretical and empirical issues of gender and economics. Emphasis is placed on gender in the context of household economics, labour economics, development economics and a critical assessment of economic policies in these spheres. Gender norms (for example, traditional gender roles, dowries, son preferences) will be explored in how they interact with economics. Material is drawn from Canada, OECD and the Global South to address debates, policies and examples around gender equality and gender gaps.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisites: ECON 230D1/D2

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Economics (Arts): Basic macroeconomic theory, emphasizing the Classical and Keynesian ideas for the short-run determination of output, employment, interest rates and prices in the economy.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisites: ECON 250D1/ECON 250D2
• Corequisite: ECON 257D1
• Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ECON 352D1/D2.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Economics (Arts): Elements of international economics, money and banking and growth theory. The structure of the Canadian economy.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite: ECON 353
• Corequisite: ECON 257D2
• Not open to students who have taken ECON 352D1/D2.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Economics (Arts): Internship with an approved host institution or organization.

Offered by: Economics

• Restriction: Open to U2 and U3 students with a minimum CGPA of 3.0 and permission of the departmental Internship Advisor. This course will not fulfill program requirements for honours, major or minor programs. A letter from a supervisor at the institution must attest to the successful completion of the student's tenure. The topic must fall within the student's program in economics and have the prior approval of a faculty member in the department.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year