400-level Courses & Outlines

Economics (Arts): Topics include: Malthusian and Ricardian Scarcity; optimal depletion of renewable and non-renewable resources; exploration, risk and industry structure, and current resources, rent and taxation. Current public policies applied to the resource industries, particularly those of a regulatory nature.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite: ECON 230 or ECON 250

• 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): Selected policy issues are investigated using economic theory. For details on topics covered in the current year, consult the instructor.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisites: ECON 230 or ECON 250 and one of ECON 227, ECON 257

• 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): Theoretical and empirical economic analysis of the public sector with an emphasis on public goods and government spending. Study of Canadian institutions in international perspective.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite: ECON 230D1/D2 or 250D1/D2 or permission of the instructor.
• Not open to students who have already completed ECON 408D1/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): Theoretical and empirical economic analysis of the public sector with an emphasis on taxation. Study of Canadian institutions in international perspective.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite: ECON 408 or permission of the instructor
• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ECON 408D1/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): An advanced course in the economic development of a pre-designated underdeveloped country or a group of countries.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisites: ECON 230 or ECON 250 and one semester of economic development

• 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): This course gives students a broad overview of the economics of developing countries. The course covers micro and macro topics, with particular emphasis on the economic analysis at the micro level.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite(s): ECON 230 or ECON 250 and ECON 227D1/D2 or equivalent, 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): The course discusses selected topics in micro or macroeconomic theory at an advanced level. Possible topics include welfare economics, general equilibrium, theories of firms, consumer behaviour, intertemporal choice, uncertainty, game theory, etc.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite: ECON 230 or ECON 250

• 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 the theory and policy of international trade. Topics examined include: classical and modern theories of trade; tariffs; labour and capital mobility; trade and development; the WTO.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite: ECON 230D1/D2 or ECON 250D1/D2
• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ECON 423D1/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 the theory and policy of international financial relations. Topics examined include: the balance of payments; exchange rates; global capital markets; the international monetary system.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite: ECON 230D1/D2 or ECON 250D1/D2
• Corequisite: ECON 330D1 or ECON 352D1
• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ECON 423D1/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 determinants of labour supply, demand and the structure of earnings are considered. The economic effects of government policies, such as minimum wage laws, unemployment insurance, welfare and training programs and subsidies to higher education are analyzed. A rigorous theoretical and "hands on'' empirical approach is emphasized.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite: ECON 230D1/D2 or ECON 250D1/D2 or 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): Definition, measurement, and determinants of subjective well-being and their implications for policy, growth, and the environment.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisites: ECON 230D1/D2 or ECON 250D1/D2; ECON 227D1/D2 or ECON 257D1/D2 or equivalent; MATH 122 or MATH 139 or MATH 140 or MATH 150 or permission of instructor.
• Restrictions: ECON 430 is not open to students who have taken or are taking ENVR 430.

• 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 discussion of contemporary economic problems. Topics will reflect economic issues of current interest.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite: ECON 230 or ECON 250.
• Corequisite: ECON 330 or ECON 352

• 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): Foundations for empirical methods in causal inference in empirical economics. Standard Ordinary Least Squares model and its limitations, counterfactual analysis, including randomized experiments, instrumental variables, difference-in-differences, regression discontinuity.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite(s): ECON 337, ECON 338

• 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 organization and performance of Canada's health care system are examined from an economist's perspective. The system is described and its special features analyzed. Much attention is given to the role of government in the system and to financing arrangements for hospital and medical services. Current financial problems are discussed.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisites: ECON 208 and ECON 227 or comparable courses or consent 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): This course considers how uncertainty can be incorporated into the standard model of consumer and producer choice central to explaining or analysing a number of different economic phenomena. Topics include the information approach to explaining unemployment and problems in controlling health care costs.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite: ECON 230 or ECON 250

• 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): Selected topics in economic theory from recent periodical and monograph literature.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisites: ECON 250D1/ECON 250D2 and ECON 352D1/ECON 352D2
• Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken ECON 450D1 and ECON 450D2.

• 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): Selected topics in economic theory from recent periodical and monograph literature.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisites: ECON 250D1/ECON 250D2 and ECON 352D1/ECON 352D2
• Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken ECON 450D1 and ECON 450D2.

• 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 theories (classical and 'new trade theories') that analyze the impact of trade between nations are presented. In addition to the economic analysis of trade policies other topics such as trade in cultural goods, multilateral trade agreements, free trade and the environment may be covered.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite: ECON 250D1/D2
• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ECON 453D1/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): This course examines major theoretical and policy issues in open-economy macroeconomics. Topics include exchange rate adjustments, currency crises, the current accounts, global imbalance, and related issues. Empirical studies will also be discussed.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite: ECON 250D1/D2
• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ECON 453D1/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): An advanced treatment of selected topics in monetary economics, including the theory and practice of monetary policy.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite: ECON 230 or ECON 250, and knowledge of calculus.
• Restriction: For Honours in Economics
• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ECON 458

• 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 evolution of economic thought prior to the close of the 19th century, as reflected in the writings of prominent economists from the time of Adam Smith to the emergence of marginalism and neoclassical economics.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite: ECON 250
• Corequisite: ECON 352

• 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 evolution of economic thought in the 20th century, as reflected in the writings of prominent economists on equilibrium, dynamics, games, expectations, econometrics, industrial structure, economic policy and other primary areas of interest.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite: ECON 250.
• Corequisite: ECON 352

• 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): In this course economic theory is explicitly employed to elucidate issues in economic history. The topics will be announced at the beginning of the academic year.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisites: either ECON 227 or ECON 257, and either ECON 330 or ECON 352
• Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken ECON 451 before fall 2014.

• 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 statistical basis of econometric modelling and treatment of the linear regression model; simple time series models; procedures for inference in linear cases; an introduction to methods for dealing with endogeneity and non-constant variance.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite(s): ECON 257D1/D2 or permission of the instructor.
• Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken or are taking ECON 467D1/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): Treatment of asymptotic theory and classical inferential procedures, an introduction to the bootstrap, maximum likelihood, non-linear models, mis-specification testing, non-stationarity and limited dependent variable models.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite: ECON 468
• Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken or are taking ECON 467D1/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): Economics of income and wealth distribution, and the study of inequality. The dynamics of income, saving and wealth and their determinants. Macroeconomic implications. Effects of fiscal and redistributive programmes. The role of unemployment.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite: ECON 230 or ECON 250; ECON 227 or ECON 257 or equivalent; Calculus 1 and 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): In this course students must undertake a research project under close supervision. They must also do such special reading and research as their advisers direct.

Offered by: Economics

• Restrictions: Open to U3 students only. Not open to students who have taken ECON 481. A minimum average GPA of 3.15 is required in ECON 250D/230D, ECON 352D/330D and ECON 257D/227D as well as in all economics courses. Students must complete a Research Project Registration Form, have it signed by the professor who has agreed to supervise the research project, countersigned by the Director of the Undergraduate Program in Economics, and submit it to the Economics Department Office prior to registering in this course. A student cannot take this course more than once for credit.
• The duration and amount of work required for ECON 480 has to be commensurate with that for 400 level courses.

• 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