ECON 490

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Topics in Economics

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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Special topics in advanced economics within a variety of areas. See course schedule for topics.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated in the same or separate terms to a maximum of 9 undergraduate hours or 8 graduate hours if topics vary. Prerequisite: ECON 202; ECON 302 or ECON 303; MATH 220 or MATH 221 or other Calculus course. Some topics may require additional prerequisites, read the section text for each topic.

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ECON 490 class schedule data for summer 2022
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	37783	Online	A3	ARRANGED	n.a.	n.a.	Vazquez, J	Part of Term: S2 Date Range: 06/13/22-08/04/22 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Economic Growth Section Info: DETAILS: All exams will be taken online using ProctorU, an online proctoring service that allows students to take exams remotely. Students will be responsible for the ProctorU exam charges ($16 per student per 1-hour exam at the time of winter 2021-22 registration). This course uses Moodle. DESCRIPTION for Economic Growth: The course is designed to inspect some fundamental questions in the world economy- What are the primary factors driving the per capita GDP growth of any particular country? What explains the convergence or divergence patterns of growth rates across nations? Firstly, we focus on factor accumulation; namely physical and human capital, as well as population growth. Then we focus on technology, productivity and efficiency, which are the main sources of sustained economic growth. Finally we focus on the fundamentals, such as institutions and government. The objective of the course is to enable students to apply the knowledge of macroeconomic theory and mathematical tools to address issues in growth. REQUIRED PREREQUISITES: ECON 302 & 303. RECOMMENDED: Basic knowledge of any statistical software. R/Excel/ Stata may be used in a few classes.
	38495	Online	A4	ARRANGED	n.a.	n.a.	Vazquez, J	Part of Term: S2 Date Range: 06/13/22-08/04/22 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Economic Growth Section Info: Graduate credit requires a project or paper beyond the standard undergraduate course work. Please contact instructor as soon as instruction begins for details. Please see section A3 for further course information. Restriction(s): Restricted to MS:Economics:Policy Econ -UIUC.