ECON 590

Spring 2024

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Jan 16-May 1
Individual Study and Research
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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
64416
Lecture-Discussion
3Y2
3:30PM -4:50PM
MW
David Kinley Hall
Deltas, G
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/16/24-05/01/24
Credit:
2 hours
Section Title:
3RD YEAR PAPER WORKSHOP
Section Info:
All Economics PhD students in their 3rd year of the program as of the start date of this course should register for this CRN. Contact Dr. Deltas for details.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to PHD:Economics -UIUC.
58691
Lecture-Discussion
M4
9:30AM -10:50AM
TR
Armory
Bilias, Y
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/16/24-05/01/24
Credit:
4 hours
Section Title:
APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING: ECON
Section Info:
APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING: ECON | Students will gain exposure to a variety of data science topics such as data wrangling and cleaning, exploratory data analysis, inference, and prediction in Python.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to MS:Economics:Policy Econ -UIUC.
64076
Lecture-Discussion
P1
9:30AM -10:50AM
MW
David Kinley Hall
Marx, B
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/16/24-05/01/24
Credit:
4 hours
Section Title:
APPLIED PUBLIC ECONOMICS
Section Info:
This course will cover research in a variety of topics in public economics, including prominent aspects of taxation, social insurance, and public goods. Students will practice critically evaluating others’ research and developing their own research ideas, culminating in a proposal for or draft of an original paper. Students will use economic theory to highlight important questions and will assess the credibility of existing empirical and experimental evidence.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to PHD:Economics -UIUC.
60534
Lecture-Discussion
P2
11:00AM -12:20PM
MW
David Kinley Hall
Cunha Medeiros, M
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/16/24-05/01/24
Credit:
4 hours
Section Title:
HIGH-DIMENSIONAL 'METRICS
Restriction(s):
Restricted to PHD:Economics -UIUC.
16669
Lecture-Discussion
P3
9:30AM -10:50AM
TR
David Kinley Hall
Forsythe, E
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/16/24-05/01/24
Credit:
4 hours
Section Title:
LABOR ECONOMICS
Section Info:
DESCRIPTION for Labor Economics: Drawing on models from labor, macro, personnel, and organizational economics, this course focuses on building theory to integrate with empirical evidence. Students will learn workhorse models, including theories of search, agency, assignment, and wages, and practice the art of modeling new empirical results.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to PHD:Economics -UIUC.
62247
Lecture-Discussion
P4
11:00AM -12:20PM
TR
Animal Sciences Laboratory
Durandard, T
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/16/24-05/01/24
Credit:
4 hours
Section Title:
ECONOMIC ORGANIZATIONS
Section Info:
DESCRIPTION for Economic Organizations: Most activity in the modern economy takes place within, or is facilitated by, organizations. This course in Organizational Economics focuses on developing and deepening our understanding of firms and other organizations. Our central premise is that organizations are messes but not mysteries: many firm practices can be fruitfully understood as the outcome of firms’ strategic interactions with employees, suppliers, customers, and other partners. We will also see how these relationships change in response both to past actions taken by the participants and to the broader economic context. One goal of the course is that by the end of the semester, when faced with an empirical phenomenon, you should be able to write down a model to explain it. To reach this goal, the lectures will provide a set of general frameworks supplemented by stylized facts and empirical work. We will cover a variety of recent and classic papers on the theories of incentives, adaptation, relational contracts, and institutions. Many of the topics we will discuss are areas of active research, and consequently, we will ask many questions that have, at best, incomplete answers. As you approach the different topics in the class, ask yourself: what are the central frictions and trade-offs faced by strategic actors in this setting? What existing models help me understand this context? What are the key assumptions of the model that drive its main results? How reasonable are these assumptions? What would happen to the model if these assumptions are modified? And what important features are missing in those models?
Restriction(s):
Restricted to PHD:Economics -UIUC.
69410
Seminar
RW1
12:30PM -1:50PM
TR
David Kinley Hall
Osman, A
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/16/24-05/01/24
Credit:
2 hours
Section Title:
APPLIED MICRO RESEARCH WRKSHP
Restriction(s):
Restricted to PHD:Economics -UIUC.
33704
Seminar
RW2
12:30PM -1:50PM
R
David Kinley Hall
Xie, S
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/16/24-05/01/24
Credit:
1 hours
Section Title:
MACROECONOMIC RESEARCH WRKSHP
Section Info:
Macroeconomic-focused PhD students in the Department of Economics are invited to develop their research with the macroeconomic faculty.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to PHD:Economics -UIUC.
67461
Seminar
RW3
3:30PM -5:20PM
MWF
David Kinley Hall
Bernhardt, M
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/16/24-05/01/24
Credit:
2 hours
Section Title:
JOB MARKET RESEARCH WORKSHOP
Restriction(s):
Restricted to PHD:Economics -UIUC.
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