ECON 282 - Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory I

★ 3 (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Models of price, interest rate, output, and employment determination; the impact of fiscal, monetary, and supply shocks; open economy macroeconomics with fixed and flexible exchange rates, and prices as well as international capital mobility. Prerequisite: ECON 101 and 102 or consent of Department.

ECON 341 - Money and Banking

★ 3 (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Financial intermediation, commercial banking, central banking, securities markets, and regulation of the banking and financial sectors, the money supply process and monetary control. Prerequisites: ECON 109 and ECON 282. Students may not receive credit for both ECON 341 and FIN 414.

ECON 486 - Macroeconomics and Asset Pricing

★ 3 (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

The course explores the intersection of macroeconomics and financial economics, using growth, business-cycle and asset pricing theories to motivate a series of data projects that cover the long run and short run determinants of interest rates, equity premium, cyclical patterns of bond and equity returns, monetary policy, CAPM and other factor models. Prerequisites: ECON 282, ECON 299, MATH 156 or equivalent, and ECON 109.

ECON 586 - Macroeconomics and Asset Pricing

★ 3 (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

The course explores the intersection of macroeconomics and financial economics, using growth, business-cycle and asset pricing theories to motivate a series of data projects that cover the long run and short run determinants of interest rates, equity premium, cyclical patterns of bond and equity returns, monetary policy, CAPM and other factor models.