Classes

Ec 2450b Public Economics and Fiscal Policy II

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2013

This course covers theoretical and empirical applications of public economics to policy debates. Topics include education, local public finance, fiscal federalism, housing policy, corporate and international taxation, social security, and macroeconomic stabilization using fiscal policy.

Ec 1435 Macroeconomic Policy in the Global Economy

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2013

Uses simple models and empirical methods to analyze key macroeconomic policy challenges confronting the world economy. Examines balance of payments, the determinants of exchange rates, fiscal policy, monetary policy, exchange rate policy, balance of payment crises, international macroeconomic dependence, financial globalization and the challenges facing developing economies. Considerable attention to recent policy debates surrounding the financial crisis, global imbalances, China's exchange rate policy, Sovereign Wealth Funds, the Euro and Europe's crisis, and Japan's lost decade. While...

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Ec 2010d Economic Theory

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2013

A basic course in graduate macroeconomics, including models of business fluctuations, analyses of monetary and fiscal policy, and introduction to open economy macroeconomic issues. Prerequisite: Mathematics 116 or the equivalent; can be taken concurrently.

Ec 2010d Economic Theory

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2010

A basic course in graduate macroeconomics, including models of business fluctuations, analyses of monetary and fiscal policy, and introduction to open economy macroeconomic issues.

Ec 2010c Economic Theory

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2008

Topics include discrete-time and continuous-time dynamic programming, consumption, investment, economic growth, and business cycles.

Note: Enrollment is strictly limited to PhD students in the Economics Department, Business Economics program, and PEG program. Qualified Harvard undergraduates may also enroll. No other students may take the course for credit or as auditors.

Ec 980l Macroeconomics & Politics

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2008

Topics include the political economy of economic growth, including the roles of democracy and legal institutions; inflation, monetary policy, fiscal policy, and analyses of economic and monetary unions.