Courses

Applies administrative tax, education, and census datasets to intergenerational mobility, neighborhood effects, innovation, health disparities, and tax policy.

Constrained utility maximization, demand elasticity, production functions, competitive equilibrium, welfare theorems, monopoly pricing, oligopoly, externalities, and asymmetric information.

Formal analysis of strategic interaction in economic environments, developing static and dynamic games of complete and incomplete information, signaling, bargaining, and auction theory.

Microeconomic analysis of government fiscal policy, examining market failures, externalities, public goods, social insurance design, optimal taxation, and empirical policy evaluation.

Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee analyze poverty traps, randomized controlled trials, nutrition, preventive health, education incentives, microcredit, insurance, and institutional governance.

Linear regression, time-series econometrics, stochastic calculus, Itô's lemma, Black-Scholes option pricing, portfolio optimization, volatility modeling, and risk management.

Interdisciplinary research sequence at the interface of economics, causal inference, and algorithmic decision-making, studying performative prediction, strategic classification, and mechanism design.

Rigorous undergraduate introduction to strategic reasoning: dominance, Nash equilibrium, backward induction, subgame perfection, evolutionary games, asymmetric information, and auctions.

Close textual and theoretical seminar on Karl Marx's Capital, Volume 1, analyzing the commodity form, theories of value and surplus labor, primitive accumulation, and classical political economy.

National income accounting, IS-LM equilibrium, central bank monetary policy, inflation expectations, labor markets, Solow long-run growth, open-economy exchange rates, and financial crises.

Andrew Lo's foundational financial economics sequence covering framework of financial analysis, present value relations, yield curves, fixed-income securities, equities, portfolio theory, and market efficiency.

Intrinsic discounted cash flow valuation, equity risk premiums, cost of capital, growth estimation, terminal value, relative multiples, and valuing private and distressed firms.

Nobel laureate Robert Shiller examines the theory, history, and behavioral foundations of risk management, portfolio diversification, efficient markets, real estate, banking, and regulation.

Close reading of Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Max Weber, and Émile Durkheim.