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Economics FME Option Courses


ECON 635 [1]

Course Title: 
Money and Banking
Minimum Credits: 
4
Study of interest rates, financial markets, financial institutions, monetary institutions, the supply of money, the demand for money, monetary theory, and monetary policy. Prereq: ECON 401 and 402.

Course Prerequisites: 
ECON 401 [2]
ECON 402 [3]

ECON 645 [6]

Course Title: 
International Economics
Minimum Credits: 
4
Covers both international trade theory and open-economy macroeconomics. Some of the major issues include whether free trade is always preferred to restricted trade, the controversy over industrial policy and how best to structure the international financial system. Students gain an understanding of topics including currency exchange rate movements, macroeconomic adjustment mechanisms and trade policy, among others. Prereq: ECON 401 and 402.

Course Prerequisites: 
ECON 401 [7]
ECON 402 [8]

ECON 698 [11]

Course Title: 
Topics
Minimum Credits: 
4
Special topics. May be repeated. Prereq: permission. Writing intensive.

ECON 711 [14]

Course Title: 
Economic Fluctuations
Minimum Credits: 
4
Recurrent movements of prosperity and depression; emphasis on causes and pubic policy implications. Prereq: ECON 611;/or permission. Writing intensive.

Course Prerequisites: 
ECON 611 [15]

ECON 735 [18]

Course Title: 
Economics of Financial Markets
Minimum Credits: 
4
Economic analysis of financial market systems. Topics include financial market functions, theories of saving and investment, financial intermediation, flow-of-funds analysis, loanable funds theory, interest rate forecasting, portfolio theory, capital-asset pricing models, structure of interest rates (including term-structure theory), and macroeconomic models of the financial sector. Prereq: ECON 635.

Course Prerequisites: 
ECON 635 [19]

ECON 736 [22]

Course Title: 
Seminar in Monetary Theory and Policy
Minimum Credits: 
4
Contemporary developments in monetary theory and the evaluation of policy measures. Prereq: ECON 635. Writing intensive.

Course Prerequisites: 
ECON 635 [23]

ECON 746 [26]

Course Title: 
International Finance
Minimum Credits: 
4
International monetary mechanism; balance of payments, international investment; exchange rates, adjustment systems, international liquidity, foreign aid, multinational corporations. Prereq: ECON 611; ECON 645. Writing intensive.

Course Prerequisites: 
ECON 611 [27]
ECON 645 [28]

ECON 798 [31]

Course Title: 
Topics: Industrial Organization
Minimum Credits: 
1
Special Topics Course

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