68 courses with the subject ECO, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
Sustainable development, with a natural emphasis on non-Western nations; will consider issues around such topics as demographics, development theories, the environment, health and education, the role of institutions, etc.
Exploration of topics in popular culture and public policy using the lens of economics. Topics may include entertainment, sports, technology, and policy issues in fields such as health, education, and the environment. Economic concepts include supply and demand, opportunity cost, scarcity, and incentives.
Introduction to microeconomic principles and analysis. Topics include: the market economy, supply and demand, shortages and surpluses, competition and monopoly, international trade, and public policy issues.
Introduction to macroeconomic principles and analysis. Topics include the national income, the monetary system, inflation, business cycles, fiscal policy, the national debt, exchange rates, balance of payments, and economic growth.
Introduction to statistical methods with applications in economics and business. Topics include descriptive statistics, probability, statistical inference, correlation, and regression. Emphasis on problem solving with microcomputer applications.
Examines the history, structure, and institutional foundations of the international trading system. Analyzes the impact of trade on economic growth, employment and living standards with a focus on contemporary issues.
This number reserved for experimental courses. Refer to the Course Schedule for current offerings.
Intermediate level analysis of consumer theory and theory of the firm. Other topics include market failure, savings and investment, risk and uncertainty, wage determination, and income distribution.
Intermediate level analysis of national income and employment with attention to fiscal and monetary policy, theories of business fluctuations, and economic growth.
Economic analysis of technological change. Topics include sources of productivity, inventive activity, entrepreneurship, innovation strategy, RD management, patenting, and technology assessment.
Study of entrepreneurship from history of economic thought perspective and application of such concepts to economic agents. Emphasis on economic thought, market activity, and economic growth.
Introduction to mathematical methods in economics. Includes applications of mathematics to consumer and production theory, equilibrium analysis, input-output models, and optimization.
The analysis of taxes and expenditures. Topics include: rationale for government (public goods, externalities), expenditure analysis (including income redistribution), tax analysis (including income, sales, and property taxes).
Economic theory of sports leagues: competitive balance, player labor markets, and owner capital markets. Theories of league expansion, rival leagues, franchise relocation, and sports venues.
Emphasis on legal, institutional, and economic forces which mutually interact to determine supply of money. Elementary monetary theory and monetary flows, institutions, policies, and problems analyzed. International as well as domestic monetary analysis.
Continuation of ECO 250. Inference about population variance, inference about two populations, analysis of variance, bivariate regression, and multiple regression with empirical applications to business and economics using statistical software.
The application of statistical models and methods to economic data and models. Topics include linear regression, interpretation of results, hypothesis testing, and specification testing.
Analysis of balance of payments and international monetary systems. Monetary and fiscal policies under the gold standard, fixed exchange, and flexible exchange systems. Breakdown of the Bretton Woods system and the current exchange rate policies of central banks.
The history of economic thought and criticism since the eighteenth century. Major topics include classical economics, socialism, communism, marginalism, Keynesianism, corporatism, Austrian economics, monetarism, developmentalism, neoliberalism, and modern anti-market revolutions.
Explore how to prepare data for analysis and learn practical skills (including inputting data, variable construction, and sample selection), how to find problems with data (such as missing data or outliers), how to describe data using figures and tables, and how to perform basic data analysis. Introduces Stata, analysis software.
Investigation of the determinants of the long-run economic growth of nations. Application of economic concepts to problems of developing and lesser developed countries.
Examination of wage and employment determination in U.S. labor markets. Topics include labor supply and labor demand theory, investments in education and training, job search and migration, unemployment, unions, racial and sex discrimination, income inequality, and public policy.
Examination of environmental problems in market economies. Topics include the economic theory of pollution and its control, common-property resources, renewable and other resources, endangered species, population growth, and international problems.
This course explores problems with the American healthcare system including high rates of uninsurance and healthcare costs. We will investigate health inequities across groups and problems with our healthcare system revealed by the pandemic. We will focus on implications for public policy, including the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).
Individual study of economic problems of special interest to the student. Regular conferences with instructor required.
Campus-monitored, supervised off-campus internships that involve the application of economic analysis and methods and develop professional skills. Minimum of fifty supervised internship hours per one credit hour earned.
Honors Work.
Examination of market failure, public goods, economic efficiency, and income incidence, allocative effects, and public policy.
Independent study, research, and discussion covering a topic or group of related topics of current interest in economic policy or economic theory. Topics covered vary from semester to semester.
Individual study of an advanced topic in economics. Regular conferences with the instructor are required.
Advanced techniques in data preparation. Topics include data formats, error checking, merging data, large data sets, and missing observations. Students work extensively with SAS.
Methods used by health economists to evaluate health care technologies and programs. Learn how to critique and use health economic evaluations, common health economic evaluation tools and methods.
Provides applied foundation for policy study with emphasis on an economic efficiency perspective including history of policy analysis, market and government failure, and alternative methods for policy analysis.
Examines the market for health services and the production of health. Topics include the demand and supply for health care professionals, health insurance and financing, and regulation of medical markets.
Theory of consumer and firm behavior under certainty and uncertainty including exchange, production, income distribution, market structure and welfare economics.
Examination of market failures that can occur within competitive, decentralized market systems. Topics include market power, uncertainty, asymmetric information, externalities, and public goods.
Introduction to advanced econometric applications. Topics may include seemingly unrelated regressions, simultaneous equations, identification, two-stage least squares, and sample selection models. Application to economic data using statistical software emphasized.
Foundations of mathematical statistics and linear econometric models. Topics include discrete and continuous probability distributions, random sampling and asymptotic analysis, the linear regression model, hypothesis testing, and statistical programming and simulation using SAS or other statistical software.
Advanced theory of aggregate economic activity. Economic models developed to explain economic growth, activity, and fluctuations based on classical, Keynesian, monetarist, and new classical schools of thought.
Economic analysis of markets, and government intervention that addresses the sustainability of fiscal, monetary and exchange rate policy and their short-run and long-run impact on the global environment.
Provides a working knowledge of statistical tools important to the emerging and practically relevant field of predictive data mining and the discovery of patterns in big data sets.
Students learn to analyze and forecast time series data. Topics include stochastic linear difference equations, tests for trends and stationarity, and ARIMA modeling. Application to economic data emphasized.
Individual course of study consisting of an applied economics and/or data analysis component and written work that complements the program's academic work. Supervised by faculty and an appropriate manager.
Analyzes how consumers and producers make economic decisions, focusing on theoretical models and their applications. Students will learn how consumers make purchasing decisions, how firms optimize production and profits, and how these decisions change under uncertainty. Topics include consumer demand theory, game theory, production theory, and optimization methods.
Provides an overview of the tools of modern macroeconomic theory. Students will gain an understanding of these tools, their limits, and their application to policy issues.
Focuses on the statistical concepts and methods necessary to analyze and apply linear econometric models. Topics cover the foundations of mathematical statistics and linear regression modeling.
Individual study of an advanced topic in economics. Regular conferences with the instructor are required.
Advanced techniques in data preparation. Topics include data formats, error checking, merging data, large data sets, and missing observations.
Methods used by health economists to evaluate health care technologies and programs. Learn how to critique and use health economic evaluations, common health economic evaluation tools and methods.
Provides applied foundation for policy study with emphasis on an economic efficiency perspective including history of policy analysis, market and government failure, and alternative methods for policy analysis.
Examines public-sector innovation policies from a domestic and global perspective.
Examines the operation of the labor market, its institutions, and labor market policies. Topics include labor supply and demand, returns to education, family and household economics, wage inequality, and unions.
Examines governmental expenditures and taxes and the constraints imposed on them within a federal, multi-tiered governmental structure. Topics include education, public health, housing and community development, infrastructure, and environmental regulation.
Examines the market for health services and the production of health. Topics include the demand and supply for health care professionals, health insurance and financing, and regulation of medical markets.
Application of economic theory and econometrics to a specific topic in public, labor, or health.
A faculty-directed, independent study of a research area that is particularly related to a student's primary field of interest.
Mathematical concepts and techniques that are used in advanced economic theory. Material includes sets and functions, constrained and unconstrained programming, and difference and differential equations.
Examines decision making by households and firms with an emphasis on the meaning and empirical interpretation of theoretical models. Topics include duality theory, general equilibrium, and welfare economics.
Focuses on estimation and inference in linear and non-linear econometric models. Topics include endogeneity, causal inference, panel data, and limited and qualitative dependent variable models.
Advanced methods in microeconomic analysis, covers linear models for panel data with unobserved heterogeneity, M-estimators, maximum likelihood, generalized methods of moments, and discrete response models. Includes lab.
Introduction to graduate-level time series econometrics. Provides a foundation in time series methods that can be applied in high level empirical research. Focuses on theoretical topics and applications. Topics include time series regressions, univariate stationary time series models, univariate and non-stationary time series models, and multivariate models.
Examines research methods used in advanced applied economics. Applications vary by semester but are typically drawn from labor, health, public, or financial economics.
Individual course of study consisting of an applied economics and/or data analysis component and written work that complements the program's academic work. Supervised by faculty and an appropriate manager.
A supervised seminar in which students formulate a major empirical research project and identify, collect, and assemble the data required to pursue that research.
A supervised research seminar in which students complete an extensive review of the literature in their chosen area of research specialization.
Dissertation Extension.
Research Extension.
Source: University of North Carolina at Greensboro's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
