| source Georgetown (X) |
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department International Political Economy (X) |
Permission of SFS Dean's Office required.
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Permission of SFS Dean's Office required.
Score: 12.807569 Details | Listing | Web page
Permission of SFS Dean's Office required.
Score: 12.807569 Details | Listing | Web page
This course offers a brief introduction to a number of different applications of ânewâ political economy to important economic questions. The purpose of the course is twofold. The first purpose is to give you an understanding of the importance of politics for economic policy making in general, and to confirm this by offering a brief oversight of political economy applications across the spectrum of economic issues. The second purpose is to wet your appetite for the study of political economy, and encourage you to identify questions you find particularly interesting. You can then learn more about these questions in other more focused courses, since this course by construction and purpose only offers a brief oversight of each question. The notion of ânewâ political economy (by some referred to as âpolitical economicsâ) refers to a literature that uses formalized models based on game theory and neo-classical economic theory to theoretically analyze the questions in mind, and econometrics to empirically test whether the predictions of the models are consistent with the available data. Hence, some of the material we will cover in this course will be in the style of formalized models, and applied econometric studies, so the intention is that you should also walk out of this class with a somewhat better understanding of these important tools for economic analysis.
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This topic course in political economy is focused on two sets of literature; the economic literature on political economy of economic reforms, and the literature on corruption. The purpose of the course is to offer you an overview over the findings in these two fields, but also to give you some training in economic methodology. The examination is in the form of two written term papers, so it also serves the purpose of giving you some practice in how to write, which will be useful when you write your senior thesis your last semester. The first part of the course covers the literature on the political economy of economic reforms, dealing with political reasons for why socially beneficial reforms are delayed or simply not implemented. Students should be aware of that this part of the course focuses on formal economic modeling, so an interest in the formal side of economics is recommendable. In the second part of the course we learn about corruption. The focus here is on the empirical part of the literature, which tries to understand what causes corruption, and what the consequences of corruption are. In terms of methodology this part gives us an opportunity to practice our skills in applied econometrics.
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In this course we will talk about the political economy literature on growth, redistribution, income inequality and poverty. The bulk of the course is devoted to the political economy of growth, but the topics are clearly related, as you will see. Income inequality may have an impact on growth rates through incentives for redistribution, and growth may, or may not, have an impact on income inequality and poverty, etc. The purpose of the course is twofold. First of all I hope that you will leave this class with more knowledge about the impact of different political variables and institutions on growth rates, income inequality and poverty. Secondly, we will throughout the course go through some formal, but relatively simple, economic models and we will talk about papers that use econometrics to derive empirical regularities. The second purpose is thus to increase your understanding of an economists âtool kitâ, and to this end we start out the course with two lectures on the very crude basics of econometrics.
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Credits: 3
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This course examines: 1) the application of economic theory to the study of legal institutions and 2) how legal institutions affect the economic behavior of individuals. The first three weeks are devoted to an overview of the subject and a review of basic ideas in both economics and law. The next several weeks are spent examining how economics has been applied to major areas of the law including constitutional law and public choice, property rights, contracts, torts, criminal law, and antitrust regulation. The final weeks are look at how the discipline can be applied to international issues such as trade, environmental treaties, and comparative law.
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