Field / Elective Courses
The Economics Graduate Program currently offers elective coursework in the following areas. Two-course field sequences are available in Agricultural Economics, Econometrics, Industrial Organization, International TradeNatural Resource & Envrionmental Economics, and Macroeconomics.
Agricultural Economics
Courses
- ECG 590 – US Agricultural Policy
- ECG 741 – Agricultural Production and Supply
- ECG 742 – Consumption, Demand, and Market Interdependency
Faculty
- A. Blake Brown
- Edmund A. Estes
- Paul L. Fackler
- Barry Goodwin
- Michele Marra
- Arnold W. Oltmans
- Nicholas E. Piggott
- Roderick Rejesus
- Mitchell Renkow
- Charles D. Safley
- Wally Thurman
- Tomislav Vukina
- Michael K. Wohlgenant
- Kelly Zering
Natural Resource & Environmental Economics
Courses
- ECG 515 – Environmental and Resource Policy
- ECG 590 – Dynamic Environmental and Resource Management
- ECG 715 – Environmental and Resource Economics
- ECG 716 – Topics in Environmental and Resource Economics
Faculty
- Zack Brown
- Michele Marra
- Laura Taylor
- Roger von Haefen
- Paul Fackler
Industrial Organization / Microeconomics
Courses
- ECG 512 — Law and Economics
- ECG 590 – Competition, Monopoly and Public Policy
- ECG 590 – Foundations of Capitalism
- ECG 590 – Public Finance
- ECG 706 – Industrial Organization
- ECG 707 – Topics in Industrial Organization
- ECG 790 – Game Theory
Faculty
Health and Labor Economics
Courses
- ECG 537 – Health Economics
- ECG 590 – Labor Economics
- ECG 730 – Topics in Labor Economics
Faculty
- Steve Allen — labor
- Robert L. Clark — labor
- Lee Craig — economic history
- Alvin E. Headen, Jr. — health
- Tamah Morant — education, household
- Melinda Morrill — labor, health
- Walter Wessels — labor
Macro/International Economics
Courses
- ECG 548 – International Trade
- ECG 748 – Theory of International Trade
- ECG 749 – Monetary Aspects of International Trade
- ECG 784 – Advanced Macroeconomics
- ECG 785 — Monetary Economics
Faculty
- Mehmet Caner
- Giuseppe Fiori
- Barry Goodwin
- Tom Grennes
- Ivan Kandilov
- John Lapp
- Michael McElroy
- Doug Pearce
- John Seater
- Nora Traum
Development Economics
Courses
- ECG 540 – Economic Development
- ECG 739 – Economic Growth and Development I
Faculty
Econometrics
Courses
- ECG 561 – Intermediate Econometrics
- ECG 562 – Topics in Applied Econometrics
- ECG 750 – Introduction to Econometric Methods
- ECG 751 – Topics in Econometrics
- ECG 752 – Time Series Econometrics
- ECG 753 – Microeconometrics
- ECG 790 – Microeconometrics with Simulations