Curricula and Syllabi in Advanced Applied Economics

Syllabus for 260A: Comparative economics

Gérard Roland, University of California, Berkeley

This syllabus (.pdf) includes a list of readings to support a one-semester course in comparative economics from 2014.

Published or updated: 2014

FM423 Asset markets (Michaelmas term 2008)

Dimitri Vayanos, London School of Economics; Paul Woolley Centre for the Study of Capital Market Dysfunctionality

This is a syllabus for a Masters level course on asset markets as taught by Dimitri Vayanos of the London School of Economics. This is the core investments course in the MSc Finance Full-Time Programme. It aims to familiarize students with the workings of asset markets and the fundamental tools of asset valuation. Three important asset classes are covered: bonds (25%), stocks (50%), and derivatives (25%).

Published or updated: 2008

Political Economy of Western Europe

Suzanne Berger, MIT

Syllabus, reading list, assignments from a 2003 course that examines the "role of European states in postwar period of rapid economic growth and current crisis."

The materials are available in Traditional Chinese as well as in English.

Published or updated: 2003

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Development Economics: Microeconomic Issues and Policy Models

Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee, Michael Kremer, MIT

From an archived graduate-level course taught in 2002, this MIT OpenCourseWare site includes PDF-format lecture slides, a reading list and syllabus.

Published or updated: 2002

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