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."

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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