Economics and Finance

Contents are changed regularly to reflect the interests of the faculty and the needs of the students. This is a complete listing of the field courses currently being offered. (You will find the syllabi for each course by clicking on the titles.)

Field courses in the Academic Year 2011/2012

     Winter Term 2012

Klaus Ritzberger (IHS)
Topics in Game Theory
(January 9 to January 30, 2012)
Syllabus

Michel Dacorogna (SCOR Switzerland)
Economy of Risk in Insurance
(February 20 to February 24, 2012 and April 16 to April 20, 2012)
Syllabus


   Spring Term 2012

Ben Heijdra (University of Groningen)
Walter H. Fisher (IHS)
Overlapping Generations and Open Economy Dynamics
(May 2 to May 16, 2012)
Syllabus

Camelia Bejan (Rice University)
Advanced Microeconomic Theory
(May 21 to June 8, 2012)
Syllabus

Maximilian Kasy (UCLA)
Topics in Econometrics
(June 18 to June 29, 2012)
Syllabus

Fall Term 2011

John T. Addison (University of South Carolina)
Advanced Labor Economics
(September 1 to September 16, 2011)
Syllabus

Larry Blume (Cornell University)
Applied General Equilibrium Theory
(November 21 to December 9, 2011)
Syllabus



Field courses in the spring and summer term 2011


Empirical Finance (Marc Paolella, University of Zurich)
(March 28 to April 1, 2011 and May 2 to 6, 2011)
Schedule
Syllabus


Overlapping Generations and Small Open Economy Growth (Ben Heijdra, University of Groningen & IHS, and Walter H. Fisher, IHS)
(May 16 ,2011 to June 01, 2011)
Schedule
Syllabus Heijdra
Syllabus Fisher
Heijdra: Slides Lecture 1
Heijdra: Slides Lecture 2
Heijdra: Slides Lecture 3A, Slides Lecture 3B, Slides Lecture 3C
Heijdra: Slides Lecture 4A, Slides Lecture 4B


Advanced Econometrics (Tim Conley, University of Western Ontario)
(June 14 to 24, 2011)
Schedule (Update March 28)
Syllabus




Field courses in the fall, winter and spring term 2010/2011

Measure Theory (Stefano Demichelis, University of Pavia)
(September 13 to 24, 2010)
Schedule
Syllabus

Applied General Equilibrium Theory (Larry Blume, Cornell University)
(November 22 to December 7, 2010)
Schedule
Syllabus

Advanced Macroeconomics (John Leahy, New York University)
(February 14 to 25, 2011)
Schedule
Syllabus

New: Topics in Game Theory (Klaus Ritzberger, IHS)
(February 14 to March 4, 2011)
Schedule
Syllabus

Collective Preference and Choice (Shmuel Nitzan, Bar-Ilan University)
(March 7 to 22, 2011)
Schedule
Syllabus





Field courses in the summer term 2010

Individual Choice under Uncertainty (Mark Machina, University of California, San Diego)

Topics in Game Theory (Jörgen Weibull, Stockholm School of Economics)

Open Economy Macroeconomics (Charles Engel, University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Financial Economics (Alex Stomper, IHS)

Open Economy Dynamics and Overlapping Generations (Walter Fisher, IHS)



Field courses in the winter term 2009/2010

Economics of Governance (Christian Keuschnigg, University of St. Gallen)

Applied General Equilibrium Theory (Larry Blume, Cornell University)

Bayesian Econometrics (Wolfgang Polasek, IHS)