ECO2007S: Economics of Cooperation and Competition
This is a second year course in introductory game theory. Game theory is a mathematical modelling framework that is widely used
across the social and natural sciences including political science, law, evolutionary biology, ethology, economics and many other diciplines.
The course covers the basic application of game theoretic reasoning in strategic settings involving perfect and imperfet information.
ECO4016F: Econometrics
This is a Honours core course on microeconometrics and time series econometrics.
The microeconometrics section covers the asymptotic properties of the classical linear regression mnodel, omitted variable bias,
classical measurement error, panel data methods, and binary response models. The time series section covers stationarity, heteroskedasticity, autocorrelation
and forecasting.
ECO5076S: Development Microeconomics
This is a Master's/Ph.D elective course in the microeconomics of development in low and middle-income countries.
The topics covered straddles two broad areas: the causes of poverty; and the causes and consequences of inequality over
both the short-run and long-run.
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ECO5064S: Behavioural Economics
This is a Master's/Ph.D elective course in Behavioural economics. The topics covered are: risk attitudes with bounded rationality,
risk preferences under exposure to stress and violence, rational altruism and altruistic punishment, trust and social cohesion,
and emotions and decision-making.
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