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.
ECO5046F: Advanced Econometrics
This is a first course in the Masters and Ph.D econometrics sequence at UCT.
A strong emphasis is placed on providing students with the skills to do reproducible applied work in economics and related disciplines.
Students are taught how to think about data generating processes before moving on to the core topics covered in the course: Ordinary Least Squares;
Generalised Least Squares; Instrumental Variables; and the Generalised Method of Moments.
A firm grounding in matrix algebra and mathematical statistics is required.
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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