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Concepts and frameworks in behavioral economics including comparative study of models for decision under uncertainty between mainstream economics and behavioral economics, empirical evidences that support behavioral economics, models that incorporate psychological and sociological factors for consumer and social behaviors, and other topics that the lecturer finds suitable.

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The application of matrices, Jacobian determinants, derivatives, partial derivatives and optimization, with and without constraints,to explain theories in Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, such as the theory of consumer behavior, the theory of production, equilibrium in goods and factor markets, equilibrium of national income in product and money markets, international trade, comparative static equilibrium analysis, the input-output model, determination of maximum-minimum point and duality of linear programming.

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This course covers Maximum Likelihood estimation, panel data model, limited dependent variable model and the introduction to time series data focusing on univariate time series, forecasting, cointegration and error correction model.

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Money and capital markets at a micro-level; Financial assets, risks, and risk-bearing; The theory of equilibrium pricing of financial assets; Interest rate determination and structure of interest rates; Asymmetric information in financial markets; The study of financial institutions; Risk management of financial institutions; Behavior of financial institutions; Regulating financial institutions.

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The role of money in the economy; studying monetary policy’s goals, tools, policy implementations, Transmission mechanisms of Monetary policy; Monetary policy and business cycles; monetary policy framework, exchange rate targeting and inflation targeting; The role of the Central Bank; The interaction between monetary and fiscal policies; The role of monetary policy in the open economy.

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Study concepts and frameworks of asset pricing theory in the intermediate level; the theory of choice under uncertainty; classical asset pricing theory in the discrete time such as the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), The Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT), and The Consumption Capital Asset Pricing Model (C-CAPM); Empirical puzzles in asset pricing/returns and proposed resolutions in the literature.

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Seminar and research on topics in Monetary and Financial Economics under the supervision of the lecturer.

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The course analyses the structure and composition of government (national and local) revenue, through analysis of tax burden and incidence, and tax effects upon efficiency and equity. The course looks at the empirical effects of tax policies on the economy as a whole, and various individual behaviors such as decisions about work and leisure, tax avoidance and evasion,investment, savings and consumption. The analysis also includes the effects of deficit finance and fiscal decentralization (local revenue, grants and local debt). The application of these tools to selected contemporary topics (social security, healthcare and education financing). Additionally, the class will explore the politics and economics of tax reforms.

Course Description :
Seminar and research on topics in Public Economics under the supervision of the lecturer.