Overview The doctoral program requires at least three years of full-time study. Although the program has been completed in three years, most students remain in the program for four or five years. The basic coursework is usually completed in the first two years. The third-year paper is often the start of a dissertation.
Dissertations can take many forms, but they commonly consist of three or more related papers.
Your coursework will prepare you to begin frontier research in economic science. The first-year courses provide the necessary theoretical and quantitative base. The second-year courses build on this base in a number of specialized fields. Fields offered recently include capital theory, economic history, econometrics, finance, game theory, general equilibrium theory, industrial organization, international economics, labor economics, macroeconomics and monetary theory, positive political theory, and public finance. Most of these classes are small, facilitating interaction between students and faculty.