Theories of growth and policies used to promote economic improvement. Evaluation of monetary policy, U.S. depository institutions and money supply process. Theory of industrial and agricultural location and human migration, economic basis for land use patterns, central places, and urban form, regional and urban structure, growth, and methods of analysis, examination of urban problems. Includes specification of models, estimation methods, statistical inferences of empirical results, forecasting procedures and common econometric problems, such as multi-collinearity, heteroscedasticity, and autocorrelation. Prerequisites determined by department each time course is offered.
Numerical grade is given to law students.
May be repeated when topic varies. Maximum 9 hours. Major writing requirement. Not available for graduate credit in History. Latin America, Asia, Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.