History of Economic Thought . Review of major developments in economic thought and analysis that have contributed to modern economics in its major forms, schools, and applications. Industrial Organization I . Exploration of the relationship between industrial structure and market performance. Evaluation of the economic impact of the anti-trust laws.
Topics covered include horizontal restraint, vertical restraint, patent, and mergers.
Specification, estimation and testing of economic theory. Application of distributed lags, autoregressive models, system of equations, discrete choice models and cointegration principles. Urban Economic Theory . Trends in u.s. urbanization and suburbanization. Studies of urban household and firm behavior.