Courses

Core Courses

  • Principles of Macroeconomics
  • Microeconomics
  • Intermediate Microeconomics
  • Intermediate Macroeconomics
  • Econometrics
  • Capstone Project

Macroeconomics Electives

  • China’s Economic Transition
  • International Trade and Chinese Economy
  • Chinese Financial System
  • Money and Banking
  • Advanced Macroeconomics
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Money
  • History of Modern Economic Growth: Exploring China from a Comparative Perspective
  • International Economics
  • Financial Economics

Microeconomics Electives

  • Behavioral Economics
  • Market Design
  • Introduction to Game Theory
  • Antitrust and Competition Policy
  • Competitive Analysis
  • Advanced Economic Theory
  • Advanced Game Theory

Other Electives

  • Advanced Econometrics
  • Experimental Economics
  • Development Economics
  • Cooperation, Coordination and Collective Action
  • Labor Economics
  • Political Economy
  • Public Economics

What Economics Professors Say About Economics

Adam Brandenburger
“Economics is the study of how participants in a social system interact to create and claim economic value. The subject has both descriptive aspects (how things are) and normative aspects (how things ought to be). Students will learn to think in a new and illuminating way about economic and societal questions.”
Emiliano Catonini
“Because Economics is the key to understand almost every transformation the world is going through.”
Qingyuan Chai
“Economics is not merely the study of money and markets; it is more importantly a framework for understanding how humans make choices, respond to incentives, and ultimately shape the way our world operates.”
Kyle Chauvin
“经济学是了解世界以及改造世界的一个不可或缺的工具。”
Ilaf Elard
“1. 中国经济的重新崛起；2.全球经济危机；3. 金融科技和区块链 — 所有这些都是塑造当今世界的巨大的经济力量。”
Ye (Wendy) Jin
“Understand how the markets work. Understand yourself.”
Sukjoon Lee
“Economics is a tool to understand rigorously human behaviors and how they aggregate.”
Mariann Ollár
“Economics is a way of seeing why markets and governments, firms and institutions emerge and change. It centers on the interplay of the individual motive versus the collective.”
Eric Set
“The best thing about Econ is that Econ is about people.”
Aleksandar Stojanović
“Because provides approaches the world around us through a powerful combination of abstract thinking and focus on real world institutions.”
Weiwei Weng
“Constrained Optimization’ - be aware of the constraints before making a decision & be more self-acceptable afterwards.”
Nan Xu
“Economics is a way of thinking and a lens through which we view the world.”
Yu (Amanda) Zhou
“Understand country’s development path and improve conditions through a variety of channels .”
Peio Zuazo-Garin
“One of the prime aspects shaping society, and thus, key to understanding why your life is like it is.”

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