GRK 629: Quantitative Economics

数量经济学博士项目旨在效仿欧美最好的经济学研究生项目，培养对经济研究有浓厚兴趣的高素质学生，以便在学术界、研究机构、公共服务机构或私营公司担任职业经济学家。学生将通过学习高级微观经济学、宏观经济学和计量经济学的课程来学习经济学的正式工具。在随后的专题课程中，学生学习几个专业，并为独立研究做准备。开设的主题课程涉及契约论、博弈论、劳动经济学、国际宏观和数学金融等领域，反映了与博士项目相关的教师当前的研究兴趣。在博士课程的背景下进行的研究议程围绕几个主要主题组织，涉及实验经济学、博弈论、契约论、经济政策和金融经济学的最新发展。这些主题中的每一个都是由多名教员追求的，旨在进一步发展量化经济学在具体应用背景下的适当理论、经验和实验工具，特别是从制度经济学领域提取的工具。

The doctoral program in quantitative economics aims tofollow the example of the best European and American gradute programs in economics in preparing highly qualified students with a strong interest in economic research for careers as professional economists in academia, in research organizations, in publics service or in private firms. Students will learn the formal tools of economics by following courses in advanced microeonomics, macroeconomics and econometrics. In subsequent topic courses students acquire several specialities and prepare for independent research. Topic courses are offered in fields such as contract theory, game theory, labor economics, international macro and mathematical finance, reflectingthe current research interests of the faculty associated with the doctoral program. The research agenda to be pursued in the context of the doctoral program is organized around a number of main themes, relating to recent developments in experimental economics, game theory, contract theory, economic policy, and financial economics. Each of these themes is pursued by multiple members of the faculty and is designed to further the development of the appropriate theoretical, empiricial and experimental tools of quantititative economics in the context of specific applications,drawn, in particular, from the field of institutional economics.