ECO 4800 - Economic Policy Analysis

Credits: 3

Prerequisite(s): ECO 3010 AND ECO 3020; ECO 3150 or ECO 3160; and Senior Standing

Description: This course exposes students to the tools of economic policy analysis by applying these tools to a specific field of economics such as, for example, monetary and fiscal policy, international economics, development economics, law and economics, or public economics. The course describes the scientific method in economics: developing a testable research question, writing a literature review, collecting data, testing the hypothesis, and writing the results. To illustrate this scientific research process, students are exposed to scholarly work in the specific field of economics that the course is covering that semester. In this course, students write an exhaustive scholarly literature review on a topic that fits within the specific field of economics that is covered that semester. This literature review is meant to be a capstone experience that synthesizes the student’s prior learning and applies it to evaluate the literature on a specific economic policy research question.

University Requirement(s): Senior Experience