2016 Fall Econ PhD

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Appendix: what course is bachelor level? what is master level? what is PhD level?
Sample: I tend to use example out of US for this purpose (as master in US is too rare, while in other country, the level is similar, but there are clearly a master degree for basically all university)
Methodology: cross-university comparison. for some core course, the content are indeed very similar across university (and countries). For a couple of them, even the text book is the same, e.g. Varian for intermediate micro, Romer for macroeconomics at master level (or as adv. macro 1 in PhD year 1), MWG for PhD level micro. The majority of course don't have a book that "unify the river & lake" but if one look into the issue, there are some 3-5 books that always appears.............if one don't want to stick with the book, one can also
go into the syllabus.........
e.g. micro: (intro) supply demand curve, elasticity and etc. (intermediate) quality it with calculus (master / advanced) transformation between the four utility function, to game theory and etc. (PhD) MWG.
financeial economics: (intro) basic NPV, IRR (adv. bacehlor) investment and portfolio management: CAPM, APT, Mean-Variance portfolio (graduate) asset pricing, like micro foundated to prove CAPM, various pricing kernel and discussion about completeness of market (projection
time series: of course have a econoemtrics / regression before, (bachelor) ARIMA, maybe also GARCH, (master) going into various operator and matrix algebra for operation, (adv) bayesian, MCMC method for it.......
<--- very rough but hope reader can feel it


P.S. kind of the academic structure and education curve of certain discipline indeed......if someone had viewed over all the program structure and syllabus before application (for me around 30 programs......), one will have a solid idea about what is a solid / water program. of course one have to concern about the faculty and some other aspect of that too at the same time.

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cheesechan 发表于 2015-6-29 16:54
1. Empirically
Remember that you had said somewhere else that the PhD placement for JHU MSF is  ...

经济学课确实只上过院里的核心课，我也是秋天选了PhD level的宏观经济想弥补一下，微观还不知道能不能选上。

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梦里乡音 发表于 2015-7-1 04:49
经济学课确实只上过院里的核心课，我也是秋天选了PhD level的宏观经济想弥补一下，微观还不知道能不能选上 ...

1.
JHU MSF單以學術水平來說, 應該不到master水平. (i do mean basically every course...seems to be at bachelor level)
(這個不只是指JHU的MSF, but basically all MSF in the world, 因為MSF都是for career purpose, 教那麼難/academics沒意思; 想繼續進修/對難度有要求/想幹technical的都去了讀financial economics / financial mathematics了)
這個問題和上面有人說數學不夠是有所相類似的, 有多大影響, 版上談述已久, 不贅.

2. 可以的話, 選微觀. for preparation in financial economics, micro >> macro.

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用topic定义比较好吧
1yr core-course:这里比起本科区别就是数学化，计算减少证明变多
math fo econ:实分析（证明什么时候连续就一致连续） 线代（sgn定义行列式） 最优化（拉格朗日法证明） 凸分析（主要是M凸），以及重头戏的库恩塔克条件（从超平面分离定理开始的证明）
micro 1(value theory)：decision theory（warp ）和general equilibrium（Arrow-Debreu）
micro 2(game theory):4大均衡（ne spne pne spe）及各种应用范例（1，2阶拍卖 e-mail 连锁店）
macro 1&2: rck  olg  dsge  rbc  etc.
stat&metrics：这个到底讲了什么我就真的一点都不记得了，总之都是bullshit

ps:以上括号内都是举例不是穷举，汉密尔顿、贝尔曼之类的dp是放在macro还是math里应该各自有差，我系是在macro里，把kt条件特地提出来是因为这个在core里一般都是只碰那么1，2次不像拉格朗日天天用

2yr topic filed：auction啊desgin啊growth啊inter trade啊labor啊health啊