经济学几个研究领域简介

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Econometrics
The intent of this field to provide the student with tools needed to apply, assess, and critique sophisticated research in econometrics. Coursework will emphasize applications as well as building a solid foundation in econometric theory. As a result, students will have the training appropriate for academic, governmental agency, and private business openings in the area of econometrics.


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Health Economics
The intent of this field to provide the student with tools needed to assess and critique the concepts, structures, functions and values that characterize contemporary health care systems. Coursework will focus on the economics of production and distribution of health care services, with special emphasis on the impact of regulation, competition, and economic incentives. As a result, students will have the training appropriate for academic, governmental agency, and private business openings in the area of health economics.


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Industrial Organization
The field of Industrial Organization is concerned with the theory and empirical evidence concerning the organization of firms and industries. This field traditionally has focused on industry structure, conduct, and performance; however, the focus here includes more recent advances based on microeconomic theory including transactions cost economics, game theory, strategic behavior, contestability, and information theory.

The Industrial Organization field provides excellent background for careers in university teaching and research, private research organizations, consulting firms specializing in litigation support, and public agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, and the International Trade Commission.


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International Economics
The field of concentration in international economics requires coursework in international trade and international finance. Successful students are expected to acquire knowledge in the theoretical and empirical literature associated with the determinants of comparative advantage and trade patterns and commercial policy effects on such patterns, the determinants of exchange rates and international financial flows, and effects of international linkages on the domestic economy. Department strength and commitment to this area is evidenced by the editorship of two scholarly journals related to the area: The Journal of Comparative Economics and the Journal of International Money and Finance.

The job market in international economics has been one of the stronger specialties in the profession in recent years and this is expected to continue as multinational organizations such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund maintain a strong demand for new Ph.D.s, along with the traditional opportunities provided by universities, private business like commercial banks and consulting firms, and government agencies including central banks.


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Macroeconomics
The intent of this field is to provide the student with tools needed to conduct independent research in modern applied macro/monetary economics. As a result, students will have the training appropriate for academic and governmental agency openings in the areas of macroeconomics, open-economy macroeconomics, monetary economics, and time-series econometrics.


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Public Economics
Public economics is the positive and normative study of government's effect on the economy. The central questions are why government behaves as it does, how does its behavior influence the behavior of private firms and households, and what are the allocative, distributional and welfare effects of these changes in behavior. Included in the traditionally-defined field of public economics are the study of public goods, externalities, cost-benefit analysis, taxation, and intergovernmental relations.


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Labor Economics
Labor economics is an applied economics field involving the theoretical and empirical analysis of the workings of labor markets both at the micro and macro levels. The field includes the study of labor force participation, unemployment, the role and effect of education and other personal variables on earnings, geographical and inter-firm earning differentials, the demand for labor, discrimination, the role and economic effects of unions, personnel practices and policies, and similar topics.

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呵呵这个国际经济到是满不错的样子哦,去IMF工作很不错哦

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谁知道FINANCIAL ECON搞什么的？

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