Advanced Microeconomics II (TA) — Prof. Antonio Penta [Syllabus]
First-year Ph.D. course | Spring 2023 and Spring 2024
Topics covered:
General equilibrium theory: existence, efficiency, and welfare theorems.
Static and dynamic games with complete information.
Bargaining and repeated games.
Games with incomplete information: auctions, signaling, and global games.
Brush up Courses in Math (TA) — Prof. Alexander Frug [Syllabus]
First-year Ph.D. course | Fall 2022 and Fall 2023
Topics covered:
Logic, set theory, and proof techniques.
Real analysis and topology: metric spaces, compactness, sequences, and convergence.
Single- and multivariable calculus: limits, continuity, and differentiability.
Mathematical optimization.
Linear algebra: vectors, matrices, and matrix operations.
Advanced Econometrics II (TA) — Prof. Christian Brownlees [Syllabus]
First-year Ph.D. course | Spring 2022
Topics covered:
Estimation methods: maximum likelihood, generalized method of moments (GMM), and asymptotic inference.
Nonlinear models: binary, ordered, and multinomial choice.
Linear panel data models.
Causal inference: randomized experiments, matching, difference-in-differences, and regression discontinuity.
Instrumental variables and treatment effects.