Teaching

Introduces constrained optimization at the individual and firm level. Topics include consumer theory, production and cost, competitive and non-competitive market structures, and market failures. Policy applications run throughout — externalities, public goods, and government intervention are treated as core content, not afterthoughts.

Covers national income accounting, short-run and long-run aggregate models, monetary and fiscal policy, and open-economy dynamics. Emphasizes the gap between theoretical predictions and observed economic behavior, with frequent reference to U.S. and comparative policy experience.

A rigorous treatment of healthcare as an economic problem. The course covers demand for health (Grossman model), health insurance and adverse selection, provider behavior and physician agency, hospital market concentration, pharmaceutical pricing and innovation, and the political economy of U.S. healthcare reform. Assignments require both formal model application and empirical data interpretation.

Examines systematic departures from standard rationality assumptions. Topics include prospect theory, present bias, reference dependence, social preferences, and choice architecture, read alongside applications in public policy, consumer finance, and workplace design.

Covers strategic interaction under complete and incomplete information. Topics include normal-form and extensive-form games, Nash equilibrium, backward induction, repeated games, and mechanism design. Applications span industrial organization, political economy, and bargaining theory.

Analyzes labor supply and demand, human capital investment, compensating differentials, wage inequality, discrimination, and collective bargaining. Empirical tools for causal inference — including difference-in-differences and instrumental variables — are introduced in applied problem sets.