ECO395L: Macro and the Labor Market (MA course); This course focuses on contemporary topics in labor economics from a macroeconomic perspective. It analyzes the determinants of wages, hours and unemployment both from a theoretical and empirical perspective. Topics include labor supply, the determinants of unemployment and vacancies, the flow approach to the labor market, theoretical models with search frictions, wage inequality, wage bargaining and wage rigidity, the relationship between the labor market and inflation, the decline in the labor share, the dynamics of search behavior over the unemployment spell, and unemployment insurance policy.

Semester: Spring 2024.

Role: TA.

Professor: Andreas Mueller.

Mean student evaluation score: Soon TM.

ECO395K: Labor Economics (MA course); This course is a labor economics elective for the Option III M.A. program in economics. It has three main objectives. The first objective is to present some of the major theoretical models for understanding behavior and outcomes in the labor market. The second course objective is to expose you to examples of empirical research in labor economics and to give you practice in making presentations. The third course objective is to give you an (initial?) opportunity to undertake your own empirical analyses using real labor market data.

Semester: Spring 2024.

Role: TA.

Professor: Gerald Oettinger.

Mean student evaluation score: Soon TM.

ECO304K: Introduction to Microeconomics (Synchronous Massive Online Course for fall semesters); Analysis of the economic behavior of individual consumers, firms, and workers. Demand, supply, and market equilibrium. Impact of taxes, externalities, and market power on equilibrium.

Semester: Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023.

Role: TA.

Professor: Charity-Joy Acchiardo, Wayne Geerling, Dirk Mateer.

Mean student evaluation score: 4.6/5.

ECO325K: Health Economics; Explores medical care as a commodity, demand for health and medical services, economic behaviour of medical care providers, and the functioning of medical insurance markets. Government regulation and provision of health care and health insurance.

Semester: Summer 2022.

Role: TA.

Professor: Helen Schneider.

Mean student evaluation score: N/A.

ECO304L: Introduction to Macroeconomics; Analysis of the economy as a whole. Measurement of output, the price level, and employment. Basic theories of the determination of Gross domestic product, investment and growth, and inflation. Introduction to fiscal policy and monetary policy.

Semester: Fall 2020, Spring 2021.

Role: TA.

Professor: Charity-Joy Acchiardo, Michael Sadler.

Mean student evaluation score: 4.2/5.