ECON 215
Network Economics
Economics · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Networks play an important role in economics, determining the diffusion of innovations, network effects, and trade patterns. Covers ways to generate and describe networks. Study of diffusion, contagion, and learning processes on networks; games with network effects; financial networks; trade networks; and supply chain networks. Part of economic theory sequence for second-year PhD students, with material relevant in other fields of economics such as macroeconomics, trade, labor, and development, and other disciplines such as business, communications, computer science, and mathematics.
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Requisites
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Requisites: courses 201A, 201B, 201C, or equivalents.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
ECON 215
- ECON 201AMicroeconomics: Theory of Firm and Consumer
- ECON 201BMicroeconomics: Basic Concepts and Techniques of Noncooperative Game Theory and Information Economics
- ECON 201CMicroeconomics: Game Theory with Asymmetric Information and Applications
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