Economics Summer Courses

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ECON 1100 V11 - Basic Macroeconomics
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Online: TWTh, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

Investment, GDP, interest rates, the budget deficit, inflation, unemployment, banking, monetary and fiscal policies, and exchange rates appear frequently in the media, but are often little understood. Macroeconomics studies these aggregates and their interconnections and looks as well at the influence of the Federal Reserve and the federal government.

CRN: 14887

Instructor: Combs, Mary Beth
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: ACMI, BUMI, FRSS, IPE, LPBC, SSCI

ECON 1100 L21 - Basic Macroeconomics
Summer Session II, July 5 - August 7, 2023
Lincoln Center: TWTh, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

CRN: 14953

Instructor: TBA
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: ACMI, BUMI, FRSS, IPE, LPBC, SSCI

ECON 1100 PW1 - Basic Macroeconomics
Summer Session III, May 30 - August 7, 2023
Online, Asynchronous

CRN: 15058

Instructor: Song, Minwoo
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: ACMI, BUMI, FRSS, IPE, LPBC, SSCI

ECON 1200 V11 - Basic Microeconomics
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Online: TWTh, 01:00PM - 04:00PM

Microeconomics studies the decisions and interactions of consumers and businesses, resulting in an understanding of the process by which prices and quantities are determined in a market setting. Forms of industrial organization such as competition, monopoly, and oligopoly are explored. Also studied are the markets for labor and other factors of production.

CRN: 14871

Instructor: Tassier, Troy
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: ACMI, BUMI, ENST, FRSS, IPE, SSCI

ECON 1200 V21 - Basic Microeconomics
Summer Session II, July 5 - August 7, 2023
Online: TWTh, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

CRN: 15104

Instructor: James, Duncan
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: ACMI, BUMI, ENST, FRSS, IPE, SSCI

ECON 1200 PW1 - Basic Microeconomics
Summer Session III, May 30 - August 7, 2023
Online, Asynchronous

CRN: 15038

Instructor: Del Giacco, Gerard
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: ACMI, BUMI, ENST, FRSS, IPE, SSCI

ECON 2140 R11 - Statistics I
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Rose Hill: MTWTh, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

This course introduces students to descriptive statistics, probability theory, discrete and continuous probability distributions, sampling methods, sampling distributions, estimation, and hypothesis testing.

CRN: 14847

Instructor: Themeli, Booi
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: BUMI, IPE, URST

ECON 2140 V11 - Statistics I
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Online: MTWTh, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

CRN: 14872

Instructor: Lahaye, Jerome
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: BUMI, IPE, URST

ECON 2140 V21 - Statistics I
Summer Session II, July 5 - August 7, 2023
Online: MTWTh, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

CRN: 15009

Instructor: TBA
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: BUMI, IPE, URST

ECON 2142 R11 - Statistical Decision Making
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Rose Hill: MTWTh, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

This computer-assisted course develops the student's ability to collect data, postulate a hypothesis or a model, select the appropriate statistical technique, analyze the data using statistical software, draw correct statistical inference and clearly summarize the findings. Specific topics include chi-square tests, analysis of variance, simple and multiple regression and correlation models, time series analysis, and quality control.

CRN: 14818

Instructor: Themeli, Booi
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: IPE

ECON 2142 R21 - Statistical Decision Making
Summer Session II, July 5 - August 7, 2023
Rose Hill: MTWTh, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

CRN: 15069

Instructor: TBA
4 credits

Prerequisites: ECON 2140
Fordham course attributes: IPE

ECON 2142 V21 - Statistical Decision Making
Summer Session II, July 5 - August 7, 2023
Online: MTWTh, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

CRN: 15010

Instructor: Vali, Shapoor
4 credits

Prerequisites: ECON 2140
Fordham course attributes: IPE

ECON 2142 PW1 - Statistical Decision Making
Summer Session III, May 30 - August 7, 2023
Online, Asynchronous

CRN: 15040

Instructor: Burke, Mary
4 credits

Prerequisites: ECON 2140
Fordham course attributes: IPE

ECON 3160 V11 - Game Theory
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Online: MTWTh, 09:00AM - 01:00PM

Game theory considers static and dynamic situations of strategic interaction among entities such as individuals, firms, governments, and teams. In this course, we develop game-theoretic solutions to these strategic situations and use these solutions to predict behavior. In doing so, we apply game theory to markets, bargaining, laws, contracts, voting, and social norms, among other things.

CRN: 14888

Instructor: Tassier, Troy
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: ASSC

ECON 3256 R11 - Comparative Economic Systems
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Rose Hill: MTWTh, 01:00PM - 04:00PM

Survey of the salient features of alternative economic systems; the mixed economies of the western world and Japan, the reforms in the former Soviet, Eastern European, and Chinese economies; problems of measuring economic performance.

CRN: 14848

Instructor: Santangelo, Giacomo
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: GLBL, INST, IPE, ISIN, SOIN

ECON 3453 R21 - Law and Economics
Summer Session II, July 5 - August 7, 2023
Rose Hill: MTWTh, 01:00PM - 04:00PM

This course applies microeconomic analysis to traditional areas of legal study, such as contract, property, tort and criminal law. The approach applies the 'rational choice' framework used in economics to analyze the purpose, effect and genesis of laws. Attention is paid to the effect of legal structures on economic efficiency. Economic analysis of law is one of the fastest growing and most influential areas of both economic and legal scholarship. This course is of value to both the general economist and students planning to attend law school.

CRN: 14984

Instructor: Themeli, Booi
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: AMST, APPI, ASHS, ASSC, BLEB, LPBC, LPGP

ECON 3666 R11 - Economics at the Movies
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Rose Hill: MTWTh, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

Films spirit us away. Whether we journey somewhere in time, or far, far away, we do it in the name of entertainment. One does not, simply, walk away from a well-made film, unchanged. Regardless of subject, genre, or direction, film draws from the human experience. This course will utilize film to illustrate the concepts that students have and will encounter in their study of Economics. Through the lens of Economic Analysis, students will experience film and enrich the film-going experience.

CRN: 14817

Instructor: Santangelo, Giacomo
4 credits

Prerequisites: ECON 1100 or ECON 1150 and ECON 1200 or ECON 1250

ECON 3743 V11 - Stocks, Bonds, Options and Futures
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Online: MTWTh, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

This course examines the working of the primary and secondary markets, investment banking, brokers and dealers, the New York and the American Stock Exchanges, the NASDAQ, the options and futures markets. Fundamental and technical analysis is also covered.

CRN: 14873

Instructor: Vali, Shapoor
4 credits

Prerequisites: (ECON 1100 or ECON 1150) and (ECON 1200 or ECON 1250)
Fordham course attributes: AMST, APPI, ASHS

ECON 3971 PW1 - Urban Economics
Summer Session III, May 30 - August 7, 2023
Online, Asynchronous

Urban Economics is the study of location choices by firms and households. The technological changes and economic factors driving the process of urbanization, and the shift from a "downtown"-centered city to the suburbanized metropolises prevalent in the U.S. today is the central focus of the course. Throughout the course, New York City's history and current situation is used as an example of the economic forces operating on cities. Students will participate in a group project to analyze a major urban problem such as housing affordability, poverty, crime or education.

CRN: 15041

Instructor: Sun, Meiping
4 credits

Prerequisites: ECON 3118
Fordham course attributes: AMST, APPI, ASHS, ASSC, LALS, LASS, URST

ECON 4025 V11 - Bronx Urban Economic Development
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Online: MTWTh, 01:00PM - 04:00PM

The course will use economics, urban studies, and social service policy to examine economic, political and social issues that impact the local Bronx community. Topics covered will include budgetary policy, education policy, community development and investment and university/neighborhood relations, among others.

CRN: 14874

Instructor: Combs, Mary Beth
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: AFAM, ICC, PJEC, PJST, URST

ECON 4110 L11 - Ethics and Economics
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Lincoln Center: MTWTh, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

This course examines how ethical considerations enter into economic decisions. Readings include writings by moral philosophers and the founders of economic thought, as well as recent research on ethical issues. Topics for discussion may include child care, trade liberalization, welfare reform, health care, poverty, pollution, and economic sanctions.

CRN: 15076

Instructor: Collins, Sean
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: AMCS, AMST, APPI, ASHS, ASRP, EP4, LPBC, SOIN, URST, VAL

ECON 5006 R11 - Programming Economics and Finance
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Online: MW, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

Graduate course. This course introduces the student to various computer programs and their applications in economics and in finance. The course begins with a general review of programming skills using MATLAB. It then presents other statistical and econometric packages such as SAS and STATA. The course concludes with a review of the LATEX program.

CRN: 14970

Instructor: Rengifo Minaya, Erick
3 credits

ECON 5020 R21 - African Economic Development
Graduate Summer Session II, July 5 - August 8, 2023
Rose Hill: TTh, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

Graduate course. The key objective of this course is to develop an understanding of the economic development problems of Africa, the trade patterns and financial relationships of Africa to the rest of the world. With examples, application, and country case studies, the course covers major development challenges and the possible solutions, the growing influence of African economics in industrialized and developing countries as well as future prospects.

CRN: 15049

Instructor: Themeli, Booi
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: HULI

ECON 5040 R11 - Strategic Financial Management
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Rose Hill: TTh, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

Graduate course. An introduction to the basic questions facing an investor evaluating firm policy. The course covers debt/equity choice, dividend policy, and principle/ agent problems within the firm. The value of the firm under different financial and managerial structures. Current research is surveyed to determine how investors interpret various financial arrangements such as dividend policy, taxes, and stock offerings. Specific attention will be paid to information and incentives of each party in a financial contract in the context of structuring the firm, running the firm efficiently, and if all else fails, bankruptcy.

CRN: 14971

Instructor: Rengifo Minaya, Erick
3 credits

ECON 5415 V11 - Gender and Economic Development
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Online: MW, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

Graduate course. Analyze the social nature of gender and economic development in a cross-cultural perspective. Topics include household labor, occupational segregation and earnings, inequality in market work, poverty, family structure, public policy and gender equity. The course draws on material from economics and other social sciences to analyze the social nature of gender and economic development in a cross-cultural perspective. Topics include women's household labor; occupational segregation and earningsl inequality in market work; the intersections of gender, class, race, and ethnicity; women and poverty; family structure; public policy and gender equity.

CRN: 14975

Instructor: Combs, Mary Beth
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: CEED, CENS, HULI, PSIC

ECON 5540 R21 - Emerging Markets
Graduate Summer Session II, July 5 - August 8, 2023
Rose Hill: MW, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

Graduate course. Intended primarily for IPED students, this course explores the dynamics of emerging financial markets in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. Complimenting and expanding upon the skills learned in POGA 6991 Political Risk Analysis, students learn how to prepare a country study regarding their country's leading macroeconomic indicators, the stability of its foreign exchange market, and the likely returns and risks associated with its stock market. Students are taught how to analyze this data using standard statistical software to forecast trends as well as to estimate returns, volatility and cross-correlations. An optimal portfolio of equity investments in emerging markets is estimated. Interest in analyzing the dynamics of emerging financial markets in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America.

CRN: 15050

Instructor: Themeli, Booi
3 credits

ECON 5771 R11 - Project Assessment
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Rose Hill: TTh, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

Graduate course. Uses the logical framework analysis frequently mandated by USAID to design a results-based system to monitor and evaluate small community development projects.

CRN: 14972

Instructor: Odra, Donna
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: HUCB

Classes listed as either Lincoln Center or Rose Hill will meet on-campus only. Classes listed as "Online" during Session I or II will meet synchronously online during their scheduled meeting times. Students in different time zones should plan accordingly. Session III online courses are asynchronous (exceptions are noted in course descriptions).

Hybrid courses will meet in person on campus at the times indicated; additional online work will also be required.