Wages, Employment, and Market Power (ECON 917 W23)

Winter
2022/2023
Location
DUN213
Instructor

Timetable Entries

Monday

8:30 am - 10:00 am

Wednesday

10:00 am - 11:30 am

This course combines theory, applications, and estimation of models of job search and firm behavior in imperfect markets, with a specific focus on topics including wage dispersion, wage dynamics, price setting, and market power.

The course is designed to help students understand and explain real-life phenomena in the data, and to provide the theoretical, computational, and empirical tools to perform cutting-edge quantitative policy and economic analysis.