Advanced Development Economics I

Faculty

SAWADA, Yasuyuki

Credit / Semester / Schedule / Language

2 Credits / Summer / Friday Period: 2 / English

Objectives/Overview

This course will be composed of English lectures on advanced graduate-level development economics.

Keywords

Development, poverty, economic development, English

Schedule

Topics covered will be:
1. LC-PIH, credit constraints, and precautionary saving
2. Risk-sharing
3. Econometric evaluation of development programs
4. Field experiments
5. Structural estimation of dynamic models
6. Numerical approach to two-sector dynamic GE models

Teaching Methods

Lecture

Grading

Mid-exam and Report

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