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PhD program in Enconomics
: MACRO AND MONETARY ECONOMICS THEORY AND POLICY
 

The field is designed to give the student a knowledge of modern macroeconomics and monetary theory and policy, with an emphasis on problems of stabilization policy in a stochastic world with both closed and open economies. Among the issues to be studied are:
  • Inflation, its causes, social costs, and control
  • Unemployment
  • Rational expectations and economic policy
  • Growth theory
Required Course Work

Economics 81100, Monetary Theory and Policy
Economics 81500, Special Topics in Macroeconomics

Faculty Members and Areas of Research Interest

Terence Agbeyegbe (Hunter), Macroeconomics
John Devereux (Queens), Macroeconomics
Ryan Edwards (Queens), Macroeconomics
David Laibman (Brooklyn), Growth, Distribution, Technical Change
Alvin Marty (Baruch), Macroeconomics, Monetary Theory
Thom Thurston (Queens), Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics
Merih Uctum (Brooklyn), International Finance

Additional Research Areas

 
CUNY Macro Finance Working Group Events
 
Upcoming Applied Economics Seminars
 
Upcoming Health and Labor Seminars
 
 
Contact Information: Ph.D.Program in Economics<br> The Graduate Center City University of New York 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016-4309 email: economics@gc.cuny.edu Telephone: (212) 817-8255 Fax: (212)817-1514
 

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