Graduate Workshops

The advanced graduate workshops are an important part of the life of the Department. They are the basis for ongoing meetings of faculty with similar research interests and provide a format for helping advanced students define research topics, focus their research skills, and complete their dissertations. Workshop presentations are made by Maryland faculty, visiting scholars, and students.

Workshop in Comparative Institutional Economics

 The workshop focuses on current research in institutional economics and closely related research in fields such as economic transition, economic development, economic theory, law and economics, political economics, and economic history. Topics are drawn from both theoretical analysis of institutions and empirical studies of the effects and determinants of institutions. Participants in this workshop are drawn from a broad range of fields, reflecting the wide area of economics in which the economics of institutions can be applied. Faculty include Roger Betancourt, Rachel Kranton, and Peter Murrell.

Workshop in Econometrics
The Workshop in Econometrics focuses on both theoretical and applied econometric research. Topics include estimation and testing of spatial and panel models, qualitative choice models, dynamic nonlinear models, rational expectations models, stationary time series models, and integrated and co-integrated processes. Faculty include John Chao, Harry Kelejian, Ingmar Prucha, and John Rust.

Workshop in Industrial Organization
The Workshop in Industrial Organization focuses on the economics of market structure, the role of mergers and merger policy, technological change and diffusion, advertising, the economics of the retail sector, and antitrust policy. Officials from the Federal Trade Commission, Justice Department, and other federal agencies visit periodically. Faculty include Lawrence Ausubel, Roger Betancourt, William Evans, Ginger Jin, Rachel Kranton, and Daniel Vincent.

Workshop in International, Development, and Comparative Economics
All aspects of international economics, including the economics of developing countries and comparative systems, are covered in the International, Development, and Comparative Economics Workshop. Topics include national security and economic development, the theoretical underpinning of share tenancy contracts, international debt problems, foreign-exchange markets, trade theory and commercial policies, economies of scale and trade, impact of increasing integration by the European Community, incentives in socialist systems, and the breakup of the labor-managed system in Yugoslavia. Faculty include Roger Betancourt, Allan Drazen, Nuno Limao, Peter Murrell, and Rodrigo Soares.

Workshop in Labor Economics
The Workshop in Labor Economics is focused on theoretical and empirical research on labor markets and the distribution of income and opportunity. Topics include employer behavior, work and family issues, the structure of earnings, discrimination, unions and collective bargaining, and unemployment. Substantial attention is devoted to the analysis of labor market policy issues. Faculty include William Evans, Jonah Gelbach, John Haltiwanger, Judith Hellerstein, Seth Sanders, and John Shea.

Workshop in Macroeconomics and Growth
Analysis of business cycle fluctuations and longer term economic growth issues are the focus of this workshop. Topics covered include microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic behavior, individual rationality, expectations formation, real and nominal business cycle models, fiscal and monetary policy, the determinants of productivity and growth, and open economy macroeconomic issues. Faculty include Allan Drazen, John Haltiwanger, Charles Hulten, Michael Pries and John Shea.

Workshop in Microeconomic Theory
This workshop focuses on current issues in microeconomic theory with a particular emphasis on game theory and the economics of information. Participants in this workshop are drawn from a range of other fields such as industrial organization, public finance, and international trade. Faculty include Lawrence Ausubel, Roger Betancourt, Peter Coughlin, Peter Cramton, and Rachel Kranton.

Workshop in Public Economics
Initiated several years ago under a research grant from the Sloan Foundation, the Workshop in Public Economics involves a large group of faculty and students working on public finance, public choice, and public sector economics. Recent seminars in this workshop have focused, for example, on the theory of clubs and the organization of local government, fiscal federalism and competition among jurisdictions, production functions for education and other public services, tax incidence, voting models and the theory of collective choice, and the theory of constitutions, referenda, and political decision-making. Faculty include Peter Coughlin, Maureen Cropper, Jonah Gelbach, Judith Hellerstem, Wallace Oates, and John Wallis.

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