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Emphasis on grammar review and conversation based on short reading selections. Conducted primarily in Russian. Prerequisite: RUSSIAN 230 or equivalent.

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Goal: ability to carry on elementary conversation, read and write simple prose. Prerequisite: RUSSIAN 110 or equivalent.

The aim of this course is to provide graduate students with a solid understanding of experimental methodology. It starts with a short survey of experiment design issues and common games. The main emphasis then turns towards examining various econometric tools that researchers use to analyze experimental data. These include non-parametric and parametric treatment testing, regressions, maximum likelihood approach, etc.

This course is a part of the IO sequence in the graduate level introduction to empirical industrial organization. The emphasis is heavily on recent, cutting-edge research done in the field of structural estimation of IO models. The aim is to provide the tools necessary to write a solid dissertation in empirical industrial organization. The techniques in this class will also be useful to students from other fields like labor, health and environmental economics.

Application of industrial organization and strategic behavior to industry, consumer and policy issues. Empirical analysis of market power, including market structure and performance, price discrimination, product differentiation, vertical control, cartel formation and sustainability, mergers, strategic behavior and firm organizations. Applied topics include branding, advertising, antitrust policy, consumer behavior and environmental applications.

The first course in the graduate environmental and natural resource economics sequence. The course covers dynamic optimization with environmental and natural resource applications, the basics of the theory of environmental regulation, and a survey of methods and results from current empirical research in environmental and natural resource economics. Prerequisites include graduate training in microeconomics and econometrics.