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Undergraduate Personnel Economics (Ilrle/Econ 4430), Matthew Freedman

Matthew Freedman

In this course, students will be expected to apply economic theories to human resource management issues. The course will provide students with a rigorous framework in which to understand and analyze real-world personnel policies, their implementation, and their effects. Topics and issues we will discuss include human capital theory, hiring standards and screening, productivity and performance measurement, compensation schemes, layoffs and buyouts, training, teamwork, performance incentives, benefits, worker empowerment, and employee evaluation programs. Students will demonstrate their mastery of the subject through class participation as well as in exams, problem sets, and a group project.

Course materials are posted on …

Undergraduate Intermediate Microeconomics - Math-Intensive (Bepp 250), Matthew Freedman

Matthew Freedman

This course will introduce you to “managerial economics”, the application of microeconomic theory to management problems. Microeconomic theory is a remarkably useful body of ideas for understanding and analyzing the behavior of individuals and firms in a variety of contexts. The goal of the course is to get you to internalize this body of theory well enough so that you can rigorously and efficiently analyze management—as well as other—problems in an economic framework. While this is a “tools” course, we will cover many real-world applications, particularly business applications, throughout the course. We will depart from usual microeconomic policy courses with …

Graduate Labor Economics Ii (Econ 7430/Ilrle 7460), Matthew Freedman

Matthew Freedman

This course is one-fourth of a two-semester sequence in graduate labor economics. This segment will focus on theories of principal-agent models and compensation design; firm, industry, and occupation effects; job search theory; and labor market policy evaluation. In addition to covering the basic theory behind these subjects, we will discuss the major empirical challenges surrounding each topic. We will go on to develop and apply different econometric approaches to dealing with such challenges, including difference-in-differences, instrumental variable estimation, and regression discontinuity.

See also the Labor Economics Seminar Series.

Course materials are posted on Blackboard.

Taught Spring 2013.

Targeted Business Incentives And Local Labor Markets, Matthew Freedman

Matthew Freedman