The primary goal of this course is to provide graduate students in D-MTEC with the economic, mathematical and computing skills required for building and analyzing policy-relevant economic-equilibrium models.

The course provides an introduction to energy economics principles and policy applications. The course will cover concepts, rationales, and instruments for policy intervention in energy markets, including an introduction to environmental implications of energy use and the role of economic analysis in designing policies to address environmental externalities.

This course provides an introduction to microeconomics based on mathematics with a problem-solving perspective. The course is open to students who have completed an undergraduate course in economics principles and an undergraduate course in multivariate calculus. The course emphasizes the conceptual foundations of microeconomics and concrete examples of their application.

This course explores the economic factors which influence locationdecisions of households and firms, and it explores theories of howthese decisions induce the formation of cities. The course will coverthe neoclassical models of landuse, concepts from the new economicgeography, zoning, and transportation and traffic congestion.

This course explores the economic factors which influence locationdecisions of households and firms, and it explores theories of howthese decisions induce the formation of cities. The course will coverthe neoclassical models of landuse, concepts from the new economicgeography, zoning, and transportation and traffic congestion.