Ph.d Degree in ECONOMICS

The Ph.D. program is a full time program leading to a Doctoral Degree in Economics. Students gain economic coverage by taking additional distribution courses outside of their selected fields of interest. Students apply for candidacy to the PhD program by the start of their third year in the program.  Students are required to complete 1 quarter of teaching experience. Teaching experience includes teaching assistantships within the Economics department or another department.

Course requirements include:

Core Microeconomics, Core Macroeconomics, Econometrics

Research fields and field requirements:

Behavioural & Experimental, development Economics, Econometrics, Economic History, Environmental, Resource and Energy Economics, Finance, Industrial Organization, International Trade, International Finance Labour Economics, Market Design, Microeconomic Theory, Macroeconomics, Public Economics.

Other requirements include four other graduate-level courses to be completed and one of these must be from the area of economic history (unless that field has already been selected above). These courses must be distributed in such a way that at least two fields not selected above are represented.  Distribution courses must be passed with a grade of B or better.

Field seminars and workshops that must be attended include: