APEC 3006 - Applied Macroeconomics: Government and the Economy
(3.0 cr; =[ECON 3102, ECON 3102H]; Prereq-[[1102 or Econ 1102], [3001 or Econ 3101]] or #; fall, spring, every year)
Public sector and market economics. Public goods, externalities, and other allocation issues. Government and stabilization of national economy. Overview of new classical/Keynesian models. Principles of taxation. Individual income tax. Sales, business, and property taxes.

APEC 3007 - Applied Macroeconomics: Policy, Trade, and Development (IP)
(3.0 cr; Prereq-[1101 or Econ 1101], [1102 or Econ 1102]; 3001, 3006 recommended; fall, spring, every year)
Foreign trade, development, and growth. General equilibrium models for affects of trading blocks on U.S. agriculture and broader economy. Importance of growth on incomes. Foreign trade. Policies that impact world trade, economic growth.

APEC 3071 - Agriculture and Economic Growth in Developing Countries
(3.0 cr; Prereq-1101, 1102, Econ 1101, 1102 or #)
Characteristics and performance of peasant agriculture; potential role of agriculture in economic development, and design of economic policies to achieve agriculture and economic development; role of women in agricultural development.

APEC 4103 - World Food Problems (C/PE, IP)
(3.0 cr; =[AGRO 4103, CVM 6060, FSCN 4103]; Prereq-jr or sr or grad)
A multi-disciplinary look at problems and possible solutions affecting food production, storage, and utilization in developing countries. Presentations and discussions introduce conflicting views on population, technology, and ethical and cultural values of people in various parts of the world.

APEC 5152 - Applied Macroeconomics: Income and Employment
(3.0 cr; Prereq-3001 or or Math 1271 or Math 2243 or equiv or grad student or #; spring, every year)
Static general equilibrium open economy models and simple business cycle models that examine economic growth, business cycles, and fiscal and monetary policy. Input-output analysis and large scale econometric models. Sources/properties of economy and sector-wide data. Empirical applications.

APEC 5321 - Regional Economic Analysis
(3.0 cr; Prereq-3006 or Econ 3102 or #; fall, spring)
Regional development patterns and role of resources, transportation, and institutional constraints. Trade, migration, and investments in regional growth and change. Regional economic information in investment and location decisions. Evaluation of economic development policies and tools. Economic impact analysis.

APEC 5721 - Economics of Science and Technology Policy (IP)
(3.0 cr; Prereq-[[5151 or & 5151], PA 5022] or #; fall, spring)
Economics of technical change, research, and technology. Productivity. Methods for evaluating impacts of R&D. Intellectual property rights.

APEC 5731 - Economic Growth and International Development
(3.0 cr; Prereq-3002 or [Econ 3101, Stat 3022]; Econ 4211 recommended; spring, every year)
Economics of research/development. Technical change, productivity growth. Impact of technology on institutions. Science/technology policy.

APEC 5751 - Global Trade and Policy (IP)
(3.0 cr; Prereq-3001 or Econ 3101 or PA 5021; fall, every year)
Trade policies of import/export nations, gains from trade, trade negotiations/agreements. Free trade and common market areas. Exchange rate impacts. Primary commodities and market instability. Current trade issues.

APEC 8203 - Applied Welfare Economics and Public Policy
(3.0 cr; Prereq-calculus, intermediate econ theory; spring, every year)
Basic concepts underlying measurement of welfare change, problems of market failure and externalities, social welfare functions, and distribution within and across generations. Application of concepts, based on case studies of the environment, returns to research, technical change, and agricultural policy.

APEC 8403 - Demand Analysis and Household Economics
(2.0 cr; Prereq-[8211, 8212, Econ 5151] or [Econ 8001, Econ 8002] or [Econ 8101, Econ 8102] or [Econ 8201, Econ 8202, Econ 8203, Econ 8204] or #; A-F or Aud)
Household/individual behavior. Consumer demand analysis, education, and other issues. Static demand theory/estimation, dynamic demand theory/estimation, equivalence scales, intrahousehold allocation of consumpion, analysis of education issues.

APEC 8701 - International Economic Development, Growth, and Trade
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Econ 8002 or Econ 8102 or #; fall, every year)
Development, growth, and trade of developing nations and emerging market economies. Course links stylized characteristics of economic development, economic policy, and political economy using modern economic theory and empirical methods of analysis.

APEC 8702 - Economic and Trade Policy: Sectoral and Institutional Issues
(3.0 cr; Prereq-8230, Econ 8002 or Econ 8102 or #; spring, every year)
Sectoral economic activity in the United States; emphasizes changing role of agriculture. Role of macroeconomic forces and trade policy since World War II. Economic and institutional development in the international economy, including the World Trade Organization, regional trade agreements such as NAFTA, and the European Union.

APEC 8703 - Microeconomic Analysis of Economic Development
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Econ 8001-04 or Econ 8101-04, and ApEc 8211-8212 or #. Concurrent registration is ok.; A-F or Aud)
Topics concerning microeconomics of economic development in low-income countries. Focuses on behavior of agricultural households, poverty, inequality, education, health/nutrition, and evaluation of development programs.