Elective Courses

MA-APEC students choose from a variety of elective courses offered in the spring and summer terms. Electives are typically taught by highly experienced professional economists with substantial expertise in the topics they teach.

Students choose an appropriate sequence of electives based on the academic track they select – Standard (the default), Computational Economics, or Financial Economics. The Program Director will help students select courses that best suit their individual objectives.

Standard Track

Students choose six electives from the list below.
Note: not all of the electives listed on this page will be offered in the indicated semester. Actual class offerings are indicated in the Schedule of Classes (new window).

Spring term

  • ECON 555 – Political Economy
  • ECON 557 – Advanced Data Analysis
  • ECON 561 – Labor Economics
  • ECON 562 – Industrial Organization
  • ECON 567 – Decision and Game Theory
  • ECON 571 – Financial Economics
  • ECON 573 – Computational Financial Economics
  • ECON 576 – International Trade
  • ECON 585 – Behavioral Economics
  • ECON 586 – Microeconometrics
  • ECON 587 – Macroeconometrics
  • ECON 591 – Advanced Macroeconomics
  • ECON 599 – Computational Economics

Summer term

  • ECON 558 – Time Series Analysis
  • ECON 560 – Economics of Credit Derivatives
  • ECON 563 – Public Economics
  • ECON 564 – Environmental Economics
  • ECON 565 – Law and Economics
  • ECON 569 – Energy Economics and Policy
  • ECON 572 – Monetary Theory and Policy
  • ECON 577 – International Finance
  • ECON 578 – Development Economics
  • ECON 588 – Urban Economics
  • ECON 598 – Financial Regulation

Computational Economics Track

Students must take ECON 557 – Advanced Data Analysis and ECON 599 – Computational Economics. Additionally, they must choose an elective from the following list:

  • ECON 556 – Asset Pricing and Macro Analysis
  • ECON 558 – Time Series Analysis
  • ECON 559 – Advanced Econometrics
  • ECON 573 – Computational Financial Economics
  • ECON 586 – Microeconometrics
  • ECON 587 – Macroeconometrics
  • ECON 597 – Empirical Macroeconomics
  • ECON 599 – Computational Economics

The remaining three courses may be chosen from the standard list of electives.

Please note: whether the Program will continue to offer the computational track in future academic years is under review.

Financial Economics Track

Students must choose three electives from the following list:

  • ECON 556 – Asset Policy and Macro Analysis
  • ECON 560 – Economics of Credit Derivatives
  • ECON 571 – Financial Economics
  • ECON 573 – Computational Financial Economics
  • ECON 577 – International Finance
  • ECON 593 – Financial Econometrics
  • ECON 594 – Empirical Asset Pricing
  • ECON 598 – Financial Regulation

The remaining three courses may be chosen from the standard list of electives.

The University’s schedules of classes for recent years may be viewed on Georgetown’s online schedule.