PhD Applied Economics at University of Pennsylvania

Combining the faculties of the departments of Real Estate and Business Economics & Public Policy, Wharton’s Applied Economics program leverages the breadth and depth of its faculty to prepare students for careers doing frontier theoretical and empirical research. Students can focus on a variety of areas including Behavioral Economics, Development Economics, Energy and Environmental Economics, Industrial Organization, Market Design, Public Economics, Risk Management, and Urban Economics and Real Estate.

Faculty: Wharton School  |  Duration: 18 course units  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Philadelphia, PA, United States

What you will study

Requires 18 course units in total. Listed required courses include ECON 7100 Microeconomic Theory I ECON; ECON 7200 Macroeconomic Theory I ECON; FNCE 9240 Intertemporal Macroeconomics and Finance Econometrics/Statistics; BEPP 9110 Empirical Public Policy; ECON 7300 Econometrics I: Fundamentals; ECON 7310 Econometrics II: Methods & Models.

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