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This course covers regulatory theories, competition policies, together with their economic rationales. It includes approaches, methods, instruments and impact assessment of regulation and competition policies as well as regulatory institutions, governance and performance. The course includes case studies from the developed and developing countries.

The course teaches the economics of transition and resilience. The focus is on understanding the relevant phenomena and discussing the importance of resilience at the individual, firm (micro), and economy wide (macro) level as well as understand why rationally bounded agents and competitive markets cause resilience to be less than efficient. The course results in students designing feasible policies and institutional reforms that can promote resilience at one of the levels identified above. In this course, work on a challenge, provided by the European Commission's DG ECFIN, unit Economics of Transition and Resilience. This current and real-world policy challenge is our guide throughout the course. Students prepare a policy brief for the Commission and present it in Brussels. The course combines an existing group project with an individual learning journey, where you get a chance to apply what you have learned creatively and present the results professionally.

This course covers the essential programming structures for managing data and controlling computation, as well as abstractions that facilitate decomposing large systems into modules. The course also covers pragmatics of programming languages, including abstract syntax, interpretation and domain-specific language implementation. Students do not learn how to use any one language, but instead learn the basic elements needed to understand the next 700 programming languages, or even design their own.

This course investigates Asian and European history from a global perspective through the analysis of both primary and secondary historical materials. The course compares how how Iberians and English/Dutch established their presence in East Asia, especially in Japan.

The course covers the following topics:

• Introduction: The Age of Discovery and Global History
• Portuguese expansion in Asia - The Estado da India I and India II.
• Iberian traders and slavery in East Asia
• Spain and the Manila Galleons
• The Jesuit enterprise - Christian missions in East Asia
• East India Companies and factories - Dutch and English in Japan
• European Diplomacy vs. East Asian diplomacy
  
   

This course covers the concept of regression analysis. Students learn to perform statistical inferences in linear regressions and carry out regression analysis using data examples. The course examines the setting and suitability of regression models and model diagnosis. Simple linear regression, multilinear regression, variable selection, and nonlinear regression are included, and statistical package programs such as SAS are used. 

Topics include Simple Linear Regression, Simple Linear Regression, Multiple Linear Regression, Multiple LInear Regression, Regression Diagnostics, Regression Diagnostics, Qualitative Variables as Predictors, Transformation of Variables, Weighted Least Squares, The Problem of Correlated Errors, Analysis of Collinear Data, Variable Selection Procedures. 

This course studies the conduct of monetary policy by central banks and its effects on the economy. After defining money and its functions, it compares monetary policy tools and institutions at different central banks. It then examines theory and empirical evidence related to the mechanisms through which policy actions are transmitted to the real economy. Then, it discusses the optimal design of monetary policy, developing a model of inflation targeting. Finally, it analyzes unconventional monetary policy developed during the recent financial crisis and the Covid recession. The course blends theory, empirics and institutional analyses. Prerequisites: familiarity with the basic concepts developed in introductory macroeconomics and microeconomics courses and with the fundamentals of differential calculus. 

Conventionally, the discipline of International Relations tends to either obliterate or ascribe race and racism as categories to a subsidiary role in the mainstream scholarships that organize, structure, and regulate the borders of its field of inquiry, which has deep implications on how we imagine and articulate political interventions. In such framework, IR reiterates a view of world politics and of the interstate system that privileges the perspective of the Western and Westernized dominant powers and reifies the historical and cultural subject position of white and ‘whitened’ groups, globally.  The course investigates world politics from the premise that the underlying condition of the international order, as we know it, and the (post)colonial geographies that it has historically been built upon is permanent racialized violence and multiple antiblack codes. Therefore, the aim is to explore the explanatory agency of race and racism as analytical categories in multiple international contexts and political conjunctures, drawing particularly from the African and Afrodiasporic scholarships, which also include the so-called Black studies. This epistemological and methodological move towards African and African diasporic intellectual traditions is premised upon the perceived need to question the persistent monopoly on author-hood over what can be said, known, and consequently done about the international, the global and the national time-spaces. 

This course covers basic theories and contemporary issues of Human Rights Law across international, national, and transnational dimensions. Important themes and questions in the fields are explored by closely examining cases from various jurisdictions and critically engaging with global academic literature. Active class participation, including one class presentation, is expected. This is a discussion-based seminar course, but a few lecture sessions may be provided as necessary.  

Topics include ideas of human rights, transnational approaches to human rights, human rights and state sovereignty, universality and particularity, non-citizens' rights and democracy, rights of social minorities, equality and discrimination, human rights in the new contexts of human existence. 

This course examines conceptual and technical principles of publication design. It emphasizes the development of skills using standard industry software, and the positioning of briefs in real world contexts. It covers the systematic processes that make designing publications more efficient. 

The field of computational psychiatry has taken off over the last decade. Research in this field uses computational modeling to identify the precise component mechanisms underlying deficits and biases in learning, decision-making and other cognitive processes. The first part of this course reviews some of the early classic papers in this new field illustrating how this approach has been used to advance understanding of psychiatric disorders ranging from anxiety and depression to addiction and schizophrenia. Each week, one or two papers are set in advance, presented using a lecture format, and discussed via class participation. These papers are selected to present some of the most widely used theoretical frameworks and experimental tasks. In the second part of the course, students are introduced to current issues in advancing the nosology of psychiatric disorders. This covers why the field has become unhappy with traditional binary diagnostic categories and alternate approaches advanced to address this, including NIMH’s Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) framework for investigating psychiatric disorders, the Hierarchical Taxonomy Of Psychopathology (HiTOP), and modeling of latent factors to tease apart symptom variance associated with comorbid conditions. Following this, students are introduced to precision and translational psychiatry and issues pertaining to the promise or perils of translating computational psychiatry findings into real-world practice.