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The Economics Program provides advanced studies culminating in a Doctor of Philosophy degree. While pursuing their Ph.D., students may also earn a Master of Arts degree. Specialization options encompass: Advanced Macroeconomics, Advanced Microeconomics, Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Comparative Institutional Economics, Econometrics, Economic Development, Economic History, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Industrial Organization, International Finance and Macroeconomics, International Trade, Labor Economics, Political Economy, and Public Economics. Current faculty research explores diverse subjects such as financial crises and global spread effects, ideal fiscal and monetary policies in models incorporating search frictions, hiring patterns in startups, intangible capital's impact on productivity gains, financial globalization and worldwide disparities, sudden shifts in international capital movements, and optimal currency exchange systems.