The research-active faculty areas of specialization within the School of Economics include:
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Environmental and Energy Economics: Includes topics such as climate change and policy, energy systems, regulation of utilities, costs of carbon dioxide abatement, renewable energy sources, energy systems, technological change, energy infrastructure, economics of natural gas markets and interstate pipelines, international negotiations on climate change, and natural resources economics
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International Economics: Includes areas related to international trade, globalization, multinationals, trading relationships between countries, duration of international trade, foreign direct investment, and international trading systems
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Industrial Organization: Includes topics such as firm strategy, oligopolistic markets, competition and innovation, market power, pricing strategies, net neutrality, two-sided markets, economic regulation, platform competition, and antitrust economics
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Economics of Innovation: Includes topics such as firm strategy, patenting, research and development, intellectual property rights, and intellectual property policy
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Development Economics: Includes areas related to economic growth, poverty, income inequality. socio-economic impacts of conflicts, accumulation of human capital, economic transition, and returns to education
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Applied Econometrics: Includes topics such as economic forecasting, estimation of product demand and profitability, estimating market power, and use of limited-dependent variable models
- Applied Microeconomics: Includes a wide mix of topics related to transportation economics, political economy, applied price theory, law and economics, and public choice
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