Course Registration Model for 1st-year Master students
From FY2013, Graduate School of Economics (GSE) starts a new curriculum in which 1st-year master students participate in a research seminar from the fall semester jointly with 2nd-year students. However, during the fall semester professors can spare little time for the education of 1st-year students in a research seminar since they have to take care of 2nd-year students to let them complete their master theses. Accordingly, 1st-year students are required to obtain basic knowledge and analytical skills necessary for master-thesis research not within a research seminar but by taking lectures.
If you like me to be your adviser for your master thesis, please make a study plan like below. Note that I am not requiring you to take specific lectures provided in GSE but to acquire knowledge and analytical skills at the specified level. Thus, you can freely choose the way to do so. To be important, lectures provided in GSE may not be sufficient to meet my requirements. Useful lectures are also provided in other graduate schools within Waseda, e.g., the Graduate School of Commerce, the Department of Political Science and Economics, or Other universities such as Keio, Titech. Of course, you can study by yourself, though I think that as far as basic knowledge and analytical skills are concerned it is a faster way to learn them from someone else.
- If you like to write a theoretical thesis, you have to
- master microeconomics and game theory with the following textbooks:Varian, Microeconomic Analysis, 3rd edition, 1992 (except for the game theory part)Gibbons, Game Theory for Applied Economists, 1992
- In addition, study how to use game theory and construct economic models by solving the exercises provided at the last section of each chapter in Gibbons' textbook.
- Microeconomics II and game theory II in GSE will provide knowledge and skills at the levels of these textbooks, though they do not necessarily cover all the topics in these textbooks.
- If you like to write an empirical thesis, you have to
- master microeconomics, macroeconomics, and game theory at the undergraduate level. You have to take Microeconomics I, Macroeconomics I, Game theory I in GSE.
- master basics of econometrics at the undergraduate level with a standard textbook such asWooldridge, Introductory Econometric Analysis, 2nd edition, 2003Hill, Griffiths, Lim, Principles of Econometrics, 4th edition, 2012
- In addition, get used to the way of handling data and how to use econometric softwares such as STATA and EViews, by solving the computer exercises provided at the last section of each chapter in the above textbooks. These softwares are available in our computer room and you can download the data sets from the internet.
- In GSE, Econometrics I is the lecture related to this subject. I strongly recommend you to start studying econometrics from the spring semester, in particular if you have not studied it enough before coming to our GSE, because mastering the basics of econometrics needs time but is indispensable for your research. You can also find similar lectures in the program of the Graduate School of Commerce.
Finally, my specialty is theoretical analysis by the application of microeconomics and game theory. If you like to write a master thesis with high-level econometric techniques, please go to other professor's seminar.
