Overview
The Program begins with systematic and rigorous training in quantitative methods and economic and financial theory. A research paper due at the end of a student's first summer in the Program begins to develop the student's ability to do original research. This development culminates in the dissertation. Training in teaching is provided in the second through fourth years, when the student participates in teaching workshops and acquires experience in the classroom.
Within the requirements of our rigorous and challenging Program there is sufficient flexibility to allow students to provide some personal direction to their studies. It is ultimately the student who, through individual initiative and application, is responsible for his or her own success in the Program.
