Course Description

Basic Economics II, ECON 20B

The fundamentals of macroeconomics. Government behavior: monetary and fiscal policy, inflation, and unemployment. Effective fall 2006, the content of Economics 20B is macroeconomics. This course cannot be taken to repeat Economics 20B taken prior to fall 2006.

Key Information

Credit: 4 quarter units / 2.67 semester units credit
UC Irvine, Economics

Course Credit:

Upon successful completion, all online courses offered through cross-enrollment provide UC unit credit. Some courses are approved for GE, major preparation and/or, major credit or can be used as a substitute for a course at your campus.

If "unit credit" is listed by your campus, consult your department, academic adviser or Student Affairs division to inquire about the petition process for more than unit credit for the course.

UC Berkeley:
Unit Credit

UC Davis:
Course Equivalence: UCD ECN 001B
General Education: ACGH, QL, SS.

UC Irvine:
General Education: III - Social and Behavioral Sciences

UC Los Angeles:
Course Equivalence: Economics 2
Major Preparation: IDS Major

UC Merced:
Unit Credit (see your Academic Advisor)

UC Riverside:
General Education: ECON Elective Units

UC San Diego:
General Education: Revelle - one course towards Social Science; Sixth - 1 course towards Social Analysis; Muir: 1 course in Social Sciences theme in "Government and Economics"; TMC 1 course toward lower division disciplinary breadth if noncontiguous to major, Seventh - 1 course towards Alternatives - Social Science; Warren - May be counted depending on major/PofC/Area Study

UC San Francisco:
Unit Credit

UC Santa Barbara:
Course Equivalence: UCSB ECON 2
General Education: Area D - Social Science

UC Santa Cruz:
Course Equivalence: ECON 2
General Education: PE-H

Prerequisites

ECON 20A or ECON 13 or ECON 23.

Course Fees

None

Course Creator

William Branch
William Branch is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Irvine.  He is also a Research Affiliate of CESifo, the International Network on Expectational Coordination, the Institute of Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, and the Center for Economic and Public Policy.  He is an Associate Editor at the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control and a Co-Editor of Economic Inquiry specializing in learning and DSGE models.
 
William Branch's research focuses on adaptive learning and model misspecification in macroeconomic models.  He has applied his research to address issues in monetary policy, monetary theory, asset pricing, stock market bubbles and crashes, house prices, unemployment, business cycle dynamics, and macroeconomic forecasting.
William Branch is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Irvine.  He is also a Research Affiliate of CESifo, the International Network on Expectational Coordination, the Institute of Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, and the Center for Economic and Public Policy.  He is an Associate Editor at the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control and a Co-Editor of Economic Inquiry ...

William Branch is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Irvine.  He is also a Research Affiliate of CESifo, the International Network on Expectational Coordination, the Institute of Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, and the Center for Economic and Public Policy.  He is an Associate Editor at the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control and a Co-Editor of Economic Inquiry specializing in learning and DSGE models.
 
William Branch's research focuses on adaptive learning and model misspecification in macroeconomic models.  He has applied his research to address issues in monetary policy, monetary theory, asset pricing, stock market bubbles and crashes, house prices, unemployment, business cycle dynamics, and macroeconomic forecasting.

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