Professor Convery is a fantastic professor. You can tell he has mastered the course, cares about whether or not students grasp the material, and has clear and concise lectures. His lectures are very to the point and explain things in concrete ways using examples. His exams are straightforward, fair, and clear. He also provides practice midterms and finals which is great. Would definitely recommend this class to a friend. Super doable Econ upper div.

super easy class, if you learned finance/econ before. No workload and class average is super high

The class is structured with all multiple choice exams being 2 midterms (30% of grade each) and a final (40%). No additional assignments, but he provides practice questions that are pretty similar to the exam questions. If you put in the effort to make a good cheat sheet all of these exams are pretty easy, almost all of the exam solutions can be found in the material he provides, only a handful of questions the entire quarter require application of concepts. Content gets moderately harder after the first midterm but definitely a class that you can cram for a few days before each exam and get a good grade in the class. Would definitely take again, probably one of the easiest econ electives at UCLA.

Highly recommend this elective w/ Convery. He lectures in a very straightforward way and often ties in current events to the class material, so I actually learned something useful. Recorded lectures (although he might stop recording after this quarter), two midterms, one final, and you can use a cheatsheet for all of them. The exams are easy as long as you put in effort into your cheatsheet and run through the practice tests he gives out.

The midterm was pretty easy, but the final was deathly hard. Don't get negligent in preparing for the final like I did by becoming overconfident with how the midterm went. Convery's lectures weren't structured very well, but he is pretty helpful and clear when asking individual questions either during his OH or after classes.