Which is better from an admissions signalling perspective?
1. Advanced econometrics (uses Greene, focuses on going beyond OLS to IV, limited dependent variables, etc)
2. Mechanism design course in CS department (similar to Algorithmic Game Theory (CS364A), Fall 2013)
3. Stochastic processes
I've heard that math courses are better signals than econ courses, but advanced econometrics specifically seems pretty important for admissions, so I'm not sure. I'm also unsure how the CS course (which has quite a lot of overlap with mechanism design econ) would be evaluated.