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ECON 211 PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS I Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Nature of economics; the price system; household decisions; cost and
supply; marginal productivity and capital theory; industrial
organization and control; economic efficiency, externalities, and public
goods.
Enrollment is limited to 45.
A FOUNDATION COURSE.
001 TTH 09:25AM-10:40AM BB*102 Chae, Suchan *CURRENT ENR: 9
002 TTH 10:50AM-12:05PM PL*212 Diamond, John *CURRENT ENR: 14
003 MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM SH*307 Linares-Garcia, Carlos *CURRENT ENR: 24
004 MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM BB*116 Jayasuriya, Ruwan *CURRENT ENR: 3
005 MWF 01:00PM-01:50PM SH*303 Sim, Daniel *CURRENT ENR: 12
006 MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM SH*307 Khaodhiar, Apiradee *CURRENT ENR: 17
ECON 212 PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS II Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Measurement and determination of national income; money, banking, and
fiscal policy; business cycles, unemployment, and inflation;
international trade and balance of payments; other contemporary economic
problems.
Enrollment limited to 45.
Prereq- Econ 211.
A FOUNDATION COURSE.
001 TTH 01:00PM-02:15PM BB*102 Merz, Monika *CURRENT ENR: 31
002 MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM SH*303 Medlock, Kenneth *CURRENT ENR: 45
ECON 355 MONEY AND BANKING Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Demand and supply of money and other financial assets. American and
international institutional trends and reforms.
Prereq- Econ 211 and 212.
Enrollment limited to 45.
001 MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM GL*106 Smith, Gordon *CURRENT ENR: 48
ECON 370 MICROECONOMIC THEORY Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Intermediate level analysis of markets, firms, households, income
distribution, and general equilibrium.
Prereq- Econ 211.
001 TTH 09:25AM-10:40AM SS*106 Ohno, Yuka *CURRENT ENR: 58
ECON 372 MATHEMATICAL MICROECONOMICS Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Mathematical approach to microeconomic theory. Recommended for
engineering and science students. Students may not receive credit for
both Econ 370 and Econ 372.
Prereq- Econ 211, Math 101, 102
001 TTH 10:50AM-12:05PM PL*210 Ohno, Yuka *CURRENT ENR: 40
ECON 375 MACROECONOMIC THEORY Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Intermediate level analysis of relationships between the levels of
income, employment, interest, investment, consumption, and government
spending.
Prereq- Econ 211, 212.
001 MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM SH*307 Bryant, John *CURRENT ENR: 29
ECON 382 ELEMENTS OF STAT METHODS Credits 3.00 Fall 99
Basis concepts and techniques of probability and statistics.
Applications to economics, marketing, and finance.
Prereq- Econ 211 and Math 102.
Also offered as STAT 310.
001 TTH 10:50AM-12:05PM DH*1070 TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0
ECON 400 ECONOMETRICS Credits 3.00 Fall 99
Estimation and forecasting models; topics include multiple regression
time series, contingency table analysis, and Bayesian inference.
Prereq- Econ 382 or Stat 310 or Stat 381.
Enrollment limited to 25.
Also offered as Stat 400.
001 MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM BB*114 Brown, Bryan *CURRENT ENR: 15
ECON 403 SENIOR INDEPENDENT RESEARCH Credits 3.00 Fall 99
Independent research project for seniors on an approved topic of their
own choosing.
Prereq- permission of instructor.
001 TBA TBA TBA *CURRENT ENR: 4
ECON 404 SENIOR INDEPENDENT RESEARCH Credits 3.00 Fall 99
See Econ 403.
001 TBA TBA TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0
ECON 420 INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
A study of the economic relationships between countries. Trade theory,
tariffs and other trade restrictions, international finance, trade and
development, and current policy issues.
Enrollment limited to 45.
Prereq- Econ 211, 212, and 370.
001 MWF 01:00PM-01:50PM BB*116 Smith, Gordon *CURRENT ENR: 24
ECON 435 INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Market structure, concentration, barriers to entry, and oligopoly
pricing. Application of micro theory to industry problems.
Prereq- Econ 211 and Math 101 and 102 or permission of instructor.
Enrollment limited to 45.
001 TTH 10:50AM-12:05PM BB*116 Dudey, Marc *CURRENT ENR: 7
ECON 436 REGULATION Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Enrollment limited to 45.
001 TTH 01:00PM-02:15PM BB*116 Chae, Suchan *CURRENT ENR: 20
ECON 438 ECONOMICS OF THE LAW I Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
The role of economics in understanding the legal system. Applications
to contracts, property, torts.
Prereq- Econ 211 and 370 or permission of the instructor.
001 TTH 10:50AM-12:05PM SH*309 Brito, Dagobert *CURRENT ENR: 53
ECON 448 CORPORATION FINANCE Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Financial analysis, planning, and control in modern corporations;
includes valuation, cost and allocation of capital, capital markets.
Prereq- Econ 211 and Acco 305.
001 MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM SH*309 Hartley, Peter *CURRENT ENR: 56
ECON 451 THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LATIN AMERICA Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This course examines the economic and political development as well as
current policy in contemporary Latin America. Several countries will be
selected for a comparative analysis of the interaction between public
policies and economic outcomes.
Prereq- Econ 211
Enrollment is limited to 45.
001 MW 07:00PM-08:15PM BB*116 Soligo, Ronald *CURRENT ENR: 20
ECON 455 MONEY AND FINANCIAL MARKETS Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Study of the determinants of demand and supply of money, bonds, stocks,
and other financial assets. Includes financial intermediaries, monetary
policy, inflation, and international linkages among financial markets.
Not offered every year.
Prereq- Econ 375 and Math 101 and 102 (or equivalents).
001 MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM BB*116 Bryant, John *CURRENT ENR: 19
ECON 471 LINEAR PROGRAMMING Credits 3.00 Fall 99
Formulation of managerial and technical problems; simplex and revised
simplex methods; duality theory, optimality conditions and sensitivity
analysis; interior-point methods; selected applications and advanced
techniques.
Also offered as Caam 471.
001 MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM DH*1042 TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0
ECON 480 ENVIRONMENTAL & ENERGY ECON Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
The economic theories of externalities and common property resources are
used to analyze environmental problems. Regulation, taxes and
subsidies, transferable pollution rights and legal solutions to
environmental problems are evaluated. Environmental and other aspects
of alternative energy sources are considered and the pricing of
depletable energy resources is analyzed.
Enrollment limited to 45.
Prereq- Econ 211.
001 MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM BB*116 Mieszkowski, Peter *CURRENT ENR: 21
ECON 483 PUBLIC FINANCE Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Tax and expenditure policies at the federal, state, and local levels;
emphasizes resource allocation and equity.
Prereq- Econ 211.
Enrollment limited to 45.
001 TTH 09:25AM-10:40AM BB*116 Zodrow, George *CURRENT ENR: 13
ECON 501 MICROECONOMIC THEORY I Credits 5.00 Fall 99
Theory of the firm, the theory of consumer behavior, duopoly, bilateral
monopoly, imperfect competition, capital theory, and the theory of
income distribution.
001 TTH 12:45PM-02:00PM BB*271 Hasker, Kevin *CURRENT ENR: 3
ECON 502 MACROECON/MONETARY THEORY I Credits 5.00 Fall 99
Macroeconomic theory of output, consumption, investment, interest rates,
inflation and employment.
001 MW 12:45PM-02:00PM BB*271 Hartley, Peter *CURRENT ENR: 0
ECON 504 ADVANCED ECONOMICS STATISTICS Credits 5.00 Fall 99
Statistical inference and the testing of hypotheses multiple and
partial correlation analysis; analysis of variance and regression.
Also offered as Stat 604.
001 MW 02:10PM-03:25PM BB*271 Sickles, Robin *CURRENT ENR: 1
ECON 507 MATHEMATICAL ECONOMICS I Credits 5.00 Fall 99
Theory of household, firm; activity analysis; set theory, matrix
algebra, vector calculus, metric spaces, separation theory, constrained
optimization.
001 TTH 02:10PM-03:25PM BB*271 Johnson, Craig *CURRENT ENR: 0
ECON 511 ECONOMETRICS II Credits 5.00 Fall 99
Topics in linear and nonlinear simultaneous equations estimation,
including qualitative and categorical dependent variables models and
duration analysis. Applied exercises use SAS and the Wharton Quarterly
Econometric Model.
Prereq- Econ 510.
Also offered as Stat 611.
001 MW 10:45AM-12:00PM BB*271 Sickles, Robin *CURRENT ENR: 7
ECON 512 INTERNATIONAL TRADE THEORY Credits 5.00 Fall 99
Classical, neoclassical, and modern trade theory; some welfare aspects
of trade, including the theory of commercial policy. Applications are
emphasized.
001 TTH 07:00PM-08:15PM BB*271 Ohno, Yuka *CURRENT ENR: 6
ECON 514 INDUST'L ORGANIZATION&CONTROL Credits 5.00 Fall 99
Industrial markets and public policy.
001 TTH 09:15AM-10:30AM BB*271 Dudey, Marc *CURRENT ENR: 7
ECON 522 PUBLIC FINANCE II Credits 5.00 Fall 99
Study of the effects of taxation on individual and firm behavior,
general equilibrium tax incidence analysis, optimal taxation theory,
optimal implementation of tax reform, analysis of comprehensive income,
and consumption taxes.
001 MW 09:00AM-10:15AM BB*271 Mieszkowski, Peter *CURRENT ENR: 7
ECON 523 DYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION Credits 5.00 Fall 99
Dynamics, capital theory and intertemporal optimization.
001 TTH 10:45AM-12:00PM BB*271 Barut, Yasar *CURRENT ENR: 3
ECON 565 HEALTH ECONOMICS Credits 5.00 Fall 99
Economic aspects of health; production, cost, demand and supply
factors; methods of payment and effects of regulation.
001 TBA TBA TBA *CURRENT ENR: 3
ECON 593 WORKSHOP IN MACROECONOMICS Credits 3.00 Fall 99
This course is designed to expose graduate student to advanced topics
through guest lectures by leading researchers. Students participating in
the seminars are expected to prepare, over the course of the year, a
research paper and present it in the workshop. Workshops are offered in
microeconomics, macroeconomics and econometrics.
001 M 03:00PM-05:00PM BB*116 Barut, Yasar *CURRENT ENR: 4
002 TH 03:00PM-05:00PM BB*116 Moulin, Herve *CURRENT ENR: 6
003 F 03:00PM-05:00PM BB*116 Brown, Bryan *CURRENT ENR: 3
004 TBA TBA TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0
ECON 595 WORKSHOP IN ECONOMICS II Credits 3.00 Fall 99
This is the second year continuation of Econ 593-594.
001 TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0
002 TBA TBA TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0
003 TBA TBA TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0
004 TBA TBA TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0
ECON 597 READINGS IN ADVANCED TOPICS Credits 5.00 Fall 99
001 TBA TBA TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0
ECON 800 GRADUATE RESEARCH Credits 1.00 Fall 99
001 TBA TBA Zodrow, George *CURRENT ENR: 15
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