Rice Course Schedule, Fall 2001
Economics (ECON)

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ECON 211   PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS I                Credits 3.00  Fall 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
* 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.
001 BB 102 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:15PM      Ruiz, Alexander           Enr: 29 Max: NA
002 HZ AMP - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM      Dorabialski, Wojciech     Enr: 55 Max: NA
003 DH 1046 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM     Weiher, Jesse             Enr: 41 Max: NA
004 BB 114 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM      Inanoglu, Hulusi          Enr: 10 Max: NA
005 BB 116 - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM      Gonzales, Raul            Enr: 10 Max: NA
006 BB 102 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM      Soligo, Ronald            Enr: 35 Max: NA

ECON 212   PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS II               Credits 3.00  Fall 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
* RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Includes the measurement and determination of national income, money, banking,
and fiscal policy, business cycles, unemployment, and inflation, international
trade and balance of payments, and other contemporary economic problems. A
FOUNDATION COURSE.
Prereq- Econ 211.
001 HB 427 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM      Murasko, Jason            Enr: 23 Max: NA
002 BB 116 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM      Brown, Bryan W.           Enr: 34 Max: NA

ECON 370   MICROECONOMIC THEORY                     Credits 3.00  Fall 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Intermediate level analysis of markets, firms, households, income distribution,
and general equilibrium. Required for economics and mathematical economic
majors. Also offered in summer under Continuing Studies.
Prereq- Econ 211.
001 SH 305 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM      Ohno, Yuka                Enr: 49 Max: NA
002 BL 131 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM      Brown, James Nicholas     Enr: 65 Max: NA

ECON 375   MACROECONOMIC THEORY                     Credits 3.00  Fall 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Microfoundations of macreoeconomic theory.  Required for mathematical economic
analysis majors.
Prereq- Econ 211, 212, Econ 370, Math 101, Math 102 or equivalents.
001 ML 251 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM      Cordoba, Carlos Juan      Enr: 36 Max: NA

ECON 382   PROBABILITY & STATISTICS                 Credits 3.00  Fall 01
Study of probability theory and the central concepts and methods of statistics
with applications to economics, marketing, and finance. Required for
mathematical economic analysis majors; may substitute STAT 410 or 431. Also
offered as STAT 310.
Prereq- Econ 211 and Math 102.
001 SH 307 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM      Boeckenhauer, Rachel      Enr: 18 Max: NA

ECON 403   SENIOR INDEPENDENT RESEARCH              Credits 3.00  Fall 01
No description.
Prereq- permission of instructor.
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 8 Max: 0

ECON 404   SENIOR INDEPENDENT RESEARCH              Credits 3.00  Fall 01
No description.
Prereq- permission of instructor.
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: 0

ECON 435   INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION                  Credits 3.00  Fall 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Study of market structure, concentration, barriers to entry, and oligopoly
pricing. Includes the application of micro theory to industry problems. Not
offered every year.
Prereq- Econ 211 and Math 101 and 102  or permission of instructor.
001 BB 116 - TTH 02:10PM - 03:25PM      Dudey, Marc P.            Enr: 9 Max: 0

ECON 438   ECONOMICS OF THE LAW I                   Credits 3.00  Fall 01
Exploration of the role of economics in understanding the legal system.
Includes applications to contracts, property, rights, and torts.
-Econ 211 or permission of the instructor.
001 HZ 210 - MWF 02:00PM - 02:50PM      Brito, Dagobert L.        Enr: 108 Max: 0

ECON 448   CORPORATION FINANCE                      Credits 3.00  Fall 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Study of financial analysis, planning, and control in modern corporations.
Includes valuation, cost and allocation of capital, and capital markets, May
also be offered in the summer.
Econ 211 and Acco 305.
001 HZ 212 - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM      Chang, Yoosoon            Enr: 44 Max: 0

ECON 451   THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LATIN AMERICA   Credits 3.00  Fall 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Examination of economic and political development, as well as, current policy,
in contemporary Latin America.  Includes a comparative analysis of selected
countries, with emphasis on the interaction between public policies and
economic outcomes.
Prereq- Econ 211
001 DH 1075 - MW 02:00PM - 03:15PM      Soligo, Ronald            Enr: 19 Max: 0

ECON 471   LINEAR PROGRAMMING                       Credits 3.00  Fall 01
Formulation of managerial and technical problems. Includes the simplex method,
the revised simplex method, duality theory and its applications, transportation
problems, and decomposition techniques. Also offered as Caam 471.
001 DH 1046 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM     Zhang, Yin                Enr: 1 Max: NA

ECON 477   MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURE OF ECONOMIC THEOR Credits 3.00  Fall 01
Exploration of competitive economics from a mathematical perspective, unifying
calsulus, matrix algebra, and set-theoretic approaches. Includes theories of
household and firm, including production model. Not offered every year.
Pre-req- ECON 211 and MATH 212
001 SH 462 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM      Dudey, Marc P.            Enr: 10 Max: 0

ECON 480   ENVIRONMENTAL & ENERGY ECON              Credits 3.00  Fall 01
* 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.
Prereq- Econ 211.
001 SH 309 - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM      Berman, Eli               Enr: 46 Max: 0

ECON 482   DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE: A MICROECONOMIC AP Credits 3.00  Fall 01
Methodological individualism and social contract theories; private versus
public contracts; division according to claims/liabilites; sharing joint costs
and surplus; shapely value; managing the commons: increasing or decreasing
returns; fair trade and the competitive quilibrium; fair diviion according to
tast; cardinal welfarism; utilitarianism, equlitarianism; social choice;
aggregation of performance; and voting.
ECON 211, 370 or 372 or permission from instructor.
001 BB 116 - TTH 12:45PM - 02:00PM      Moulin, Herve             Enr: 14 Max: 0

ECON 483   PUBLIC FINANCE                           Credits 3.00  Fall 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Tax and expenditure policies at the federal, state, and local levels;
emphasizes resource allocation and equity.
Prereq- Econ 211.
001 BB 116 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM      Zodrow, George R.         Enr: 31 Max: 0

ECON 501   ADV MICROECON THEORY I                   Credits 5.00  Fall 01
Theory of the firm, the theory of consumer behavior, duopoly, bilateral
monopoly, imperfect competition, capital theory, and the theory of income
distribution.
001 BB 271 - MW 09:00AM - 10:15AM       Brito, Dagobert L.        Enr: 8 Max: 0

ECON 502   MACROECON/MONETARY THEORY I              Credits 5.00  Fall 01
Macroeconomic theory of output, consumption, investment, interest rates,
inflation and employment.
001 BB 271 - MW 12:45PM - 02:00PM       Bryant, John B.           Enr: 8 Max: 0

ECON 504   ADVANCED ECONOMIC STATISTICS             Credits 5.00  Fall 01
Statistical inference and the testing of hypotheses multiple and partial
correlation analysis; analysis of variance and regression.  Also offered as
STAT 604.
001 BB 271 - MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM       Chang, Yoosoon            Enr: 8 Max: NA

ECON 507   MATHEMATICAL ECONOMICS I                 Credits 5.00  Fall 01
Theory of household, firm; activity analysis; set theory, matrix algebra,
vector calculus, metric spaces, separation theory, constrained optimization.
001 BB 271 - F 09:00AM - 11:40AM        Moulin, Herve             Enr: 9 Max: 0

ECON 511   ECONOMETRICS II                          Credits 5.00  Fall 01
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.  Also
offered as STAT 611.
Prereq- Econ 510.
001 BB 102 - MW 12:45PM - 02:00PM       Sickles, Robin            Enr: 7 Max: NA

ECON 512   INTERNATIONAL TRADE THEORY               Credits 5.00  Fall 01
Classical, neoclassical, and modern trade theory; some welfare aspects of
trade, including the theory of commercial policy.  Applications are emphasized.
001 BB 114 - MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM       Ohno, Yuka                Enr: 0 Max: 0

ECON 522   PUBLIC FINANCE II                        Credits 5.00  Fall 01
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 BB 271 - TTH 02:10PM - 03:25PM      Zodrow, George R.         Enr: 3 Max: 0

ECON 523   OPTIMIZATION & CAPITAL THEORY            Credits 5.00  Fall 01
Dynamics, capital theory and intertemporal optimization.
001 BB 271 - TTH 10:45AM - 12:00PM      Barut, Yasar N.           Enr: 3 Max: 0

ECON 565   HEALTH ECONOMICS                         Credits 5.00  Fall 01
Economic aspects of health; production, cost, demand and supply factors;
methods of payment and effects of regulation.
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 1 Max: NA

ECON 579   TOPICS IN ECONOMETRICS                   Credits 5.00  Fall 01
Selected topics in advanced Econometrics.
001 BB 271 - F 12:00PM - 02:45PM        Brown, Bryan W.           Enr: 6 Max: NA

ECON 593   WORKSHOP IN MICROECONOMICS               Credits 5.00  Fall 01
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 TBA - M 03:00PM - 05:00PM           Barut, Yasar N.           Enr: 0 Max: NA
002 BB 116 - TH 03:30PM - 05:00PM       Moulin, Herve             Enr: 7 Max: NA
003 BB 116 - F 03:00PM - 05:00PM        El-Gamal, Mahmoud A.      Enr: 7 Max: NA
004 BB 116 - T 03:30PM - 05:00PM        Berman, Eli               Enr: 1 Max: NA

ECON 594   WORKSHOP IN ECONOMICS I                  Credits 5.00  Fall 01
Continuation of Econ 593.
001 TBA - T 03:30PM - 05:00PM           Berman, Eli               Enr: 0 Max: NA

ECON 595   WORKSHOP IN ECONOMICS II                 Credits 5.00  Fall 01
This is the second year continuation of Econ 593-594.
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA
002 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA
003 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA
004 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

ECON 597   READINGS IN ADVANCED TOPICS              Credits 5.00  Fall 01
No description
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: 0

ECON 800   GRADUATE RESEARCH                        Credits   Fall 01
No Description.
001 TBA - TBA                           Zodrow, George R.         Enr: 18 Max: 0