Rice Course Schedule, Fall 2002
Economics (ECON)

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ECON 211   PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS I                Credits 3.00  Fall 02
* 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      Ryu, Deockhyun            Enr: 34 Max: 45
002 HZ 210 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM      Soligo, Ronald            Enr: 65 Max: 45
003 BB 116 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM      Dorabialski, Wojciech     Enr: 48 Max: 45
004 BB 102 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM      Inanoglu, Hulusi          Enr: 26 Max: 45
005 KH 101 - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM      Eris, Gil Cunha Campos    Enr: 31 Max: 45
006 BB 114 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM      Dorabialski, Wojciech     Enr: 36 Max: 45

ECON 212   PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS II               Credits 3.00  Fall 02
* 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 BB 114 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:50AM      Hendrix, Michele          Enr: 63 Max: 0
002 BB 102 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM      Brown, Bryan W.           Enr: 32 Max: NA

ECON 370   MICROECONOMIC THEORY                     Credits 3.00  Fall 02
* 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 309 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM      Brown, James              Enr: 48 Max: 0
002 SH 305 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM      Hendrix, Michele          Enr: 58 Max: NA

ECON 375   MACROECONOMIC THEORY                     Credits 3.00  Fall 02
* 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 BB 116 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM      Cordoba, Juan Carlos      Enr: 21 Max: 0

ECON 382   PROBABILITY & STATISTICS                 Credits 3.00  Fall 02
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 DH 1064 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM     Boeckenhauer, Rachel      Enr: 17 Max: 0

ECON 400   ECONOMETRICS                             Credits 3.00  Fall 02
Survey of estimation and forecasting models. Includes multiple regression time
series,
contingency table analysis, and Bayesian inference.
Required for
mathematical economic analysis majors. Also offered as STAT 400.
Prereq-Econ 382 or Stat 310 or Stat 381 and Math 355 or Caam 310.
001 BB 116 - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM      Chang, Yoosoon            Enr: 9 Max: 0

ECON 403   SENIOR INDEPENDENT RESEARCH              Credits 3.00  Fall 02
No description.
Prereq- permission of instructor.
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 11 Max: 0

ECON 404   SENIOR INDEPENDENT RESEARCH              Credits 3.00  Fall 02
No description.
Prereq- permission of instructor.
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: 0

ECON 435   INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION                  Credits 3.00  Fall 02
* 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 SH 303 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:15PM      Dudey, Marc P.            Enr: 32 Max: 0

ECON 436   REGULATION                               Credits 3.00  Fall 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Analysis of governmental regulatory activities under antitrust laws and in such
regulated industries as communications, energy, and transportation.
Econ 370
and 435 recommended.
001 SH 309 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM      Chae, Suchan              Enr: 28 Max: 0

ECON 448   CORPORATION FINANCE                      Credits 3.00  Fall 02
* 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 SH 309 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM      Hartley, Peter R.         Enr: 47 Max: 0

ECON 455   MONEY AND FINANCIAL MARKETS              Credits 3.00  Fall 02
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 SH 303 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM      Bryant, John B.           Enr: 36 Max: NA

ECON 477   MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURE OF ECONOMIC THEOR Credits 3.00  Fall 02
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.
Pre-req- ECON 370 and MATH 212
001 BB 116 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM      Bogomolnaia, Anna         Enr: 14 Max: 0

ECON 481   HEALTH ECONOMICS                         Credits 3.00  Fall 02
Study of determinants of health, including behavorial, economic and social
factors and access to health care. Analysis of the medical care industry,
production, cost, demand and supply factors. Effects of regulation and methods
of payment.
Prereq- ECON 211
001 SH 309 - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM      Mieszkowski, Peter        Enr: 48 Max: 0

ECON 483   PUBLIC FINANCE                           Credits 3.00  Fall 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Tax and expenditure policies at the federal, state, and local levels;
emphasizes resource allocation and equity.
Prereq- Econ 211 and Econ 370
001 HUM 119 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM     Zodrow, George R.         Enr: 14 Max: 0

ECON 501   ADV MICROECON THEORY I                   Credits 5.00  Fall 02
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: 11 Max: 0

ECON 502   MACROECON/MONETARY THEORY I              Credits 5.00  Fall 02
Macroeconomic theory of output, consumption, investment, interest rates,
inflation and employment.
001 BB 271 - MW 12:45PM - 02:00PM       Bryant, John B.           Enr: 9 Max: 0

ECON 504   ADVANCED ECONOMIC STATISTICS             Credits 5.00  Fall 02
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: 10 Max: 0

ECON 507   MATHEMATICAL ECONOMICS I                 Credits 5.00  Fall 02
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 509   MICROECONOMICS III                       Credits 5.00  Fall 02
Social choice and preference aggregation; cardinal welfarism,
bargaining:axiomatic and strategic models; cooperative games: core stability
and coalition formation; shapley value, cost and surplus sharing, mechanism
design: dominant strategy, strategproof voting, fair division, and cost
sharing; implementation in nash, strong, and bayesian equilibrium.
Prereq- ECON 501, ECON 508
001 BB 271 - TTH 09:00AM - 10:15AM      Moulin, Herve             Enr: 6 Max: NA

ECON 511   ECONOMETRICS II                          Credits 5.00  Fall 02
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 12:30PM - 01:45PM       Brown, Bryan W.           Enr: 9 Max: 0

ECON 514   INDUST'L ORGANIZATION&CONTROL            Credits 5.00  Fall 02
Industrial markets and public policy.
001 BB 271 - TTH 11:30AM - 12:45PM      Dudey, Marc P.            Enr: 12 Max: NA

ECON 522   PUBLIC FINANCE II                        Credits 5.00  Fall 02
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: 2 Max: 0

ECON 523   DYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION                     Credits 5.00  Fall 02
Dynamics, capital theory and intertemporal optimization.
001 BB 271 - MW 02:10PM - 03:25PM       Bogomolnaia, Anna         Enr: 6 Max: NA

ECON 593   WORKSHOP IN MICROECONOMICS               Credits 5.00  Fall 02
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 BB 116 - T 03:00PM - 05:00PM        Hartley, Peter R.         Enr: 3 Max: 0
002 BB 116 - TTH 03:30PM - 05:00PM      Moulin, Herve             Enr: 6 Max: NA
003 BB 116 - F 03:00PM - 05:00PM        Sickles, Robin            Enr: 10 Max: NA
004 TBA - M 03:30PM - 05:00PM           Berman, Eli               Enr: 1 Max: NA

ECON 595   WORKSHOP IN ECONOMICS II                 Credits 5.00  Fall 02
This is the second year continuation of Econ 593-594.
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: 0
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 02
No description
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: 0

ECON 800   GRADUATE RESEARCH                        Credits   Fall 02
No Description.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 14 Max: 0