Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2000
Economics (ECON)
Rice Course Schedule as of 01/03/2000.
This schedule is maintained by the Office of the Registrar
(reg@rice.edu).
NOTE: Course web pages are available for some ECON courses.
ECON 211 PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* 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.
001 TBA - TTH 01:00PM - 02:15PM Soligo, Ronald Enr: 0 Max: 45
002 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 45
003 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 45
004 TBA - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM Staff Enr: 0 Max: 45
ECON 212 PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* 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.
Prereq- Econ 211. A FOUNDATION COURSE.
001 TBA - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Brown, Bryan W. Enr: 0 Max: 45
002 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 45
003 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 45
004 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 45
005 TBA - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM Staff Enr: 0 Max: 45
ECON 355 MONEY AND BANKING Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* 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.
001 TBA Smith, Gordon W. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ECON 370 MICROECONOMIC THEORY Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Intermediate level analysis of markets, firms, households, income distribution,
and general equilibrium.
Prereq- Econ 211.
001 TBA Hasker, Kevin E. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ECON 375 MACROECONOMIC THEORY Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* 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 TBA Barut, Yasar N. Enr: 0 Max: 50
ECON 382 ELEMENTS OF STAT METHODS Credits 3.00 Spring 00
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 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ECON 403 SENIOR INDEPENDENT RESEARCH Credits 3.00 Spring 00
Independent research project for seniors on an approved topic of their own
choosing.
Prereq- permission of instructor.
001 TBA Smith, George Enr: 0 Max: NA
Smith, Gordon W.
ECON 404 SR INDEPENDENT RES Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Econ 403.
001 TBA Smith, George Enr: 0 Max: NA
Smith, Gordon W.
ECON 415 HUMAN RES,WAGES&WELFARE Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Study of labor markets and wage determination. Special emphasis on "investment
in human capital" through education, training, and health services.
Prereq- Econ 211.
001 TBA - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Brown, James Nicholas Enr: 0 Max: 45
ECON 416 ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE U.S. Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Overview of U.S. economic history from the colonial period to World War II.
Prereq- Econ 211 and Econ 370 or 372.
001 TBA - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM Hasker, Kevin E. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ECON 421 INTERNATIONAL FINANCE Credits 3.00 Spring 00
Analysis of foreign exchange and international capital markets. Linkages
between exchange rates, interest rates, and prices. Overview of historical and
institutional developments, and current policy issues.
Prereq- Econ 370, 375, Stat 280 or Econ 382.
001 TBA - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Merz, Monika Enr: 0 Max: 25
ECON 437 ECONOMICS OF INFO, COMMON PROPERTY RESOU Credits 3.00 Spring 00
The course addresses the economics of information, common property resources
and public goods. The course will address such topics as software piracy, the
greenhouse effect, congestion, testing, affirmative action and insurance.
Prereq- Econ 370 or 372.
001 TBA - MWF 02:00PM - 02:50PM Brito, Dagobert L. Enr: 0 Max: 25
ECON 439 ECONOMICS OF THE LAW II Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
The role of economics in understanding the legal system. Applications to
financial markets, insurance, discrimination and constitutional issues.
Prereq- Econ 211 and 370 or permission of the instructor; Econ 438.
001 TBA - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM Brito, Dagobert L. Enr: 0 Max: 25
ECON 440 ECONOMICS OF UNCERTAINTY Credits 3.00 Spring 00
Decision making under uncertainty with applications to the choice of financial
assets, the operation of insurance markets, research in markets with imperfect
information and the microeconomic foundations of macroeconomics.
Prereq- Econ 211, 212, and 372; Math 101, 102 and some familiarity with
probability theory as gained in Econ 382, Stat 310 or stat 381.
001 TBA - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Hartley, Peter R. Enr: 0 Max: 25
ECON 445 MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS Credits 3.00 Spring 00
Application of economics to decision making within the firm; organization
theory, cost, pricing, and problems of control. Econ 212 desirable.
Prereq- Econ 211.
001 TBA - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Sickles, Robin Enr: 0 Max: NA
ECON 448 CORPORATION FINANCE Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* 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 TBA Chang, Yoosoon Enr: 0 Max: NA
ECON 450 WORLD ECON&SOCIAL DEV Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
No description
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ECON 452 PRINCIPLES OF ISLAMIC ECONOMICS AND FINA Credits 3.00 Spring 00
An analysis of the positive and normative contribution to economics and finance
of studying religious law in light of recent economic theory and empirical
findings.
Prereq- Econ 370 and 375.
001 TBA - TTH 01:00PM - 02:15PM El-Gamal, Mahmoud A. Enr: 0 Max: 20
ECON 455 MONEY&FINANC'L MARKETS Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* 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 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ECON 472 INTRODUCTION TO GAME THEORY Credits 3.00 Spring 00
Solution concepts for different games: strategic form game, coalition form
game and extensive form game. Elementary application to economics and
political science.
001 TBA - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Chae, Suchan Enr: 0 Max: 45
ECON 475 OPERATIONS RESEARCH DETERMINISTIC MODELS Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Modeling and solving optimization problems with discrete components, graphs and
networks; network flow problems; minimum spanning trees; basic polyhedral
theory; the knapsack problem; the plant location problem; the set packing
problem; computational complexity, branch and bound; cutting planes; Lagrangian
relaxation and Bender's decomposition.
Prereq- Caam 471.
Also offered as CAAM 475
001 TBA Cook, William J. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ECON 476 OPERATIONS RESEARCH- STOCHASTIC MODELS Credits 3.00 Spring 00
Probability and decisions; random selection; Markov chains and decision
processes; waiting lines; martingale models.
Prereq- Caam 381 or Stat 310.
Also offered as CAAM 476
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ECON 480 ENVIRONMENTAL & ENERGY ECON Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* 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 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ECON 482 DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE: A MICROECONOMIC AP Credits 3.00 Spring 00
An examination of various theories of distributive justice, analyzed
from the
perspective of microeconomic theory. Topics covered include
social contract
doctrines, aggregation of preferences and voting,
theories of cooperative
behavior and coordination failure, division of
surpluses, measurement of
inequality, and alternative approaches to both
end-state and precedural
justice.
Prereq- ECON 211, 370 or permission from instructor.
001 TBA - TTH 01:00PM - 02:15PM Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ECON 485 CONTEMPORARY ECONOMIC ISSUES Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
No description
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ECON 486 CONTEMPORARY ECONOMIC PROBLEMS Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This special course examines the status and causes of poverty in the
contemporary United States. Both economic and social science theories and
models are analyzed as well as media depictions of the poor. Students
formulate and carry out a field research project as the culminating element of
the course.
Also offered as SOCI 486
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ECON 496 SENIOR SEMINAR Credits 3.00 Spring 00
Study the growing influence of experimental methods in Economics and other
Social Sciences, with hands-on experience in designing and running experiments.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ECON 500 MASTER'S THESIS RES Credits 0.00 Spring 00
Research on an approved topic in partial fulfillment of the requirements for
the master's degree.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ECON 505 MACROECON/MONETARY THEORY II Credits 5.00 Spring 00
More detailed discussion of selective Macroeconomic and Monetary topics.
001 TBA - TTH 02:10PM - 03:25PM Bryant, John B. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ECON 506 TOPICS IN MACROECON/MONETARY THEORY Credits 5.00 Spring 00
Selected topics of current interest. The purpose of the course is to introduce
students to active research issues and methods to the neoclassical school.
001 TBA - MW 09:00AM - 10:15AM Merz, Monika Enr: 0 Max: NA
ECON 508 MICROECONOMIC THEORY II Credits 5.00 Spring 00
Continuation of Economics 507. Set theoretic approach to general equilibrium;
aggregate linear and nonlinear production models; existence, stability,
optimality.
001 TBA - TTH 12:45PM - 02:00PM Dudey, Marc P. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ECON 510 ECONOMETRICS I Credits 5.00 Spring 00
Estimation and inference in single equation regression models,
multicollinearity, autocorrelated and heteroskedastic disturbances, distributed
lags, asymptotic theory, and maximum likelihood techniques. Emphasis is placed
on the ability to analyze critically the literature.
Prereq- Econ 504.
Also offered as STAT 610
001 TBA - TTH 09:15AM - 10:30AM El-Gamal, Mahmoud A. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ECON 515 LABOR ECONOMICS Credits 5.00 Spring 00
The economics of the labor market and the economic implication of trade unions.
Attention is given to major public policy issues.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ECON 516 ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE U.S. Credits 5.00 Spring 00
Overview of U.S. economic history from the colonial period to World War II.
001 TBA - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM Hasker, Kevin E. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ECON 521 PUBLIC FINANCE I Credits 5.00 Spring 00
Theory of public goods and externalities, political mechanisms and public
choice, theory of local public goods, cost-benefit analysis and project
evaluation issues of income redistribution.
001 TBA - TTH 10:45AM - 12:00PM Mieszkowski, Peter Enr: 0 Max: NA
ECON 522 PUBLIC FINANCE II Credits 5.00 Spring 00
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 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ECON 578 THE THEORY OF FINANCE Credits 5.00 Spring 00
Study the growing influence of experimental methods in economics and other
social sciences, with hands-on experience in designing and running experiments.
001 TBA - MW 10:45AM - 12:00PM Staff Enr: 0 Max: 45
ECON 579 TOPICS IN ECONOMETRICS Credits 5.00 Spring 00
Selected topics in advanced mathematical Econometrics.
001 TBA - M 07:00PM - 10:00PM Chang, Yoosoon Enr: 0 Max: NA
ECON 592 TOP-POLICY&APPL'D ECON Credits 3.00 Spring 00
No description
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ECON 594 WORKSHOP IN ECONOMICS I Credits 3.00 Spring 00
Continuation of Econ 593.
001 TBA - M 03:00PM - 05:00PM Barut, Yasar N. Enr: 0 Max: NA
002 TBA - TH 03:00PM - 05:00PM Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
003 TBA - F 03:00PM - 05:00PM TBA Enr: 0 Max: NA
004 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: NA
ECON 596 WORKSHOP IN ECONOMICS II Credits 3.00 Spring 00
Continuation of Econ 595.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
002 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: NA
003 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: NA
004 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: NA
ECON 598 READINGS IN ADVANCED TOPICS Credits 3.00 Spring 00
No description
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
002 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: NA
ECON 800 GRADUATE RESEARCH Credits Spring 00
No description
001 TBA Zodrow, George R. Enr: 0 Max: NA
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