Economics (ECON)

Description: Basic policy implications of monetary economics with special reference to the role of money in the determination of income, employment, and prices. Includes demand for and supply of money, commercial and central banking system, monetary policy-making, nonbank financial system, and other issues in monetary economics.

Description: Experience with research methods in economics. Statistical analysis to investigate economic issues and related policies; find relevant data; perform and interpret univariate and multivariate statistical analyses; and formulate and test specific hypotheses.

Description: Focuses on the features of common insurance contracts, legislative and administrative restrictions on insurance contracts and judicial techniques for interpreting, construing and regulating insurance contracts.

Description: Equilibrium Analysis: Applications in business, finance, and economics. Market equilibria, accumulations, and economics. Optimization: profit, cost, and utility functions. Constrained optimization problems with utility functions. Constrained optimization problems in production and consumer allocations; Kuhn and Tucker conditions; static and dynamic input-output Models.

Description: Decision making under conditions of uncertainty. Introduction to Bayesian methods including the main methods of traditional statistics. Both prior knowledge and consequences of decision error are explicitly taken into account in the analysis.

Description: Introduction to Basic Econometric methods including economic model estimation and analyses of economic and business data. Hypothesis formulation and testing, economic prediction and problems in analyzing economic cross-section and time series data are considered.

Description: Selected topics involving the use of quantitative methods in applied research.

Description: Determinants of the volume, prices, and commodity composition of trade. Effects of trade, international resource movements, trade restrictions on resource allocation, income distribution, and social welfare.

Description: Determinants of exchange rates, international payments, inflation, unemployment, national income, and interest rates in an open economy. International monetary system and capital and financial markets, and of the mechanisms by which a national economy and the rest of the world adjust to external disturbances.

Description: Advanced survey of development problems and goals; roles of land, labor, capital, entrepreneurship, and technical progress in economic growth of the less developed countries. Theories and strategies relating to international trade and economic development.

Description: Legal and administrative aspects of the regulation of land use and development, the problems and techniques of urban planning at the various levels of government, and the relationship of private owners and builders to the government policies involved in shaping the physical environment.

Description: Control of business activities through the federal antitrust laws. Emphasis on monopolies, joint ventures, pricefixing, boycotts, resale price maintenance, exclusive dealing and tying arrangements, territorial restrictions, and mergers.

Description: Study of the federal and state statutes and common law doctrines restricting unfair methods of competition in business. Topics include false advertising, trademark law, misappropriation, trade secret law and the right of publicity.

Description: Selected problems in products liability, with emphasis on research and writing projects analyzing the problems.

Description: Advanced analysis of regional growth and development. Emphasis on the relationship between national and regional growth as well as local attributes influencing development patterns. Comparisons between developed and developing countries used to highlight similarities and differences in development patterns and policies. Empirical applicability of regional economic models stressed.

Description: Introduction to economic theory and empirical research on race and gender differences in economic outcomes and social circumstances. Topics include discrimination, history of exclusionary public policy, evolution of gender roles, human capital, the criminal justice system.

Description: Structure and function of the economic system and problems in achieving goals of efficient allocation of resources, full employment, stable prices, economic growth, and security. Emphasis on teaching of economics at the pre-college level.

Description: Organization and planning, instructional strategies, assessment methods, and related topics for teaching economics and business courses in colleges and universities.

Description: Survey of methods, theories, and analyses of education from an economics perspective. Education and human capital, educational production and cost functions, cost-benefit analysis, supply and demand for educators, education and economic growth. Survey of methods, theories, and analyses of education from an economics perspective. Education and human capital, educational production and cost functions, cost-benefit analysis, supply and demand for educators, education and economic growth.

Description: Survey of research studies in the field of economic education. Research questions, data sources, theoretical models, experimental designs, statistical procedures, and research findings.

Description: Transformation of the United States economy from an agrarian to an industrial society and the impact of that transformation on people's livelihoods. The economic of slavery, the impact of the railroads, immigration, and the collective response of business and labor to industrialization.

Description: Transformation of the United States economy in the twentieth century. Attention to the continued consolidation of the business enterprise, business cycle episodes including the Great Depression of the 1930's, organized labor, and the role of government in managing and coping with this transformation in economic life.

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Description: Prepares students to conduct social and economic planning, program evaluation, and budgeting. Analysis of the delivery of government goods and services consistent with values and societal goals. Includes: philosophy of government, budget theory, social indicators, social fabric matrix, cost effective analysis, technology assessment, evaluation of the natural environment, and time analysis.

Description: Analysis of microeconomic decision-making by individuals and firms with emphasis on consumer demand, production, cost and profit, market structure and the economics of games, uncertainty, and information.

Description: Course prepares student for applied macroeconomic analysis in a business, governmental or academic setting. Empirical modeling strategies are developed from theoretical underpinnings to implementation, including data collection, estimation, forecasting, simulation, presentation and interpretation.

Description: Legislative and judicial patterns of the modern labor movement; the objectives of labor combinations; the forms of pressure employed for their realization and prevention; strikes, boycotts, picketing, and lockouts; the legal devices utilized in carving out the permissible bounds of damage suits involving labor activity; the labor injunction; the National Labor Relations Board; the nature of collective bargaining agreements; extra legal procedure for settling labor disputes-the techniques of mediation, conciliation, and arbitration.

Description: Microeconomics of wages and employment; determinants of labor demand and supply; marginal productivity; bargaining theories of wages; labor mobility and allocation among employers; and the impact of unions, government policy, investment in human capital; and discrimination in labor markets.

Description: Macroeconomics aspects of labor economics; how the labor sector of the economy and the economy's overall performance are interrelated; analysis of the general level of wages, employment, unemployment, business cycles, and inflation.

Description: Government regulation of employment and labor relations. Includes laws and agencies relating to employment practices, pay, hours, equal employment opportunity, labor relations, safety, health, pensions, and benefits. Social and economic implications of governmental regulation considered.

Description: Origin and growth of the administrative process, the development of administrative law and its impact upon traditional legal institutions, analysis of the types of federal and state administrative tribunals, their powers and functions, and problems of administrative procedure, judicial and other controls upon the administrative process.

Description: Advanced topics in aggregate dynamics and growth.

Description: Advanced topics in macroeconomic fluctuations.

Description: Survey of the theory of individual choice; demand, supply, production, price formation. Theory of market structure.

Description: Survey of general equilibrium and welfare theory; proof of the existence and stability of equilibrium allocations, their welfare interpretation, welfare functions, externalities, the possibility theorem, the theory of clubs.

Description: Survey of various economic tools used to study models explicitly involving strategic behavior, information transmission, and contracting in economics, finance, accounting, and other business disciplines.

Description: Matrix-based approach to the construction of statistical economic models, estimation of model parameters, and econometric inference. Multiple hypothesis tests, prediction, and general error structures.

Description: Continuation of Econometrics I involving a more advanced treatment of statistical economics models. Identification problem and alternative methods of estimating parameters.

Description: Public sector core concepts and empirical methods focused on government revenues, taxation, and fiscal incidence. The role of government in the economy and foundations of public economics. Taxation of commodities, income, and consumption. Efficiency and equity objectives, along with policy considerations.

Description: Advanced theory of the influence of fiscal instruments upon stability, growth, employment, balance of payments, and portfolios. Constraints of money and debt management. Generation and control of inflation. Policy applications.