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1.50 Credits
Burdekin Focuses on a number of major current issues in monetary and financial policy. Topics include the political and economic forces that stimulate inflationary pressures, the debate over the effects of fiscal deficits and strategies for conducting monetary policy in a world of financial innovations and international interdependence. Practicum component requires collaboration on a research project that will be orally presented to an appropriate outside mentor. Prerequisites: Economics 101, 102, and 120. Offered every year.
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1.50 Credits
Hughson An advanced treatment and analysis of capital markets, financial instruments and portfolio theory. Topics covered include asset valuation, risk measurement and control, and portfolio design for large institutions. Prerequisites: Economics 102 and 134. Offered every year.
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1.50 Credits
Staff A survey of international trade, financial markets and monetary relations, including their analytical foundations, empirical and institutional manifestations, and policy implications. Prerequisite: Economics 50. Offered every semester.
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1.50 Credits
Arndt A survey of international trade theory and policy, openeconomy macroeconomics, and international financial markets. Prerequisites: Economics 101 and 102. Offered every semester.
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1.50 Credits
Ascher This seminar addresses how resource-dependent countries ought to husband these resources and invest the proceeds productively. It employs the policy sciences framework to explore the political and economic-policy challenges of minimizing the abuse of resource endowments due to mis-pricing, corruption, intra-governmental conflicts, and perverse governance arrangements. It examines the economics of resources and environmental services, why governments abuse natural resources, and what strategies hold promise for better resource use and environmental protection. Cases are drawn predominantly from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Also listed as Government 132e. Prerequisites: Economics 101 and Government 20. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Lambertini Presents basic elements of balance of payments and exchange rate theory and policy, open economy macroeconomics, international financial management, and the evolution of the international monetary system. Prerequisites: Economics 101 and 102. Offered every year.
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1.50 Credits
Arndt This course examines the costs and benefits of preferential economic integration in Europe, North America, and Asia and considers the future of proposed groupings like the Free Trade Area of the Americas. The increase in recent years of preferential trade arrangements between advanced and poor countries raises important questions about their role in economic development. In the financial and monetary area, integration is a reality in Europe and under serious discussion in other regions, where it is widely viewed as a superior alternative to existing exchange-rate arrangements. Course work includes readings and teambased area studies. Prerequisites: Economics 101 and 102. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
J. Smith An integrative economics course with a focus on professional and intercollegiate sports. The course builds on microeconomic theory of industrial organization, antitrust economics, labor economics, financial economics, and public finance. Specific topics include: organizational structure of sports leagues, tournament compensation, team production, the draft, salary compensation, endorsements, salary caps, player value, franchise value, and stadium finance. Prerequisites: Economics 101, 120, and at least two of the following courses: Economics 86, 125, 165, 167, or 175. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
J. Smith In a business economics setting, strategy is concerned with long-term "big picture" decision-making, includingdetermining firm boundaries, evaluating the firm's competitive environment, designing internal organization and compensation structure, and identifying the relation between strategy and organizational decisions. Besides exploring examples of strategic management decisions through case studies, the course develops a formal analytic framework for thinking about strategic management decisions based on recent developments in the fields of economics and strategy, including game theory. Prerequisites: Economics 86 and 101. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Goeree, Filson Covers the latest theories and empirical evidence concerning the organization of firms and industries. It compares the traditional structure-conduct-performance paradigm with recent advances based on microeconomic theory including transactions cost economics, game theory, strategic behavior, contestability, and information theory. The focus is on applying theories of industrial organization to common business practices and on evaluating U.S. antitrust policy toward these practices. Prerequisite: Economics 101. Offered every year.
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