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3.00 Credits
David Atkin. tth 2.30-3.45 So (0) Comparison of some developing countries, where international trade has brought about rapid growth and large-scale reductions in poverty, with other countries, where global trade has increased inequality and brought little growth. Both theoretical models and empirical evidence are used. Prerequisites: intermediate microeconomics and an econometrics or statistics course.
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3.00 Credits
David Swensen, DeanTakahashi. m 1-3.20 So (0) Examination of investment management in theory and practice. Discussion of asset allocation, investment strategy, and manager selection from the perspective of an institutional investor. Focus on the degree of market efficiency and opportunity for generating attractive returns.
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3.00 Credits
Keith Gamble. m 1.30-3.20 So (0) The impact of limits to arbitrage; psychological biases on asset prices and investment behavior. Analysis of documented deviations from the predictions of traditional financial theory. After intermediate microeconomics, econometrics, and either econ 251a or 252b.
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3.00 Credits
Alvin Klevorick. m 2.30-4.30 So (0) The character, logic, and economic effects of U.S. antitrust laws, drawing on legal and economic analyses. Major areas of antitrust law: price fixing and other horizontal restraints of trade, vertical restraints of trade, monopolization, and mergers. After intermediate microeconomics or equivalent. Preference to students who have completed econ 200b.
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3.00 Credits
Judith Chevalier. t 3.30-5.20 So (0) The economics of information, communication, and electronic commerce. Topics include the communications infrastructure-telephone, broadband, and wireless communications-and the regulation and adoption of these technologies; the basiceconomics of selected uses of the Internet; the organization of businesses as they are affected by new communications technologies; and intellectual property and antitrust issues in the information economy. Prerequisite: introductory microeconomics.
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3.00 Credits
Michael Schmertzler. m 1.30-3.20 So (0) A case-oriented study of principal issues and investment types found in substantial private equity portfolios. Topics include enterprise valuation, value creation, business economics, negotiation, and legal structure, based on primary source materials and original cases. Prerequisites: intermediate microeconomics or equivalent, and econometrics. econ 457b, Financial History. William Goetzmann. t9.25-11.15 So (0) The history of finance and capital ma rkets fr om the Mesopotamian origins of financial instruments, via the mathematical development of compound interest calculations, to modern times. Focus on innovations in the technology of finance. Prerequisites: intermediate macro economics or equivalent, and econometrics. No previous training in finance is assumed.
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3.00 Credits
Tri Vi Dang. m 1.30-3.20 So (0) Selected themes in corporate finance: financial instruments and financing patterns, the valuation of assets, capital structure decisions, taxes, financial contracting, costs of debt and equity finance, internal and external finance, venture capital and private equity finance, and security design. After introductory microeconomics.
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3.00 Credits
Julian Jamison. t 2.30-4.20 So (0) Introduction to neuroeconomics. The definition and measurement of subjective well-being; what economic and scientific theories can do to help maximize well-being in everyday life. Readings from economics, neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology. After intermediate microeconomics or equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
JodySindelar. th 1-2.50 So (0) Smoking, alcoholism, illicit drugs, and obesity studied from economic and policy perspectives. Focus on causes of and solutions to problems. After introductory microeconomics.
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3.00 Credits
EduardoEngel. For description see under Economics.
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