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4.00 Credits
The markets for professional and amateur sports and entertainment are analyzed. Impacts of market organization and public policy on attendance, salaries, and profits are examined.
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4.00 Credits
Theoretical and empirical analysis of contemporary topics in industrial organization. Uses economic theory to analyze important issues facing firms, and examines the practical challenges of empirical applications of theory. Topics include horizontal relationships and mergers, vertical integration and control through contractual arrangements, price discrimination, information and search costs, innovation and intellectual property rights, and network externalities. Each topic combines theoretical analysis with a study of actual firm behavior.
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4.00 Credits
Theory and modern empirical techniques in industrial organization. Topics may include static analysis and estimation of market equilibrium; dynamic models of entry and investment; price discrimination, collusion, mergers and vertical control, with applications to antitrust policy; and issues in auctions and market design.
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4.00 Credits
Provides a survey, from the perspective of economics, of environmental and natural resource policy. Combines lectures on conceptual and methodological topics with examinations of public policy issues. Topics include principles of environmental and resource economics, nonrenewable resources (minerals and energy), renewable resources (fisheries), air pollution (stationary and mobile sources, acid rain, and global climate change), and sustainable development and political aspects of environmental policy.
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4.00 Credits
Survey of foundations and applications of the modern theory of environmental and natural-resource economics. What are the basic models and what are they suggesting about policy? Externalities, public goods, common property, strategies for controlling pollution. Dynamics of renewable resources (fisheries, forestry) and dynamics of non-renewable resources (minerals like oil). Discounting, uncertainty, cost-benefit analysis, investment criteria for environmental projects, green accounting, sustainability. Basic economic analysis of climate change as prototype example.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the economic analysis of investment decisions and financial markets. Concepts include time discounting, market efficiency, risk, and arbitrage. These concepts are applied to fixed-income securities, equities, and derivative securities.
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4.00 Credits
Introduction to corporate finance, including capital budgeting, capital structure of firms, dividend policy, corporate governance, and takeovers.
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4.00 Credits
This course provides a detailed examination of events in financial markets during the crisis period that began in August of 2007. Topics include: the housing bubble and mortgage markets, the role of the banks and the shadow banking system, policy responses by the Treasury and the Federal Reserve, and longer-run regulatory reform. The conceptual approach to these topics will draw heavily on recent research in financial economics.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the influence of religious thinking on the intellectual revolution, associated with Adam Smith and others, that created economics as we know it as an independent discipline; also examines how the lasting resonances from these early religious influences continue to shape discussion of economic issues and debates about economic policy down to our own day.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the impacts from 'small differences' in policies between Canada and the United States. Topics include social insurance programs, regulation, taxation, unionization, education, and immigration. Each comparison involves first describing stylized facts and statistics for both countries, and second critically assessing recent empirical research. The course is designed to engage students in the debate over tradeoffs from key policy options, and to expose them to approaches to program evaluation for generating convincing conclusions.
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