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  • ECON 324: Options and Futures

    3.00 Credits
    Lafayette College

    This course examines the practices and principal theories of major options and futures markets. Special emphasis is placed on the role of derivative securities in facilitating risk management. Prerequisite: Prerequisite: Econ 321. Chambers, Kelly
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  • ECON 325: Women and the Economy

    3.00 Credits
    Lafayette College

    This course surveys a wide range of economic issues relating to women's lives with special emphasis on family, work, and income. Public policy applications are stressed. [W] Prerequisite: ECON 101 Staff
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  • ECON 326: Entrepreneurial Finance and Management

    3.00 Credits
    Lafayette College

    This course is designed for students with an interest in the critical examination of small businesses from inception to growth phase and ultimately to the mature business model. The course focuses on key elements of new business ventures with particular emphasis on differences that exist in the financing and cash-flow management techniques critical to the survival of entrepreneurial ventures. [W] Prerequisite: Econ 319 Bukics
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  • ECON 330: Urban Economics and Public Policy

    3.00 Credits
    Lafayette College

    An introduction to the economic analysis of urban areas. Theories of urban growth and of intra-metropolitan land use are explored. Topics include trends in the location of economic activity within urban areas, the urbanization of poverty, and problems of urban government. Prerequisite: Prerequisites: Econ 211, 212, or permission of instructor Ahene
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  • ECON 331: Industrial Organization

    3.00 Credits
    Lafayette College

    This course integrates microeconomic theory with economic application techniques in an investigation of various market structures, strategic firm interaction, antitrust issues, and economic regulation. Beginning with the standard Structure-Conduct-Performance paradigm and proceeding through some of the most recently developed theories in noncooperative games, the course content exposes students to an array of methods that facilitate the analysis of market structures, antitrust, and regulatory issues. Prerequisite: Econ 211 or permission of instructor Ruebeck
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  • ECON 332: Economics of Labor

    3.00 Credits
    Lafayette College

    A general course in labor economics with a focus on the theoretical and actual operation of the labor market. The course includes consideration of problems, policies, and theories concerned with the labor force, wages, unemployment, productivity, human capital, worker health and safety, poverty, the economic effect of unions, and alternatives to orthodox theories. [W] Prerequisite: Econ 211, 212, 213, or permission of instructor Averett
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  • ECON 333: Managerial Economics

    3.00 Credits
    Lafayette College

    This course covers the practical application of microeconomic theory to business problems. Examples of these problems include: price and output decisions and cost and demand functions in various markets under risk and uncertainty. Case studies are used to exemplify specific problems. Prerequisite: Econ 211, 213 Staff
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  • ECON 334: Economic Growth

    3.00 Credits
    Lafayette College

    This course explores the causes of long-term growth. It begins by asking why some countries are rich and others are poor, then investigates the roles of population growth and capital accumulation in the growth process in the context of the neoclassical growth model. Finally, the course investigates the roles of technology and social infrastructure in the growth process in the context of new growth theory. The course concludes with an investigation of the impact of long-term growth on the environment. Prerequisite: Econ 211, 212 Gamber
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  • ECON 335: Environmental Economics

    3.00 Credits
    Lafayette College

    This course is designed to give students a better understanding of how the environment and the economy interact and how public policy can be used to shape this interaction. The course begins by sketching out the flows of natural resources associated with economic activity and how the environmental effects produced by these flows are valued. The course then proceeds to show how market economies affect the environment. Particular emphasis is placed on the environmental damage generated by market economies and how public policy can best be used to address this damage. Prerequisite: Econ 211 DeVault
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  • ECON 338: Economics of Sports

    3.00 Credits
    Lafayette College

    The application of theoretical economics to the sports industry. Professional and collegiate sports offer opportunities for both theoretical and empirical research due to the amount of data that is available. Topics include market structure and antitrust, managerial decisions for inputs and outputs, pay and performance in labor markets. Students chose a topic area for presentation and write a paper on a contemporary sports issue. Prerequisite: Econ 211, 213; 365; or permission of instructor Bruggink
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