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3.00 Credits
Wachter. Prerequisite(s): None. This course focuses on international comparisons of housing finance systems and housing market outcomes. This includes comparative analyses of the financial and economic factors that underlay housing market differences and similarities. Changing housing market institutions and policies in developed and emerging economies are examined. The course also addresses the implications of the integration of global financial markets for national housing markets. International speakers present their views on institutional innovations and the policy setting process in their respective markets. Various approaches to understanding these issues will be used, including readings, written assignments, and group projects.
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3.00 Credits
Seim. Prerequisite(s): ECON 001, AP credit or the equivalent; MATH 103, AP credit or the equivalent. This course introduces students to "managerial economics," the application of microeconomic theory to management problems. Microeconomic theory is a remarkably useful body of ideas for understanding and analyzing human behavior in a variety of contexts. Our goal in this course is to get you to internalize this body of theory well enough so that you can analyze management problems. While this is a "tools course", we will be mindful of applied business problems throughout the course. After presenting the competitive model we will dwell on other market structures more like those encountered by typical firms (monopoly, oligopoly, monopolistic competition). We will spend some time on microeconomic lessons on the development and use of market power, as well as strategic interaction among firms. Finally, we will spend some time on the theory of market failure.
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3.00 Credits
Kunreuther. Prerequisite(s): None, but microeconomics helpful. This course is designed to introduce students to the complexities of making decisions about threats to human health and the environment when people's perceptions of risks and their decision-making processes differ from expert views. Recognizing the limitations of individuals in processing information, the course explores the role of techniques such as decision analysis, cost-benefit analysis, risk assessment and risk perception in structuring risk-management decisions. We will also examine policy tools such as risk communication, incentive systems, third party inspection, insurance and regulation in different problem contexts. The problem contexts for studying the interactions between analysis, perceptions, and communication will include risk-induced stigmatization of products (e.g. alar, British beef), places (e.g. Love Canal), and technologies (e.g. nuclear power); the siting of noxious facilities, radon, managing catastrophic risks including those from terrorism. A course project will enable students to apply the concepts discussed in the course to a concrete problem.
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3.00 Credits
Pack, H. Prerequisite(s): Wharton Managerial Economics or an undergraduate intermediate microeconomics course. The course analyzes the problems of emerging markets. The course considers the industrialization strategies they have chosen and the recent financial and macroeconomic problems they have encountered. Particular emphasis will be given to the recent problems of Latin American and Asian countries that experienced rapid growth for considerable periods only to encounter major reversals in the last half of the 1990s. The implications of this experience for the private and public sectors will be considered in detail. The role of foreign aid, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in dealing with crises in developing countries will be explored in detail.
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3.00 Credits
Pack, H. Prerequisite(s): Econ 2 or its equivalent, Finance 102. This course is designed for students who are interested in pursuing an international career and for those who plan to work for industrial and financial corporations that operate in emerging markets. The course will deal with the economic and political problems of macroeconomic adjustment, corruption, the transition economies, and international financial transactions. All of these topics will be illustrated with in-depth studies of economies in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and China.
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3.00 Credits
Choksi. Prerequisite(s): None. Privatization is sweeping the globe. The redefinition of boundaries between the public and private sectors creates new and exciting opportunities for businesses and policy makers. This course will review the international experience with privatization -- the Thatcher privatizations of the 1980s, the current sale of utilities, airlines, and telecommunication companies in emerging and developed economies. We will analyze the ongoing transformation of post Communist countries. Students will learn how to value state-owned assets using real option value techniques. We will discuss bidding strategies in privatization auctions. The last part of the course offers an introduction to project finance as a new form of cooperation between the public and private sectors.
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3.00 Credits
Allen. Prerequisite(s): None, but microeconomics helpful. This course is an introductory course designed to familiarize the student with the subject matter of transportation. Expenditure in the transportation industry totals 16% of the US Gross Domestic Product and transportation and other supply chain expenditures in many firms are second only to labor costs. While the industry has been substantially deregulated in the last 25 years, the transition to deregulation is not complete and the legacy of the 100 years of regulation still exists. In addition, the industry is unique in the sense that a major portion of the major factor of production (its infrastructure) is publicly financed. These factors make the industry different from others and suggest different management policies. Topics covered include: location analysis, mass transport, costs and pricing analysis, regulation and deregulation, and economic development.
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3.00 Credits
Wolfers. Prerequisite(s): None. This class considers an intriguing and growing set of non-traditional markets, including trading (or gambling) on the outcome of sporting events, elections, political risks, corporate outcomes, public policy and economic statistics. We will explore these markets, drawing on insights from economics and psychology, and highlighting the parallels between these markets and other existing markets. We will examine the potential uses of these markets in the business and public policy domains. Importantly, the success of these markets depends on whether these markets yield efficient forecasts, which in turn depends on factors such as market design, and the biases exhibited by individual traders. We then turn to discussing recent advances in behavioral economics and attempt to apply psychologically-grounded theories of information processing to a particular set of prediction markets: sports betting. Assessing potentially profitable trading strategies with a critical eye, we will discuss not only investment opportunities, but what these findings reveal about both human psychology and the operation of markets.
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3.00 Credits
Kunreuther. Prerequisite(s): None, but microeconomics helpful. This course is designed to introduce students to the role of risk assessment, risk perception and risk management in dealing with uncertain health, safety and environmental risks including the threat of terrorism. It explores the role of decision analysis as well as the use of scenarios for dealing with these problems. The course will evaluate the role of policy tools such as risk communication, economic incentives, insurance, regulation and private-public partnerships in developing strategies for managing these risks. A project will enable students to apply the concepts discussed in the course to a concrete problem.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Prerequisite(s): A basic understanding of microeconomics. This course explores the role of government in the economy. We will first consider the economic rationale for government intervention in the economy - in which situations is government intervention in private markets warranted We will then analyze the successes, failures, and compromises inherent in government interventions in a variety of areas, such as: the environment, legalizing marijuana, research and development, piracy and intellectual property, merger policy, financial disclosure, banking, airlines, media, social security, terrorism, bankruptcy, education, health care, labor unions, employment regulation, and tax policy.
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