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A survey of investments and corporate finance. The basic financial instruments, how they are used, traded, and priced; the financial decision-making processes of the firm: project selection, dividend, and debt policy. Does not count for B.S., B.A. or Minor degree. Economics 151 is not open to students who have taken Economics 157, 168, 172,181, and/or 200ES. Prerequisites: Economics 51D; and Statistics 103, 104, 113, 114, and Mathematics 102 or higher. Instructor: Fullenkamp or staff
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Old and recent developments in search for broader, sharper explanations of variation in market structure, technological development and living standards observed across time, countries, and industries. Historical study of writings of Smith, Ricardo, Marx, Malthus and Schumpeter. Study of modern growth theory and its implications. Instructor: Peretto
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The operations of commercial and central banking and non-banking financial institutions and instruments in the United States, determination of monetary aggregates and interest rates, the financial impacts of Treasury operations, and the linkages from Federal Reserve actions to price level, employment, economic growth, and balance of payments objectives. Coverage of models of monetary economics (for example the Cagan money demand function, cash in advance models). The dynamics and real effects of inflation. Prerequisite: Economics 110D. Instructor: Leachman, Kimbrough, or Staff
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Explores origins and causes of differences in patterns of economic performance between ethnic and racial groups from a comparative perspective across the globe. Consideration of a variety of accounts for wide disparities in incidence of poverty and affluence across ascriptively differentiated groups, with particular attention to economic problems in ethnically or racially plural societies and use of various social policies to redress intergroup inequalities, including Malaysia's New Economic Policy, India's reservations system for scheduled castes, and affirmative action in U.S. and South Africa. Instructor: Darity
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Demand for and supply of labor, including human fertility, human capital, hours of work, and labor force participation. Effects of family structure, marriage laws, taxes and transfers (welfare, earned income tax credit) on labor supply and the distribution of income across families and individuals. Labor market discrimination, unions. Prerequisites: Economics 105D; and Statistics 103, 104, 113, 114, or Mathematics 135 or 136. Instructor: McElroy or Sloan
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Economic aspects of the production, distribution, and organization of health care services, such as measuring output, structure of markets, demand for services, pricing of services, cost of care, financing, mechanisms, and their impact on the relevant markets. Prerequisite: Econ 105D or PubPol 110 or 128. Instructor: Falba, Sloan or staff
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The structure and workings of financial markets. Topics include risk-return relationships, aspects of portfolio selection, the capital asset pricing model, the arbitrage pricing theory, fixed income analysis, and aspects of derivatives. Prerequisites: Economics 105D or Economics 172; and Statistics 103, 104, 113 or 114, or Mathematics 135 or 136. Instructor: Bollerslev, Rasiel, or staff
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Tools mastered in microeconomics, macroeconomics, calculus, algebra, and statistics applied to problems in financial economics and used to empirically investigate financial data using PCs. Application of asset pricing theories to control risks. Students working in teams develop their own portfolio management strategies for common stocks using various optimization techniques, tested with out-of-sample financial data. Prerequisites: Economics 105D; Economics 110D; and Statistics 103, 104, 113 114, or Mathematics 135 or 136. Instructor: Staff
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Same as Economics 158 but has a discussion section. Prerequisites: Economics 105D; Economics 110D; and Statistics 103, 104, 113 114, or Mathematics 135 or 136. Instructor: Staff
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An exploration of leading issues in economic development. Policy examining roles of education, health, gender, demographic change, and urbanization. Analysis of structural change including roles of agriculture, technical change, industrialization, and international trade. Eclectic empirical emphasis using cross national evidence, the historical record, and country case studies. A "research mind set" based in part on critical analyses of exemplary empirical research, emphasized throughout. Prerequisites: Economics 105D and 110D. Instructor: Kelley
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