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Analysis of the determinants of international capital movements, trade imbalances, and nominal and real exchange rates. Policy debates such as the foreign indebtedness of the United States, emerging market debt crises, exchange-rate-based inflation stabilization, and balance-of-payment crises. Prerequisites: Economics 172 or 105D and 110D. Instructor: Burnside or staff
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Explore seminal writings in the Austrian tradition within economics, with an emphasis on the work of the Nobel laureate economist and social theorist F.A. Hayek. Instructor: Caldwell
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Integrates micro and macro economics with topics in finance. Utility maximization within mean variance framework for portfolio analysis and capital asset pricing model. Corporate valuation and discounted cash flow analysis. Capital structure and principal-agent problem will lead into a discussion of the Efficient Markets Hypothesis and underlying assumptions. Market pricing, forecasting, and financial crises. Prerequisites: ECON 51 and STA 103 -or- STAT 113 -or- STAT 121 -or (both STAT 104 and STAT 114); ECON 105 -or- (MATH 103 and MATH 104) -or- MATH 105 -or- MATH 107. Cannot enroll if ECON 168 already completed. Instructor: Rasiel
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Historical evolution of cities from an economic perspective, considering the factors driving urban growth and decline at different points in history and the evolving organization of economic activity and social living within cities. Additional topics include dynamics of suburbanization and inner city decline, racial and ethnic segregation; urban industrial structure and spatial distribution of jobs; and impact of metropolitan political structure on urban sprawl and provision of public goods. Economics 105D required; Economics 139D (Econometrics) strongly recommended. Instructor: Bayer
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A qualitative and quantitative introduction to economic analysis of legal issues and legal reasoning. Case studies in accident law, product liability, and the value of life. Other topics include contracts, property, affirmative action, civil procedure, and the economics of criminal behavior. Some models examined include a calculus-based approach. Prerequisite: Economics 105D. Instructor: Graham, Knoeber, or staff
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Major corporate decisions from the perspective of the firm with an emphasis on the interaction of the firm with financial markets: quantitative project evaluation for investment, choice between borrowing and issuing stock, dividend policy, organizational form (for example, mergers and acquisitions). Introduction to financial markets: asset pricing, issuing stocks, analyzing financial performance using relative value tools, and options. Prerequisites: Economics 172 or Economics 105D and Economics 139D. Instructor: Fullenkamp
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The accounting model of the firm, transaction analysis, the use of accounting information by management. Topics include procedures to process accounting data, income determination, financial statement analysis, cost behavior, budgeting, and short-run decisions. The construction and interpretation of corporate financial reports. How a firm's performance is presented in the income statement, and how different revenue and expense recognition practices affect this performance measure. Does not count for economics major or minor requirements. Instructor: Skender
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Problems of liability valuation and the related issues of income determination from the perspective of the financial analyst. Studies the assessment of past and future performance with an introduction to equity valuation. Accounting and reporting problems of complex corporate structures. Use of accounting information for internal purposes for planning and control. Prerequisites: Economics 83 or 182. Instructor: Skender
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Overview of choices countries make structuring health care delivery, financing systems, cost effectiveness and cost benefit analysis. Hospitals, physicians and pharmaceuticals in low/middle income countries. Instructor: Sloan
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Application of economic methods to examine key emerging issues in global health, with focus on health disparities. Emphasis on using economic models to better understand global health challenges and using econometric methods to empirically test hypotheses that seek to explain global health disparities. Discuss measurement of health and data quality. Explores individual, family and society-level determinants of health; impact of health on economic and social prosperity; demand and supply of health care. Discuss policy implications in each case. Prerequisites: Economics 105D and 139D; or Public Policy 128D and Statistics 103 or 114; or consent of the instructor. Instructor: Thomas
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