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3.00 Credits
Topics include theory of consumer choice, demand, uncertainty, competitive and imperfectly competitive firms, factor markets, producer theory, and general equilibrium. Intended for master's students. Prerequisites: Intermediate microeconomics and multivariate calculus necessary. Matrix algebra and differential equations useful. Instructor: Becker, Kranton, or Nechyba
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Cooperative and noncooperative game theory with applications to trading, imperfect competition, cost allocation, and voting. Prerequisite: Economics 105D. Instructor: Graham
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3.00 Credits
Cooperative and non-cooperative game theory with applications to trading, imperfect competition, cost allocation, and voting. Extensive use of quantitative models requiring familiarity with multivariate calculus, optimization, and probability theory. Prerequisite: Economics 105D. Instructor: Graham
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3.00 Credits
Economic functions of families including home production gains from marriage, the demand for children, marriage and divorce, child support and alimony, labor supplies of women and men, the distribution of resources within families ('rotten kid theorems' and cooperative and noncooperative games). Applications to marriage and divorce law, day care, United States welfare policy, mortality, and farm efficiency in developing nations. Research project required. Prerequisite: Economics 105D; Economics139D; and Statistics 101, 103, 104, 112, 113 or 114, or Mathematics 135 or 136. Instructor: McElroy
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3.00 Credits
Explorations of eighteenth-century topics with a modern counterpart, chiefly (a) self-interest, liberal society, and economic incentive; and (b) the passions, sociality, civic virtue, common moral sensibilities, and the formation of taste and opinion. Original texts: for example, Bacon, Newton, Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Hutcheson, Hume, Smith, Hogarth, Burke, Cato's Letters, Federalist Papers, Jane Austen. Stress on integrating economic and political science perspectives. Open only to seniors majoring in either political science or economics. Not open to students who have had Economics 146. Pre-requisites: Economics 105D; and Economics 110D. Instructors: De Marchi and Grant
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3.00 Credits
Survey of macroeconomic theory and analysis of policies designed to reduce unemployment, stimulate economic growth, and stabilize prices. Conventional monetary and fiscal instruments, employment policies, and new policies designed to combat inflation. Instructor: Staff
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3.00 Credits
Empirical research in macroeconomics and international finance, providing students with a series of econometric tools for empirical analysis of time-series and an introduction to the current empirical research in macroeconomics, international finance, and forecasting. Small project and simple empirical research required. Prerequisites: Satisfactory performance (as judged by the instructor) in Econometrics (Economics 139D) plus a course in Linear Algebra or consent of the instructor. A course in macroeconomics (Economics 110D) is very useful but not strictly enforced. Instructor: Rossi
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3.00 Credits
The dynamism of the early modern world with a focus on Europe's recovery and expansion during the "long sixteenth century;" special attention to the relationship of population structures to the economy, agrarian expansion and the world of the village; capitalist trade and industry; the "crisis of the seventeenth century;" family and household structures; the aristocracy; and the structure of life at court, in the cities and countryside. Instructor: Robisheaux
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the basic concepts of mathematical finance. Topics include modeling security price behavior, Brownian and geometric Brownian motion, mean variance analysis and the efficient frontier, expected utility maximization, Ito's formula and stochastic differential equations, the Black-Scholes equation and option pricing formula. Prerequisites: Mathematics 103, 104, 135 or equivalent, or consent of instructor. Instructor: Staff
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3.00 Credits
Creative industries (especially the arts, entertainment) often distinguished by peculiarities of product (for example, non-durable), by special nature of financing and contracting (for example, option contracts), and by challenges they present to conventional analysis of pricing and consumption. Research report required. (Taught only in the Duke-in-Venice Program.) Similar to Economics 130S but intended for M.A. students. Instructor: De Marchi
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