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3.00 Credits
Economic analysis of development of urban areas within the system of cities; central place theory and general equilibrium models of interregional economic activity emphasizing central place systems, spatial interaction and stochastic processes; internal development of the city focusing on housing and land use patterns, transportation and urban form.
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3.00 Credits
Covers economic theory and research methods needed to understand happenings in the regional and community economy and how local and non-local decisions influence local economic change. Offered fall semester only. May also be offered as APEC 8320. Preq: APEC 4120 or APEC 6120 or CRD 4120 or CRD 6120.
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3.00 Credits
Theoretical and econometric analysis of education including such topics as human capital theory, pricing and competition in higher education, public financing and provision of education, cost/benefit analyses of education reforms such as accountability, school finance equalization and school choice. Includes discussion and research on current topics in the economics of education. Preq: APEC 8060 or ECON 8060; or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Theory of free trade from Ricardo to the present; theory and application of optimal and second-best tariffs; recent empirical testing of trade and tariff theory. May also be offered as APEC 8400. Preq: ECON 3140; and either APEC 8020 or ECON 8020; or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Financial economics of decision making in a multinational environment featuring autonomous governments and multiple currencies. Typical topics include the macroeconomic problems of unemployment and inflation in an international economy, management of exchange rate risk, credit risk, political risk and taxation. May also be offered as APEC 8410. Preq: ECON 3150.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers the economics of markets and industries, particularly when firms strategically interact with each other and with consumers. The focus is to analyze why imperfect competition arises and determine how deviations from characteristics of perfect competition affect the structure, conduct and overall performance of actual markets. Preq: ECON 8230 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces central concepts in game theory, emphasizing economic problems involving strategic behavior by consumers, firms and governments. Covers static and dynamic games, with both complete and incomplete information. Specific topics may include oligopoly, bargaining, auction theory, mechanism design, repeated games and information transmission.
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3.00 Credits
Study of modern theory of corporate finance. Includes basic theories of efficient markets, portfolio selection, capital asset pricing, option pricing and agency costs. May also be offered as APEC 8550.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the advanced techniques associated with analyzing large data sets frequently used in economic analysis. Topics include data collection and web scraping techniques, data organization, supervised segmentation, support vector machines, and linear discriminant analysis.
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3.00 Credits
This course emphasizes the use and implementation of modern data analysis to examine and analyze data sets frequently encountered in business and economics. Topics include a review of linear regression models and hypothesis testing. Advanced topics include ridge regressions, shrinkage methods, lasso regressions, principal components, partial least squares, polynomial regressions, and tree based methods, including random forests. Students apply these techniques to economic applications where supervised and unsupervised machine learning may be appropriate. Preq: ECON 8600.
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