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  • ECONOMICS 304: Econometrics

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    The subject of this course, broadly speaking, is regression analysis. After a brief review of the simple linear model , the course develops the theoretical framework for the multivariate linear model. Various special topics are studied while students complete individual research projects. Prerequisites: ECON 202 and ECON 300 or ECON 301. ( Offered each semester)
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  • ECONOMICS 305: Political Economy

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    This course analyzes alternative ways of understanding economics and political economy. It investigates debates on economic theory and discourse within a broad context of critical issues in the foundations and development of the social sciences. Theoretical foundations of major schools of economic thought ( e.g., neoclassical, Keynesian, Marxist) are explored, as well as questions of ideology and method in economic thought. Feminist economics is introduced. Prerequisites: ECON 300 and ECON 301, or permission of the instructor. ( Offered each semester)
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  • ECONOMICS 306: Industrial Organization

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    The course is intended to demonstrate how microeconomic theory applies to industrial markets. An examination and evaluation of the theoretical predictions of price theory is considered in a real world context, with surveys of recent empirical evidence. Such areas as theories of motivation of the firm, identification and measurement of monopoly power, economies of firm size, concentration (definition, measurement, and effects), and oligopolistic behavior are examined. Prerequisite: ECON 301. (Waller, offered occasionally)
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  • ECONOMICS 307: Mathematical Economics

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    This course has two objectives. First, to acquaint the student with the various mathematical tools widely used in theoretical economics today. These tools include simple linear algebra, matrix algebra, and differential calculus. Second, to utilize these tools to demonstrate and examine the fundamental concepts underlying microeconomic and macroeconomic theory. Prerequisites: ECON 300 and ECON 301. (Frishman, offered alternate years)
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  • ECONOMICS 308: Corporation Finance

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    This course deals with the strategic decision-making process relative to three main areas: capital budgeting; capital structure; and working capital management. One important role a financial manager plays is to create value for the shareholder within legal and ethical constraints in a rapidly changing enterprise environment. Topics include the time value of money, risk and return, security valuation, capital budgeting, cash and liquidity management, management of current liabilities, dividend policy, cost of capital, capital structure policy and the evaluation of alternative methods of financing. Prerequisites: ECON 200, ECON 301 ( Offered annually)
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  • ECONOMICS 309: Portfolio AnalysisThis

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    course addresses the principles and practice of managing investment portfolios. It presumes an understanding of the main forms of financial instruments and markets, as well as a familiarity with basic financial models and mathematics. Prerequisites: ECON 218 and ECON 301, or permission of instructor. ( Offered occasionally)
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  • ECONOMICS 310: Economics and Gender

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    This course focuses on attempts to integrate gender into economic analysis. The course includes discussion of the economics of the family, household production and the allocation of time, gender and the labor supply, and gender differences in occupation and earnings. A discussion of gender in economic methodology and the history of economic thought provides the context for these issues. Prerequisite: ECON 301 or ECON 305. (Waller, offered alternate years)
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  • ECONOMICS 311: Economics of Immigration

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    The immigration issue is such a hot political topic that it is often hard to think about it analytically, but such an approach is essential if we are to adopt wise and appropriate policies. In this course we examine the international movement of people using the tools of economic analysis. We consider both the causes and the consequences of international migration, focusing on contemporary USA but using both historical experiences and those of other countries to help inform our understanding. Prerequisite: ECON 301. (J. McKinney, Fall, offered alternate years)
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  • ECONOMICS 312: British Economic History

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    This course examines the processes responsible for the Industrial Revolution, and British world economic supremacy and later decline in the nineteenth century. We apply economic theories and concepts to understand these issues in the context of phenomena such as the demographic transition, sectoral and technological change, the expansion of international trade, including the slave trade, and the growth of international finance. We read contemporary accounts that record observers' impressions of the changes they saw taking place in Britain from the late seventeenth century to WWII. Prerequisites: Econ 300 and 301. (Cooper, offered alternate years)
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  • ECONOMICS 315: Managerial Economics

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    This course provides students with an applied competence in utilizing basic microeconomic principles, methodologies, and techniques to solve managerial problems relating to costs, prices, revenues, profits and competitive strategies. Using managerial economic techniques, four basic areas of finance are addressed : risk analysis, production analysis, pricing analysis and capital budgeting. This course further explores how economic and financial forces affect a firm's organizational architecture relative to both its internal and external environment, as well as within a global context. Prerequisite: Econ 301. (Offered annually)
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