Courses

• CAS EC 201: Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis
  Determination of commodity prices and factor prices under the differing market conditions of competition and monopoly.
• CAS EC 202: Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis
  Determination of aggregate income and employment. Analysis of fiscal and monetary policy. Inflation and incomes policy. Problems of the open economy.
• CAS EC 203: Empirical Economics 1
  Statistical techniques are presented and applied to a variety of economics problems. Extensive use of the statistical software package STATA.
• CAS EC 204: Empirical Economics 2
  Builds on the material in CAS EC 203, developing more complex statistical techniques and applications.
• CAS EC 303: Empirical Economic Analysis 1
  Statistical techniques are presented and applied to a variety of economics problems. Extensive use of the statistical software package STATA. This is a more theoretically advanced version of CAS EC 203.
• CAS EC 304: Empirical Economic Analysis 2
  Builds on the material covered in CAS EC 303, developing more complex statistical techniques and applications. This is a more theoretically advanced version of CAS EC 204.
• CAS EC 320: Economics of Less-Developed Regions
  Theoretical and empirical examination of the structural changes associated with the process of economic development; special reference to poor regions and countries; rigorous analysis of criteria for policy judgments in developing planning and programming.
• CAS EC 323: Behavioral Economics
  Introduction to a new field in economics that challenges the traditional model of rational decision-making and uses research in psychology to construct alternative models. Covers the theory of choice under certainty, uncertainty, and temptation; biases in judgment; social preferences.
• CAS EC 325: The Economics of Poverty and Discrimination in the United States
  Examines who is poor in the United States and how the evidence of poverty has changed over time. Various economic theories for the causes of poverty and discrimination are presented for examination and discussion.
• CAS EC 332: Market Structure and Economic Performance
  Structure of the American economy. The theory of imperfect competition. Topics include firm concentration and conglomeration, consumer ignorance and market failure, and advertising and technological change as part of market performance.
• CAS EC 333: Market Organization and Public Policy
  Discussion of selected markets determined by the instructor. Introduction to antitrust and regulatory policy.
• CAS EC 337: Economic Analysis of Legal Issues
  Economic analysis of current important legal issues. Contributions of economics to analysis of contracts, torts property, and crime. Effects of property rights on allocation of resources and distribution of income. Market and nonmarket schemes of regulating the environment.
• CAS EC 341: Monetary and Banking Institutions
  Survey of commercial and central banking institutions. Examination of macro relations between financial organizations and principal objectives of stabilization policy.
• CAS EC 342: Monetary and Banking Theory
  After a brief survey of the development of modern monetary theory, concentration on selected theoretical aspects of monetary economics and financial organization covered in CAS EC 341. Additional emphasis on capital theory and macroeconomic models. Research paper required.
• CAS EC 355: Economics of the Workplace and Public Policy
  Analysis of economic theories of human resources management and labor relations as they relate to wage determination, human capital investment, and labor productivity. Analyzes public policies toward unions, collective bargaining, and workplace regulation using historical materials and contemporary cases.
• CAS EC 356: Economics of the Labor Market
  Application of current theories of labor supply and demand, wages, education and experience, immigration, labor efficiency, discrimination, and unemployment. Appraisal of the effects of government policies on labor markets.
• CAS EC 363: Race and the Development of the American Economy: A Global Perspective
  (Meets with CAS AA 363.) Surveys the economic history of African Americans within the context of the development of the American and global economies. Topics include the economics of slavery; race and industrialization; the Great Migration; anti-discrimination legislation; and the historical origins of contemporary racial inequalities.
• CAS EC 365: Economic Institutions in Historical Perspective
  Historical development and role of institutions underlying market economies. Topics include contract enforcement and trading institutions, financial institutions, property rights in land, environmental resources such as water management and fisheries, economic infrastructure, regulation of labor, and capital markets.
• CAS EC 367: Economics of the Public Sector
  Basic principles of public finance; consideration of classical and modern attitudes toward government revenues and expenditures. Survey of problems related to public debt and budget making. Evaluation of fiscal policy as an instrument of control.
• CAS EC 368: Contemp E Asian
  This course description is currently under construction.

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