| source City University of New York (X) |
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department Economics (X) |
The theory of pricing and distribution under various marketing conditions. Government intervention in the market. Comparison of free enterprise with alternative, existing economic systems.
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A study of the determinants of aggregate levels of production, employment, and prices. Impact of government spending, taxation, and monetary policy on the level of unemployment and the rate of inflation. Emphasis on the institutional framework within which monetary policy operates.
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This course examines the historic and political backgrounds of economic thought, the concepts and tools of micro-economics, the measurements and policies of macro-economics, their limitations and the evolution of current economic discourses. This course will view issues and methodologies through the lens of American economic development, and selected world economic experience.
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Intensive examination of the theories of utility and demand, production theory, and cost functions in the short and long run, culminating in the price-output models of perfect competition and monopoly. Problems and applications are heavily used to acquaint students with the implications of the theoretical concepts.
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Study of monopoly and competition in U.S. industrial and financial markets. Topics include the sources of monopoly power, the impact of monopoly on economic efficiency, and the effectiveness of government policies to maintain competition.
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The economic foundations of accounting, production, marketing, and business policy. Designed for students of economics and of the above subjects who wish to strengthen their theoretical and practical knowledge of these areas. Case studies are used to give students a sense of the practical uses of economic theory.
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This course is structured to provide the student with a broad appreciation of the economic constraints and opportunities of environmentally sustainable development, ecological preservation and the formulation of attendant policies by the federal and local governments. In addition the course will examine the role of regulation of the private, financial, utility, and housing sectors in obtaining a stable environment. This course will view corporate and private financial operations and regulation through the lens of their consequences for environmentally sustainable development. Students will be expected to discuss the nature of evolving environmental economics and ecological regulation through the present time in relation to the emerging measurements of the natural sciences concerning the consequences of economic activity and the needs of private enterprise for economic development. It will be geared to students with an adequate background in economics and an appreciation of the natural sciences, and is designed to further their skills and knowledge in integrating environmental economics into their portfolio of analytical and communication skills.
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A general analysis of the factors determining income, employment, price levels, and interest rates in developed economies. Particular emphasis will be placed on policy problems.
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A survey of the nature of money, its role in economic life, and the ability of the commercial banking system to expand and contract the money supply. Also covered are the functions and powers of the Federal Reserve System and their impact upon the level of economic activity. This leads to an introduction to monetary theory and an examination of monetary policy as conducted in the United States.
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This course covers theories of international trade, international capital and labor movements, transfer pricing issues in transnational corporations, protection of domestic industries with tariffs and non-tariff trade barriers, balance of payments, foreign exchange markets, international and regional trade organizations, trade disputes, and U.S. foreign trade policies.
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A study of the reasons for an impact of government regulation on economic activity. Emphasis is placed on the relative merits of different regulatory mechanisms and on the attendant deviations from optimal or anticipated performance. Numerous regulatory cases are examined.
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A study of the interface between public institutions, including the American legal system, and economic activity. Includes discussion of selected topics dealing with basis and rationale of government stimulus in providing the preconditions for a well-functioning economy.
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An analysis of the causes and costs of free-rider behavior and such market failures as pollution, congestion, and discrimination. Governmental and private solutions to these problems are evaluated. Other topics include tax incidence theory, the effect of taxes on allocative efficiency, the analysis of specific real-world taxes, and fiscal federalism.
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Discussion of the economic reasons for the growth and decline of cities and the economic underpinning of location decisions of people and firms. Analysis of urban fiscal problems, environmental problems, and the problems of poverty, segregation, and discrimination. Policy options with respect to housing, transportation, and public policy are reviewed.
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This course examines the spatial distribution of economic activities and the bearing this has on the development problems of our urban and regional economies, resource utilization, and the structure of industries. It combines both spatial and environmental explanatory approaches and emphasizes that the location and character of economic activity are interdependent aspects of the economic landscape.
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Development of economic thought from mercantilism to the end of the nineteenth century, including the English classical doctrines and divergent schools of thought.
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This course examines the industrialization of the Western European and American economies during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with particular stress on the international economic aspects of this process. Topics include the changing composition of world trade, the integration of the underdeveloped nations into the international economy, economic imperialism and foreign investment.
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A survey covering such topics as human resource development, the allocation and compensation of labor, and the history of trade unionism in the United States.
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An examination of some of the more important issues and problems in the field of labor economics.
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Analytical treatment of the problems of economic growth and development. Emphasis on the interaction of economic theories and the realities of developing countries. Topics include alternative theories of growth, industrialization, capital formation and foreign investment, foreign trade and aid, income distribution, and foreign debt.
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The development of quantitative tools and their application to economic and financial models. Emphasis will be placed on multiple regression analysis and the application of regression techniques to problems in finance and economics.
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This course is concerned with practical forecasting in business and government. The application and theory of different forecasting techniques are discussed. These techniques are the judgmental forecast, extrapolation method, consensus survey, leading indicators, time series, and econometric models. Students will practice some of these techniques with the aid of the computer. Forecast assessment and error analysis are also included.
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This course provides students with a sound theoretical and practical knowledge of time series techniques that can be applied to the analysis and forecasting of macroeconomic variables and financial returns. Topics covered include unconditional modeling of financial returns, time series models, volatility and correlation modeling, and multivariate techniques.
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The topics covered are price and production decisions in imperfect competition and oligopoly, the theory of income distribution by factor share, simple intertemporal models of capital accumulation and interest, and an introduction to general equilibrium and welfare economics.
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