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ECON 111 - AP/OTH CREDIT IN MICROECONOMICS Credits: Hours Variable This course provides credit for students who have successfully completed approved examinations, such as Advanced Placement exams or for students with transfer credit. This credit counts toward the total credit hours required for graduation. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Economics
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ECON 112 - AP/OTH CREDIT IN MACROECONOMICS Credits: Hours Variable This course provides credit for students who have successfully completed approved examinations, such as Advanced Placement exams or for students with transfer credit. This credit counts toward the total credit hours required for graduation. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Economics
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ECON 120 - AN INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL ECONOMY Credits: 3 Economics 120 is a course primarily for students who do not plan to major in economics, but are interested in learning some fundamental economic concepts and applying these concepts to some contemporary problems such as trade policy, health economics, poverty and welfare, race and discrimination. Economics 120 is not a substitute for Economics 211, but is open to economics majors who are interested in policy but does not count toward an economics major. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Economics
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ECON 211 - PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS Credits: 3 Introduction to the nature of economics. Includes price systems, household decisions, cost and supply, marginal productivity and capital theory, industrial organization and control, economic efficiency, externalities, and public goods. Required for economics and mathematical economic analysis majors. Students (both majors and non-majors) enrolled at Rice who wish to transfer this course from another institution must pass a departmental qualifying examination. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Economics
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ECON 250 - FOUNDATIONS OF PUBLIC SECTOR ECONOMICS Credits: 3 The prime focus of the course is upon the government budget including taxes, expenditures, debt finance as well as government-owned enterprises. Effects of the budget on income distribution, efficiency and economic growth are also considered. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Economics
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ECON 340 - INTRODUCTION TO GAME THEORY Credits: 3 Game theory is a way of thinking about strategic situations. Ideas such as dominance, Nash equilibrium, evolutionary stability, backward induction, commitment, credibility, asymmetric information, adverse selection, and signaling are discussed and applied to games played in class and to examples drawn from economics, politics, the movies, and elsewhere. Some familiarity with the principles of microeconomics (e.g. ECON 211) is desirable, but not essential. No prior knowledge of game theory is assumed. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Economics
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ECON 348 - ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN Credits: 3 An introduction to the analysis, design, and management of organizations with an emphasis on incentives and information. Principles from economics, political science, and game theory will be applied to problems in project and team management, in organizational computing, and in allocating and pricing shared facilities. Cross-list: POLI 348. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Economics
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ECON 355 - FINANCIAL MARKETS Credits: 3 Study the principles of U.S. and international equity and debt markets, and the interactions between such markets and various countries' monetary and exchange rate policies. The role of financial markets and institutions in the allocation and transfer of credit and risk is highlighted, and various existing and suggested regulatory frameworks are discussed. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Economics
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ECON 370 - MICROECONOMIC THEORY Credits: 3 Intermediate level analysis of markets, firms, households, income distribution, and general equilibrium. Required for economics and mathematical economic analysis majors. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Economics
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ECON 375 - MACROECONOMIC THEORY Credits: 3 Micro-foundations of macroeconomic theory. Required for economics and mathematical economic analysis majors. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Economics
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ECON 382 - PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS Credits: 3 Course URL: http://statistics.rice.edu/courses.cfm Probability and the central concepts and methods of statistics including probability distributions, expectation, estimation, hypothesis testing, sampling distributions, linear models. Section 1 presents the general use in multiple disciplines; section 2 focuses on problem sets and examples in civil and environmental engineering. Cross-list: STAT 310. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Economics
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ECON 400 - ECONOMETRICS Credits: 3 Survey of estimation and forecasting models. Includes multiple regression time series analysis. A good understanding of linear algebra is highly desirable. Required for mathematical economic analysis majors. Cross-list: STAT 400. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Economics
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ECON 403 - SENIOR INDEPENDENT RESEARCH Credits: 3 Independent research project for seniors on an approved topic of their choice. Instructor permission required College: School of Social Sciences Department: Economics
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ECON 404 - SENIOR INDEPENDENT RESEARCH Credits: 3 Independent research project for seniors on an approved topic of their choice. Instructor permission required College: School of Social Sciences Department: Economics
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ECON 415 - LABOR ECONOMICS Credits: 3 This course studies empirical evidence and theories relating to several features of labor markets. Topics covered may include fertility, health, criminal behavior, labor force participation, hours of work, education and training, geographical and inter-firm labor mobility, static and dynamic labor demand, unions, discrimination, government intervention in labor markets, and "hedonic" equilibria in labor markets. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Economics
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ECON 420 - INTERNATIONAL TRADE Credits: 3 Study of the economic relationships between countries. Includes trade theory, tariffs and other trade restrictions, international finance, trade and development, and current policy issues. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Economics
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ECON 421 - INTERNATIONAL FINANCE Credits: 3 Analysis of foreign exchange and international capital markets and linkages between exchange rates, interest rates, and prices. Includes an overview of historical and institutional developments, and current policy issues. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Economics
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ECON 435 - INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION Credits: 3 Study of market structure, concentration, barriers to entry, and oligopoly pricing. Includes the application of micro theory to industry problems. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Economics
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ECON 436 - REGULATION Credits: 3 Analysis of governmental regulatory activities under antitrust laws and in such regulated industries as communications, energy, and transportation. Recommended prerequisite(s): ECON 435. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Economics
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ECON 437 - ENERGY ECONOMICS Credits: 3 Discussion of key aspects in the supply and demand of energy. Topics include optimal extraction of depletable resources, transportation, storage, end-use and efficiency, and the relationship between economic activity, energy, and the environment. Crosslisted with ENST 437. Cross-list: ENST 437. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Economics
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ECON 438 - BUSINESS, LAW AND ECONOMICS Credits: 3 Exploration of the area of the law most applicable to business using economic tools. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Economics
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ECON 439 - TORTS, PROPERTY, AND CONTRACTS Credits: 3 The course will address the role of economics in understanding the legal system, in particular, understanding how the law allocates entitlements and risk in property, tort and contract law. This course is primarily intended for students who are considering attending law school and uses instruction methods appropriate for that goal. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Economics
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ECON 440 - ADVANCED GAME THEORY Credits: 3 Choice under uncertainty and Von Neumann Morgenstern utility; games in normal form: mixed strategies, Nash equilibrium (existence and stability); games in extensive form: backward induction and other equilibrium refinements; games with incomplete information: Bayesian Nash equilibrium, application to signaling; cooperative games: the coalitional form, coalition formation and core stability, applications to exchange and bilateral Groves mechanisms. Recommended prerequisite(s): Familiarity with mathematical arguments and probability theory. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Economics
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ECON 445 - MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS Credits: 3 Application of economics to decision making within the firm. Includes organization theory and problems of control. A student may not receive credit for this course and ECON 348/POLI 348. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Economics
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ECON 446 - APPLIED ECONOMETRICS Credits: 3 Applied econometrics methods; focus will be on the application of econometrics and complementary measurement methodologies to modeling, forecasting, and hypothesis testing. Applications will include firm decision-making, testing for discrimination in the workplace, competition policy, portfolio management, and macroeconomic forecasting. Some knowledge of calculus is required. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Economics
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