Description: This course will develop fundamental economic concepts in the context of the sports industry. Students will apply economic theory to various aspects of both collegiate and professional sports. Topics include (but are not limited to) wage discrimination in sports, alumni giving and collegiate athletics, academics and collegiate athletics, sports rights, and broadcasting, sports and gambling, salary caps, revenue sharing, insurance contracts, expansion, and stadium/arena financing.
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Location and Time: O'Neill Library 257 MW 03:00PM-04:15PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 38 / Total Seats: 38
Description: This course uses economic tools to explore decision-making and allocation of resources within the family. The impact of gender roles and differences will be examined historically in the US and across developed economies. Student participation will be an integral part of the course. During class, students will be required to evaluate data and relate it to the theoretic model covered. Student participation will also include two in-class oral presentations
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Location and Time: O'Neill Library 247 TuTh 09:00AM-10:15AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 38 / Total Seats: 39
Description: This course is an introduction to game theory. Game theory consists of a coherent set of concepts and analytical tools to examine interactive or strategic situations between people, that is, situations where the well being of one actor depends not only what s/he does but also on what others do. Hence in deciding how best to act, each person needs to consider how others are likely to act as well. Game theory has become a widely used tool of analysis in a wide range of disciplines, including economics, business, political science, law and international relations.
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Location and Time: 245 Beacon Street Room 215 TuTh 09:00AM-10:15AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 30 / Total Seats: 30
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Location and Time: O'Neill Library 257 MW 04:30PM-05:45PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 36 / Total Seats: 39
Description: We apply insights from game theory to explain human social behavior, focusing on novel applications which have heretofore been the realm of psychologists and philosophers--for example, why people speak indirectly, in what sense beauty is socially constructed, and where our moral intuitions come from--and eschewing traditional economic applications such as industrial organization or auctions.
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Location and Time: Mcguinn Hall 121 MW 04:30PM-05:45PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 52 / Total Seats: 60
Description: The course will provide both a theoretical and empirical analysis of economic inequality. This will include analysis and discussion of recent trends in inequality and an examination of the economic causes and consequences of inequality. Specific attention will be paid to the difference between inequality of economic outcomes (e.g., employment status, earnings, and occupation) and inequality of economic opportunity. The course will also touch on economic policy, including discussions of programs designed to combat inequality of outcomes, like welfare and food stamps, as well as those designed to combat inequality of opportunity, like Head Start.
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Location and Time: Fulton Hall 511 (Auditorium) MW 01:30PM-02:45PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 126 / Total Seats: 120
Description: This course covers topics such as the significance and multiple functions of money in the economy, the behavior of interest rates, the banking system, financial markets, and the management of financial institutions. This course further covers the Federal Reserve System and the conduct of monetary policy, different asset classes, the foreign exchange market, and the international financial system. There is a heavy emphasis on use of market data and the analysis of economic releases--earnings reports, government policy statements, etc.--to provide a comprehensive introduction to the subject. Moreover, through an extensive use of Bloomberg in this class students learn how to access and analyze data and economic releases to provide a window into how modern practitioners in the discipline analyze financial markets. Prerequisites: macro theory and econometrics
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Location and Time: O'Neill Library 257 TuTh 01:30PM-02:45PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 19 / Total Seats: 39
Description: This course will introduce students to the methodology of labor economics from both institutional and neoclassical perspectives. The principal emphasis will be on neoclassical theory and empirical work dealing with the supply and demand for labor; the operation of the labor market; the determination of wages; and the impact of trade unions and collective bargaining. Special emphasis will be placed on applications of theory and empirical findings to policy questions. This course requires research writing.
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Location and Time: O'Neill Library 253 MW 09:00AM-10:15AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 33 / Total Seats: 39
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Location and Time: Gasson Hall 307 TuTh 09:00AM-10:15AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 22 / Total Seats: 24
Description: Enrollment limited; significant writing/research component. This is a seminar on the economic analysis of current microeconomic public policy issues. During the first half of the course, students will read and discuss articles on selected topics and prepare first drafts of papers on topics of their choice. The second half of the course will be run like a professional economics conference. Students will read and critique others' papers, present their drafts to the class, and revise their papers on the basis of the comments received.
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Location and Time: O'Neill Library 248 TuTh 01:30PM-02:45PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 21 / Total Seats: 19
Description: This is a course in the microeconomics of the public sector. We will discuss the rationale for the government's role in a market economy, major expenditure programs, and the theory and structure of the tax system. The focus will be on the federal (as opposed to state and local) government's expenditure and tax programs, with special attention given to topics of current concern.
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Location and Time: Gasson Hall 209 TuTh 12:00 Noon-01:15PM
Time Category: Afternoon
Used Seats: 24 / Total Seats: 24
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Location and Time: Gasson Hall 309 MW 03:00PM-04:15PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 39 / Total Seats: 39
Description: This course studies markets where customers and sellers cannot instantaneously meet such as labor markets, taxi markets and shipping markets. The course will make extensive use of micro data from such markets in order to study them, as well as economic theory. We also examine what happens when platforms emerge to assist in the matching process, such as Uber/Lyft and Airbnb. The course will use a mixture of slides and a couple of case studies.
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Location and Time: 245 Beacon Street Room 125A MW 10:30AM-11:45AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 25 / Total Seats: 24
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Location and Time: Gasson Hall 203 MW 03:00PM-04:15PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 24 / Total Seats: 24
Professors: (BC Email Needed)
Location and Time: 245 Beacon Street Room 125A MW 12:00 Noon-01:15PM
Time Category: Afternoon
Used Seats: 26 / Total Seats: 24