8 courses with the subject ECON, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
ECON 212Introduction to Macroeconomics3
Elementary macroeconomic analysis dealing with factors that determine the general level of prices, production, employment, income and consumption in the economy as a whole, with special reference to the United States and other market economies. Such topics as inflation, recession, and public policies used to combat them are studied. Problems of unemployment and economic problems of the minority population will also be discussed.
Elementary analysis of markets, markets structures, consumer demand, and market price determination. Other topics include production and cost analysis, output and price determination by firms, market failures, of the government intervention and regulations, and their impact on the functioning of markets. Applications to poverty, international trade, and income distribution will be covered.
This course considers in depth the determination of prices of commodities, and factors of production. The course also discusses optimal resource allocation by firms, households, and other microeconomic entities. Such topics as utility and output maximization, cost minimization, market structures and government regulations and their impact on economic decision making are studied.
Discussions of the theories of aggregate income and employment. Emphasis is on the analysis of fiscal and monetary policies, and their implications for the rate of growth, output, employment, and the price level.
An introduction to applications of the methods of statistical inference and decision theory to the analysis of problems in economics, finance, accounting, marketing, and management. Methodological emphasis will be to show how the methods of summary descriptive measures, sampling procedures, hypothesis testing, the design of experiments, and elements of decision theory are applied to concepts from business management, economics, and general administration.
Introductory course in the analysis of international resource flows, including commodities and factors of production. The topics of interest include commercial policies, tariffs, transportation, balance of payments, microeconomic implications of balance of payments, exchange rates, multinational companies, and multilateral international institutions.
This course is a continuation of Business and Economics Statistics I (ECON 316). It will cover additional topics on the applications of statistical techniques in the analysis of business, economic, and other administrative kinds of decision making. Topics of interest include analysis of variance, X2 tests, quality control, extensions of simple and multiple linear regression, and their applications to decision analysis.
This course studies applications of the methods of regression analysis, and time series forecasting techniques in the estimation of economic and decision making parameters, and economic forecasting. Emphasis will be on decision making applications such as, cost estimation and forecasting of demand and supply, production functions, and macroeconomic variables.
