Introduction to Economic Analysis
Fall 2020
Jeffrey Parker, 91ÁÔÆæ
Assignments
Cases of the Day
- September 2: Trust in Economic Transactions
- September 4: Dynamics of Oil Prices
- September 11: Elasticity of Demand for Higher Education
- September 14: Counterintuitive Price Behavior of Seasonal Goods
- September 18: Measuring Utility
- September 21: British Columbia's Carbon Tax
- September 25 & 28: Costs and Competition in Dairy Farms
- October 2: Washington State Sales Tax
- October 7: New York City Ice Trust
- October 9: Price Discrimination in Higher Education
- October 12: The Global Lysine Price-Fixing Conspiracy of 1992-95
- October 16: Dairy Farms from the Input Side
- October 19: Education Premium in Wages
- October 26: The Grand Banks Fishery
- October 30: Appropriability and Incentives for Innovation
- November 2: Okun's Leaky Bucket
- November 4: The Great Depression
- November 9: Macroeconomics and Happiness
- November 11: Information Technology and Productivity Growth
- November 13: Mortgage-Backed Securities and the Allocation of Risk
- November 16: Unemployment in Slovakia
- November 20: Pandemic and Aggregate Demand and Supply
- November 30: Monetary Policy and Disinflation in 1979-83
- December 4: Monetary and Fiscal Policy in 2008-10
Homework Assignments
- September 9: Problem Set #1
- September 16: Problem Set #2
- September 23: Problem Set #3
- October 14: Problem Set #5
- October 21: Economic Naturalist Assignment
- October 28: Problem Set #6 (MS Word table)
- Not turned in: Problems to prepare for midterm
- November 18: Problem Set #7
- December 2: Problem Set #8