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Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2000
Economics (ECON)

Rice Course Schedule as of 03/24/2000. This schedule is maintained by the Office of the Registrar (reg@rice.edu).

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ECON   211 PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS I                Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Nature of economics; the price system; household decisions; cost and
supply; marginal productivity and capital theory; industrial
organization and control; economic efficiency, externalities, and public
goods.
Enrollment is limited to 45.
A FOUNDATION COURSE.
001 TTH     01:00PM-02:15PM BB*116   Soligo, Ronald                 *CURRENT ENR: 0
002 TTH     09:25AM-10:40AM SH*305   Jayasuriya, Ruwan              *CURRENT ENR: 0
003 MWF     11:00AM-11:50AM SH*303   Linares-Garcia, Carlos         *CURRENT ENR: 0
004 MWF     01:00PM-01:50PM BB*102   Trigg, Hugh                    *CURRENT ENR: 0

ECON   212 PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS II               Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Measurement and determination of national income; money, banking, and
fiscal policy; business cycles, unemployment, and inflation;
international trade and balance of payments; other contemporary economic
problems.
Enrollment limited to 45.
Prereq- Econ 211.
A FOUNDATION COURSE.
001 TTH     09:25AM-10:40AM BB*102   Brown, Bryan                   *CURRENT ENR: 0
002 MWF     10:00AM-10:50AM SH*305   Peirce, David                  *CURRENT ENR: 0
003 MWF     11:00AM-11:50AM PL*212   Medlock, Kenneth               *CURRENT ENR: 0
004 TTH     10:50AM-12:05PM SH*307   Getachew, Lullit               *CURRENT ENR: 0
005 MWF     09:00AM-09:50AM BB*102   Peirce, David                  *CURRENT ENR: 0

ECON   355 MONEY AND BANKING                        Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Demand and supply of money and other financial assets.  American and
international institutional trends and reforms.
Prereq- Econ 211 and 212.
Enrollment limited to 45.
001 TTH     09:25AM-10:40AM SH*303   Smith, Gordon                  *CURRENT ENR: 0

ECON   370 MICROECONOMIC THEORY                     Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Intermediate level analysis of markets, firms, households, income
distribution, and general equilibrium.
Prereq- Econ 211.
001 MWF     10:00AM-10:50AM SH*309   Hasker, Kevin                  *CURRENT ENR: 0

ECON   375 MACROECONOMIC THEORY                     Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Intermediate level analysis of relationships between the levels of
income, employment, interest, investment, consumption, and government
spending.
Prereq- Econ 211, 212.
001 MWF     11:00AM-11:50AM SH*307   Barut, Yasar                   *CURRENT ENR: 0

ECON   382 ELEMENTS OF STAT METHODS                 Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
Basis concepts and techniques of probability and statistics.
Applications to economics, marketing, and finance.
Prereq- Econ 211 and Math 102.
Also offered as STAT 310.
001 TTH     01:00PM-02:15PM DH*1064  TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

ECON   403 SENIOR INDEPENDENT RESEARCH              Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
Independent research project for seniors on an approved topic of their
own choosing.
Prereq- permission of instructor.
001 TBA     TBA                      Smith, Gordon                  *CURRENT ENR: 0

ECON   404 SENIOR INDEPENDENT RESEARCH              Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
See Econ 403.
001 TBA     TBA                      Smith, Gordon                  *CURRENT ENR: 0

ECON   415 HUMAN RESOURCES, WAGES AND WELFARE       Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Study of labor markets and wage determination.  Special emphasis on
"investment in human capital" through education, training, and health
services.
Prereq- Econ 211.
Enrollment limited to 45.
001 TTH     10:50AM-12:05PM BB*116   Brown, James                   *CURRENT ENR: 0

ECON   416 ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE U.S.             Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Overview of U.S. economic history from the colonial period to World War
II.  Prereq- Econ 211 and Econ 370 or 372.
001 MWF     01:00PM-01:50PM BB*116   Hasker, Kevin                  *CURRENT ENR: 0

ECON   421 INTERNATIONAL FINANCE                    Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
Analysis of foreign exchange and international capital markets.
Linkages between exchange rates, interest rates, and prices.  Overview
of historical and institutional developments, and current policy issues.
Prereq- Econ 370, 375, Stat 280 or Econ 382.
Enrollment limited to 25.
001 MWF     11:00AM-11:50AM BB*116   Merz, Monika                   *CURRENT ENR: 0

ECON   437 ECONOMICS OF INFO, COMMON PROPERTY RESOU Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
The course addresses the economics of information, common property
resources and public goods.  The course will address such topics as
software piracy, the greenhouse effect, congestion, testing, affirmative
action and insurance.
Prereq- Econ 370 or 372.
Enrollment is limited to 45.
001 MWF     02:00PM-02:50PM BB*116   Brito, Dagobert                *CURRENT ENR: 0

ECON   439 ECONOMICS OF THE LAW II                  Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
The role of economics in understanding the legal system.  Applications
to financial markets, insurance, discrimination and constitutional
issues.
Prereq- Econ 211 and 370 or permission of the instructor;  Econ 438.
Enrollment limited to 45.
001 MWF     09:00AM-09:50AM BB*116   Brito, Dagobert                *CURRENT ENR: 0

ECON   440 ECONOMICS OF UNCERTAINTY                 Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
Decision making under uncertainty with applications to the choice of
financial assets, the operation of insurance markets, research in
markets with imperfect information and the microeconomic foundations of
macroeconomics.
Prereq- Econ 211, 212, and 372; Math 101, 102 and some familiarity with
probability theory as gained in Econ 382, Stat 310 or stat 381.
Enrollment limited to 25.
001 TTH     09:25AM-10:40AM BB*114   Hartley, Peter                 *CURRENT ENR: 0

ECON   445 MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS                     Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
Application of economics to decision making within the firm;
organization theory, cost, pricing, and problems of control.
Econ 212 desirable.
Prereq- Econ 211.
Enrollment limited to 45.
001 TTH     09:25AM-10:40AM BB*116   Sickles, Robin                 *CURRENT ENR: 0

ECON   448 CORPORATION FINANCE                      Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Financial analysis, planning, and control in modern corporations;
includes valuation, cost and allocation of capital, capital markets.
Prereq- Econ 211 and Acco 305.
001 MWF     11:00AM-11:50AM SH*309   Chang, Yoosoon                 *CURRENT ENR: 0

ECON   452 PRINCIPLES OF ISLAMIC ECONOMICS AND FINA Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
An analysis of the positive and normative contribution to economics and
finance of studying religious law in light of recent economic theory and
empirical findings.
Prereq- Econ 370 and 375.
Enrollment limited to 20.
001 TTH     01:00PM-02:15PM BB*114   El-Gamal, Mahmoud              *CURRENT ENR: 0

ECON   472 INTRODUCTION TO GAME THEORY              Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
Solution concepts for different games:  strategic form game, coalition
form game and extensive form game.  Elementary application to economics
and political science.
Enrollment limited to 45.
001 MWF     10:00AM-10:50AM BB*116   Chae, Suchan                   *CURRENT ENR: 0

ECON   475 INTEGER & COMB. OPTIMIZATION             Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Modeling and solving optimization problems with discrete components,
graphs and networks; network flow problems; minimum spanning trees;
basic polyhedral theory; the knapsack problem; the plant location
problem; the set packing problem; computational complexity, branch and
bound; cutting planes; Lagrangian relaxation and Bender's decomposition.
Prereq- Caam 471.
Also offered as Caam 475.
001 MWF     10:00AM-10:50AM DH*1042  Cook, William                  *CURRENT ENR: 0

ECON   482 DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE: A MICROECONOMIC AP Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
An examination of various theories of distributive justice, analyzed
from the perspective of microeconomic theory. Topics covered include
social contract doctrines, aggregation of preferences and voting,
theories of cooperative behavior and coordination failure, division of
surpluses, measurement of inequality, and alternative approaches to both
end-state and precedural justice.
Prereq- ECON 211, 370 or permission from instructor.
001 TTH     01:00PM-02:15PM SH*307   Moulin, Herve                  *CURRENT ENR: 0

ECON   505 MACROECON/MONETARY THEORY II             Credits 5.00  Spring 2000
More detailed discussion of selective Macroeconomic and Monetary topics.
001 TTH     02:10PM-03:25PM BB*271   Bryant, John                   *CURRENT ENR: 0

ECON   506 TOPICS IN MACROECON/MONETARY THEORY      Credits 5.00  Spring 2000
Selected topics of current interest.  The purpose of the course is to
introduce students to active research issues and methods to the
neoclassical school.
001 MW      09:00AM-10:15AM BB*271   Merz, Monika                   *CURRENT ENR: 0

ECON   508 MICROECONOMIC THEORY II                  Credits 5.00  Spring 2000
Continuation of Economics 507.  Set theoretic approach to general
equilibrium; aggregate linear and nonlinear production models;
existence, stability, optimality.
001 TTH     12:45PM-02:00PM BB*271   Dudey, Marc                    *CURRENT ENR: 0

ECON   510 ECONOMETRICS I                           Credits 5.00  Spring 2000
Estimation and inference in single equation regression models,
multicollinearity, autocorrelated and heteroskedastic disturbances,
distributed lags, asymptotic theory, and maximum likelihood techniques.
Emphasis is placed on the ability to analyze critically the literature.
Prereq- Econ 504.
Also offered as Stat 610.
001 TTH     09:15AM-10:30AM BB*271   El-Gamal, Mahmoud              *CURRENT ENR: 0

ECON   516 ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE U.S.             Credits 5.00  Spring 2000
Overview of U.S. economic history from the colonial period to World War
II.
001 MWF     01:00PM-01:50PM BB*116   Hasker, Kevin                  *CURRENT ENR: 0

ECON   521 PUBLIC FINANCE I                         Credits 5.00  Spring 2000
Theory of public goods and externalities, political mechanisms and
public choice, theory of local public goods, cost-benefit analysis and
project evaluation issues of income redistribution.
001 MW      10:45AM-12:00PM BB*271   Mieszkowski, Peter             *CURRENT ENR: 0

ECON   577 TOPICS IN ECONOMIC THEORY I              Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
Topics in macroeconomics theory, including topics from international
finance and open economy macroeconomics.
001 TTH     10:45AM-12:00PM BB*271   Moulin, Herve                  *CURRENT ENR: 0

ECON   578 TOPICS IN ECONOMIC THEORY I              Credits 5.00  Spring 2000
Study the growing influence of experimental methods in economics and
other social sciences, with hands-on experience in designing and running
experiments.
Enrollment limited to 45.
Also listed as Econ 496.
001 F       09:00AM-11:45AM BB*271    Gehrig, Thomas                *CURRENT ENR: 0

ECON   579 TOPICS IN ECONOMETRICS THEORY II         Credits 5.00  Spring 2000
Selected topics in advanced mathematical Econometrics.
001 M       07:00PM-10:00PM BB*271   Chang, Yoosoon                 *CURRENT ENR: 0

ECON   594 WORKSHOP IN MACROECONOMICS               Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
Continuation of Econ 593.
001 M       03:00PM-05:00PM BB*116   Barut, Yasar                   *CURRENT ENR: 0
002 TH      03:00PM-05:00PM BB*116   Moulin, Herve                  *CURRENT ENR: 0
003 F       03:00PM-05:00PM BB*116   Brown, Bryan                   *CURRENT ENR: 0
004                                  TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

ECON   596 WORKSHOP IN ECONOMICS II                 Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
Continuation of Econ 595.
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0
002 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0
003 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0
004 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

ECON   598 READINGS IN ADVANCED TOPICS              Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0
002                                  TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

ECON   800 GRADUATE RESEARCH                        Credits 1.00  Spring 2000
001 TBA     TBA                      Zodrow, George                 *CURRENT ENR: 0



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