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Economic And Business Statistics

Statistical ideas are part of the language of business. An understanding of statistics will enhance your value as a manager or executive. Many of the upper division courses in Accounting, Agriculture Economics, Economics, Finance, Management, Marketing, and Public Policy use and build upon the statistical techniques and analysis learned in ECO391. This course provides a survey of statistical techniques relevant to modern economics and business, with major emphasis on estimation, hypothesis testing, correlation, modeling, analysis of variance, regression, and forecasting.

Economic And Business Statistics

Statistical ideas are part of the language of business. An understanding of statistics will enhance your value as a manager or executive. Many of the upper division courses in Accounting, Agriculture Economics, Economics, Finance, Management, Marketing, and Public Policy use and build upon the statistical techniques and analysis learned in ECO391. This course provides a survey of statistical techniques relevant to modern economics and business, with major emphasis on estimation, hypothesis testing, correlation, modeling, analysis of variance, regression, and forecasting.

Cost Benefit Analysis

Cost-Benefit Analysis uses economic tools to identify and quantify how society values the outcomes of public policies. This course examines how to identify these costs and benefits, addresses uncertainty, evaluates research techniques used to measure policy outcomes, and discusses methods for valuing these outcomes.

International Monetary Economics

This course deals with macroeconomic and financial aspects of the open economy. Main subjects include the balance of payments, exchange rate determination, and macroeconomic theory and policy in an open economy. Students are exposed to basic concepts such as purchasing power parity, interest parity, monetary models of the exchange rate, and the Mundell-Fleming model. Current issues for discussion include currency crises, pros and cons of international capital flows, and the choice of exchange rate regime.

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