This course provides students with an overview of modern techniques in the forecast of time series used in a variety of applications in the private and public sectors including revenue and sales forecasting. Asan applied course the techniques will be motivated by specific practical problems and will be put to use in forecasting practices. The course covers auto-regressive and moving average models, distributed lag models, forecasting, Vector Auto-Regression, unit roots and testing, and auto-regressive conditional heteroskedasticity.

ECO 631 studies the economics of organizations and the economics of strategy. The first half of the course applies transactions costs and principal-agent theories to study the internal organization of the firm. Topics to be covered include the boundaries of the firm, corporate governance, choice of production process, and internal incentive systems. The second half of the course applies economic tools to the analysis of firm strategy.

This course applies general theoretical principles of economics to the health care sector. The basic approach is to recognize the importance of scarcity and incentives, allowing for differences peculiar to health. The demand and supply of health and medical care are examined as they involve physicians, nurses and hospitals. The competitiveness of their markets, health insurance and the role of government are explored. Special topics include regulation and planning, benefit-cost analysis, and reform health plans.

An analysis of trade patterns and the implication of government policy on trade, in the light of both economic theory and empirical findings.

Topics and methods for students who wish to become policy practitioners as well for those who will deal with policy makers. Focus is on role of the federal, state, and local government in the economic with both the expenditure and revenue sides of the government budget examined. Substantial material from standard public finance courses including welfare measures and cost-benefit analysis, program evaluation, and tax analysis.

The purpose of this course is to assist the student in developing and completing a research study applying the tools and institutional knowledge obtained in other courses in the Applied Economics courses to evaluate an important economic policy or concern in either the public or private sector. While much of the work in the course is done independently students will meet together to discuss their progress as well as meet with the instructor individually.

Theoretical and empirical assessment of dynamic issues in macroeconomics. Topics include neoclassical and endogenous growth models and vector autoregressions.

May be repeated to a maximum of six semesters.

May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours.

The course examines the current theories and methods of teaching English as a second language. The course will include (1) language learning theory as it relates to other disciplines; (2) methods and techniques of contrastive analysis. Prereq: One course in linguistics or consent of instructor. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit. Same as ENG/LIN 513.