Contemporary issues in globalization and international monetary cooperation, including international capital flows, central banking in emerging market economies, international debt, global and regional economic integration and international economic policy coordination.

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No text utilized.  Reading material sourced from scholarly journals.

Economic analysis of international currency and bond market dynamics. Implications of fiscal, monetary and exchange rate policies for financial markets. Trade and capital flows.  Study of currency and financial crises.

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Textbooks Utilized: 

International Economics: Theory and Policy. Krugman

International Monetary & Financial Economics, Daniels

Economic analysis of how and why commodities are traded among nations; tariffs and quotas; common market and other international institutions.

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Textbooks Utilized:

International Economics: Theory and Policy.  Krugman

International Economics. Salvatore.

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Analysis of Federal Reserve policy on interest rates; evaluation of market reports of economic indicators; effects on financial markets; leading/coincident/lagging indicators; business cycles and financial cycles.  Note that a presentation to the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is required.  Use of eViews, Excel & Python are required.

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Textbooks Utilized:

The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets.  Mishkin

Monetary Policy Strategy.  Mishkin

Interaction of politics and economics in the international arena.  Focus on state and societal level economics and the interaction between political actors.

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Textbooks Utilized:

International Political Economy: Perspectives on Global Power and Wealth.  Friedan, Lake & Broz

International Political Economy.  Oatley

Studies firm behavior in perfectly and imperfectly competitive markets. Analyzes strategic interaction among firms and among stakeholders in game-theoretic settings. Examines public policy issues, including antitrust and other government regulations.

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Textbooks Utilized:

Managerial Economics.  Baye

Market Structure and Behavior:  Shubik

Economics of Regulation and Antitrust.  Harrington & Shappington

Overview of economic factors that influence the development and participation of today’s developing countries in the global economy; problems with economic transition, environment, technology, and impact of global financial, trade, and investment systems.

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Textbooks Utilized:

Issues and Challenges of Development: An Introduction.  Pattanaik

Additional readings sourced from scholarly journals.

Data collection methods; descriptive statistics; sampling analysis; hypothesis testing; multiple regression; qualitative data analysis; seasonality, trend and time-series forecasting; moving average and exponential smoothing.  Use of Excel is required.  

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Textbooks Utilized:

Business Statistics.  Donelly

Concepts and tools of aggregate economic analysis; inflation, unemployment, balance of payments, national income; determinants of the level of economic activity; money and banking; the role of government.

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Textbooks Utilized:

Opensource textbooks are utilized for this class.

Basic concepts and tools of economic analysis; prices and outputs, marketing structures, wages and profits; international trade and effects of tariffs.

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Textbooks Utilized:

Opensource textbooks are utilized for this class.