Analysis of current international issues concerning cross-border trade and capital flows; methods of trade policy analysis; implications of regional and global economic integration.

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Textbooks Utilized:

International Economics. Salvatore.

Advanced International Trade: Theory and Evidence, Feenstra.

Additional reading material sourced from scholarly journals.

In-depth analysis of contemporary economic issues in developing countries, for example, population growth, domestic and foreign investment, technology, trade, foreign aid, external debt, and government policy.

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Textbooks Utilized:

Economics of Development. Perkins.

Development Economics. Ray.

Additional reading material sourced from scholarly journals.

Data analysis using spreadsheet software: sampling, testing and statistical inference; study of relationships between variables within business contexts; regression, correlation and time-series analyses with business applications including forecasting. Some sections may be technologically mediated.

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Textbooks Utilized:

Intermediate Statistics: A Modern Approach.  Stevens.

Nature and flow of money and credit; influence on prices, production, and employment; the Federal Reserve and banking systems; national income, and international monetary relations. Some sections may be technologically mediated.

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Textbooks Utilized:

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

Additional reading material sourced from scholarly journals.

Elementary business and economics statistics with computer applications; descriptive statistics, frequency distribution, probability, sampling distribution, estimation, and significance tests. Some sections may be technologically mediated.

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Textbooks Utilized:

Opensource textbooks are utilized for this class.