The transition from state ownership and central planning to mixed ownership structure with resource allocation by market mechanisms. “Classical...
Economic analysis applied to selected policy areas, issues or institutions. One or more of the following topics may be dealt with: decision-making by...
An introduction to the application of economic principles and methodology to a variety of legal problems with emphasis on the theory of property...
An introduction to the economics of information and the media, with a focus on the analysis of production and distribution of information, the...
An examination of the agricultural industry in the national economy and in low-income societies, with emphasis on the working out of the basic forces...
Analysis of the structure, institutions, and performance of alternative economic systems, including capitalism, socialism, and communism. Selected...
Content may vary from year to year and is announced in advance of the registration period. Precludes additional credit for ECON 3402 (no longer...
Graded Sat/Uns. Prerequisite(s): registration in the Honours Economics or Applied Economics Co-operative Education option, satisfactory completion of...
Analysis and algebra: including set theory, sequences and series, quadratic forms, separation and fixed-point theorems. Static optimization: including...
Probability: including conditional probability, random variables and distributions, unconditional and conditional expectations. Distributions:...
Linear programming, duality, sensitivity analysis, transportation and network problems. Both theory and a wide range of applications are studied....
Dynamic programming, inventory models, queuing, simulation, and non-linear programming. Prerequisite(s): ECON 4004 or BUSI 2300 (no longer offered)...
Advanced theory of individual economic behaviour in production, consumption, and general equilibrium. Elementary tools of mathematics are employed in...
An introduction to advanced macroeconomic models. Topics may include analysis of business cycles, inflation, unemployment, economic growth, fiscal and...
Analysis of strategic behaviour using non-cooperative game theory. Topics include extensive-form and strategic-form representation of games, and...
Dynamic models as applied to topics such as economic growth, business cycles, consumption, investment, inflation, and real-financial linkages....
Uncertainty, imperfect information, and asymmetric information in the allocation of resources and the performance of markets and alternative...
Factors that drive security prices and models that attempt to account for aspects of security returns, including the generic arbitrage pricing model,...
Optimization and corporate finance. Corporate governance and managerial compensation. Capital structure and the Modigliani-Miller theorem. Agency...
The modeling of the evolution of prices in (near) efficient markets and the evaluation of functions of these prices such as guarantees, options,...