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  • 1.00 - 4.00 Credits

    Special topics and courses may vary. Repeatable for credit when topic is different.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Restricted to students in the Honors Program working on their Honors degree.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course provides students with skills necessary for understanding the survey research process with a focus on surveys to inform public policy. The goal is to familiarize students with survey design, implementation, and analysis. Approaches include survey construction, sampling, reliability, validity, and data analysis and interpretation. Students will apply the knowledge gained through the course work to conduct a survey for public, nonprofit, or private sector entity.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is an introduction to the field of business economics. Topics include value creation and value capture, demand curves, supply curves, optimization, equilibrium, monopoly, oligopoly, price discrimination, and elasticity. Business applications include setting optimal prices, understanding competition, choices over differentiated products, entering new markets, scale economies and diseconomies. Course sessions will consist of a mix of lecture and discussion. Readings will rely heavily on current news articles to illuminate the direct applicability of economics to the current business world. Prerequisites: "C" or better in (MATH 1210 OR MATH 1220 OR MATH 1310 OR MATH 1320 OR MATH 1250) OR (AP Calculus BC score of 3 or better) OR (AP Calculus AB score of 4 or better).
  • 1.50 Credits

    This course is the continuation of a survey of the applications of economic analysis to business decision-making. Calculus is a prerequisite and will be used throughout. The first part of the course studies game theoretic models of competition including quantity-choice games, analysis of entry, exit and equilibrium industry structure, and spatial preference and spatial competition. The second part of the course studies principal agent models, introducing ideas of hidden action and moral hazard, participation and incentive constraints, and value-maximizing contracts. Prerequisites: "C-" or better in BUS 2011 AND 'C' or better in (MATH 1210 OR MATH 1220 OR MATH 1310 OR MATH 1320 OR MATH 1250 OR AP Calculus BC score of 3 or better OR AP Calculus AB score of 4 or better).
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is an introduction to the field of game theory. Topics include games in normal and extensive form, Nash equilibrium, equilibrium in mixed strategies, backward induction and subgame perfection, repeated games, games of incomplete information and Bayesian equilibrium. Business applications include competitive pricing, first-mover advantages, collusion and cooperation, and bargaining. Prerequisites: 'C-' or better in ((QAMO 3010 OR QAMO 3015) OR ('B+' or better in BUS 2011)) AND 'B+' or better in MATH 1220 OR MATH 1260 OR MATH 1320 OR AP Calculus BC score of 4+ OR Full Major status in QAMO
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course illustrates the applications of economics to the various business disciplines. Economic analysis is applied to essential questions in accounting, entrepreneurship, finance, information systems, marketing, management, operations and strategy. Specific topics vary, but may include the economics of disclosure, market entry, asset pricing, advertising, incentives in organizations, process optimization, and competitive advantage. Corequisites: QAMO 3020 AND QAMO 3040.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is a quantitative survey of the appli- cations of probability and statistics in the economic analysis of business decision-making. This course is taught at a mathematically advanced level; calculus is a pre-requisite and is used throughout. The course is intended for students enrolled in or considering the QAMO major at the David Eccles School of Business. This course will also provide an introduction to python, which is a modern statistical computing software. This course will satisfy the statistics requirement for QAMO 4651 (Econometrics I). Prerequisites: 'C-' or better in QAMO 3010 OR BUS 2011 OR 'B+' or better in BUS 2011
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course examines monetary and financial institutions and markets from the perspectives of theory, practice, and policy. Major topics of the course include the history and evolution of the monetary and financial system; the modern financial system; banking, money, and finance in macroeconomic theory; and the conduct of monetary policy. This course is part of the Business Economics and Analytics emphasis and incorporates Calculus I and II as strict prerequisites. Students lacking these prerequisites or not intending to complete the BEA emphasis should register for ECON 3200. Prerequisites: 'B+' or better in MATH 1220 OR MATH 1260 OR MATH 1320 OR MATH 1321 OR AP Calculus BC score of 4+ OR Full Major status in QAMO
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course introduces you to a self-contained analysis of some of the major building blocks of neoclassical microeconomic theory and is purely theoretical in nature. This course will explore the decision-making of economic agents (consumers and firms) and examine how different market mechanisms operate to allocate resources and thereby affect social welfare. This course is part of the Business Economics and Analytics emphasis and incorporates Calculus I and II as strict prerequisites. Students lacking these prerequisites or not intending to complete the BEA emphasis should register for ECON 4010. Prerequisites: 'B+' or better in MATH 1220 OR MATH 1260 OR MATH 1320 OR MATH 1321 OR AP Calculus BC score of 4+ OR Full Major status in QAMO