Introduction to Economic Analysis
Fall 2013
Jeffrey Parker, Reed College
Assignments
Cases of the Day
- September 6: Trust in Everyday Transactions
- September 9: Markets, Scalpers, and Queues: The Economics of Event Tickets
- September 11: Elasticities of Demand for Higher Education
- September 15: Counterintuitive Price Behavior of Seasonal Goods
- September 20: Measuring Utility
- September 23: Oil Prices and Consumer Demand
- September 27 & 30: Costs and Production in Dairy Farming
- October 4: The Washington State Sales Tax and Interstate Competition in Retail Trade
- October 7: Dairy Farming from the Input Side [Solutions]
- October 11: The New York City Ice Trust
- October 14: Price Discrimination in Higher Education
- October 28: The Global Lysine Price-Fixing Conspiracy
- November 1: Higher Education as an Investment
- November 4: Tracing the Effects of the 1970s Oil Embargo
- November 8: The Grand Banks Fishery
- November 11: None
- November 15: Appropriability and the Incentives for Innovation
- November 18: The Great Depression
- November 20: Macroeconomics and Happiness
- November 22: Information Technology and Productivity
- November 25: Mortgage-Backed Securities and the Allocation of Risk
- December 2: Money and Inflation in Argentina
- December 6: Monetary and Fiscal Policies in 2008-10
- December 9: U.S. Disinflation in 1979-82
Homework Assignments
- Problem Set #1 (due September 11) [Solutions]
- Problem Set #2 (due September 18)
- Problem Set #3 (due September 25) [Solutions]
- Problem Set #4 (due October 2) [Solutions]
- Problem Set #5 (due October 9) [Solutions on Moodle]
- Economic Naturalist Assignment (due October 30)
- Problem Set #6 (due November 6) [Solutions]
- Problem Set #7 (due November 27)
- Problem Set #8 (due December 4)
- Group Research Project (reports due December 11, presentations December 13)