ECON 208: Microeconomic Analysis and Application (3 credits)
A university-level introduction to demand and supply, consumer behaviour, production theory, market structures and income distribution theory
Terms: Fall 2011 & Winter 2012
Instructors: Mayssun El-Attar Vilalta (Fall), Paul Dickinson
Prerequisite: ECON 208 or permission of the instructor
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking ECON 230 or 250
208 Outline - Paul Dickinson
208 Outline - Mayssun El-Attar Vilalta
ECON 209 - Macroeconomic Analysis and Applications (3 credits)
A university-level introduction to national income determination, money and banking, inflation, unemployment and economic policy.
Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012
Instructors: Mayssun El-Attar Vilalta (Winter), Paul Dickinson
Prerequisite: ECON 208 or permission of the instructor
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking ECON 330 or 352
209 Outline - Mayssun El-Attar Vilalta
209 Outline - Paul Dickinson
209 Outline - Sébastien Forté
ECON 219 - Current Economic Problems: Topics (3 credits)
This course will deal with topical issues of importance to the Canadian economy.
Term: Fall 2011
Instructor: Christopher Ragan
ECON 223 - Political Economy of Trade Policy (3 Credits)
The course introduces students to the economics of international trade, what constitutes good trade policy, and how trade policy is decided. The course examines Canadian trade policy since 1945, including the GATT, Auto Pact, the FTA and NAFTA, and concludes with special topics in trade policy.
Term: Winter 2011
Instructor: William Watson
Prerequisite: ECON 208
ECON 227 - Economic Statistics (6 credits)
Distributions, averages, dispersions, sampling, testing, estimation, correlation, regression, index numbers, trends and seasonals.
Terms: Full Year Course - Fall 2011 & Winter 2012
Instructor: Kenneth Mackenzie
Students must register for both ECON 227D1 and ECON 227D2.
227 Outline - Kenneth MacKenzie
ECON 230 - Microeconomy Theory (6 credits)
The introductory course for Economics Major students in microeconomic theory. In depth and critical presentation of the theory of consumer behaviour, theory of production and cost curves, theory of the firm, theory of distribution, welfare economics and the theory of general equilibrium.
Terms: Full Year - Fall 2011 & Winter 2012
Instructors: Isabel Galiana (Fall), John Kurien (Winter), James Engle-Warnick
Students must register for both ECON 230D1 and ECON 230D2
ECON 250 - Introduction to Economic Theory: Honours (6 credits)
An intermediate level microeconomics course. Includes theory of exchange, theory of consumer behaviour, theory of production and cost curves, theory of the firm, theory of distribution; general equilibrium and welfare economics. The assumptions underlying the traditional neo-classical approach to economic theory will be carefully specified.
Terms: Full Year - Fall 2011 & Winter 2012
Instructions: Licun Xue (Fall), Maxim Sinitsyn (Winter)
Prerequisites: MATH 140 and 141
Students must register for both ECON 250D1 and ECON250D2
250D1 Outline - Jeffrey Carpenter
250D2 Outline - Maxim Sinitsyn
ECON 257 - Economic Statistics: Honours (6 credits)
Stochastic phenomena; probability and frequency distributions, introduction to probability theory. Statistical inference about proportions, means and variances; analysis of variance; nonparametric statistics; index numbers and time series; economic forecasting; regression and correlation analysis; introduction to general linear models, its uses and limitations; uses and misuses of statistics.
Terms: Full Year - Fall 2011 & Winter 2012
Instructor: John Galbraith (Fall), Victoria Zinde-Walsh (Winter)
Prerequisites: MATH 141 and MATH 133
Corequisite: ECON 250
Students must register for both ECON 257D1 and D2.
Course Outline - John Galbraith