Managerial Economics

Phillip LeBel

Managerial Economics

As posted on the syllabus, this course contains weblinks to datasets, application modules, classroom case studies, and electronic reserve readings. These web-based materials are listed below.

Managerial Economics Syllabus

Econ 606 Managerial Economics

Course Reserve Readings

Acemoglu, Daron and Thierry Verdier (2000). "The Choice Between Market Failures and Corruption," American Economic Review, 90:1 (March), 194-211.

Agrawal, Anup, and Charles R. Knoeber (2001). "Do Some Outsiders Play a Political Role?" Journal of Law and Economics 44:1 (April), 179-198.

Barron, John M., Byung-Uk Chong, and Michael E. Staten (2008), "Emergence of Captive Finance companies and Risk Segmentation in Loan Markets: Theory and Evidence," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 40:1 (February), 173-192

Bator, Francis M. (1958), “Anatomy of Market Failure,” Journal of Political Economy, 72:3 (August), 351-379.

Beck, Paul J., and Thomas S. Zorn (1982), "Managerial Incentives in a Stock Market Economy" Journal of Finance 37:5 (December), 1151-1167.

Borenstein, Severin, James Bushnell, and Frank Wolak (2001). "Measuring Market Inefficiencies in California's Restructured Wholesale Electricity Market," paper presented at the ASSA conference in Atlanta, Georgia (January).

Shijun Cheng (2004). "R&D Expenditures and CEO Compensation" The Accounting Review 79:2 (April), 305-328.

Coase, Ronald H (1937), “The Nature of the Firm,” Economica, New Series 4:16 (November), 386-405.

Coase, Ronald H. (1960), “The Problem of Social Cost”, Journal of Law and Economics (October).

Federal Trade Commission (1973). “The Petroleum Industry: Structure and Conduct”, in Mansfield, Microeconomics Readings, (326-341).

Golan, Elise, Fred Kuchler, and Lorraine Mitchell (2000). "Economics of Food Labeling". (Washington, D.C.: Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Economic Report No. 793).

Goodland, Robert (1995). "The Concept of Environmental Sustainability," Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 26, 1-24.

Krautkraemer, Jeffrey A. (1998). "Nonrenewable Resource Scarcity," Journal of Economic Literature, 36:4 (December), pp. 2065-2107.

LeBel, P. (2005). "Optimal Pricing of Biodiverse Natural Resources for Sustainable Economic Growth," Journal of Development Alternatives, 24:1-2 (March-June), 5-38.

LeBel, P. (1999), "Measuring Sustainable Economic Development in Africa," Scandinavian Journal of Development Alternatives, 18:2-3 (June-September), 265-282.

Newell, Richard G., James N. Sanchirico, and Suzi Kerr (2002). "Fishing Quota Markets," Discussion Paper 02-20. (Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future).

Porter, Robert H. (1995), “The Role of Information in U.S. Offshore Oil and Gas Lease Auctions”. Econometrica 63:1 (January), pp. 1-28.

Wei Shen and Albert A. Cannella, Jr. (2002) "Revisiting the Performance Consequences of CEO Succession: The Impacts of Postsuccesion Senior Executive Turnover, and Departing CEO Tenure," The Academy of Management Journal 45:4 (August), 717-733

Datasets

1.	Africa Data
2.	Agricultural Subsidies
3.	Bills, Bonds, Stocks, Inflation
4.	Bond Market Profile
5.	Chesapeake Bay Marine Harvests
6.	Consumer Variety
7.	Corruption and Economic Development, 2001
8.	Economic Freedom and Corruption
9.	Education and Income
10.	Energy - Crude Oil Prices
11.	Energy Efficiency
12.	Energy Markets
13.	Energy Resources
14.	Gallery of Economic History
15.	Generosity Index 2001
16.	Generosity Index 2004
17.	Global Climate Indicators
18.	Global Energy Intensity
19.	Global Temperatures
20.	Globalization Trends
21.	Growth and Development
22.	Growth and Trade
23.	Human Development Index 1998
24.	Human Development Index 2001
25.	Human Development Index 2004
26.	International Clean Water Access Rates, 1980-2005
27.	International Health Care
28.	International R and D Patterns
29.	Measuring Global Information Levels
30.	One Hundred Largest Companies, 1995
31.	One Hundred Largest Companies, 1999
32.	One Hundred Largest Companies 2002
33.	One Hundred Largest Companies 2004
34.	Risk and Economic Growth
35.	Risk Perception Rankings
36.	Stock Market Bubbles
37.	Do Types of Taxation Affect Real Per Capita GDP?
38.	Tax Havens
39.	Telecommunications Mergers
40.	The Global Commercial Aircraft Market
41.	U.S. Agriculture
42.	U.S.Budget and Trade Balance
43.	U.S. Budget Trends
44.	U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions
45.	U.S. Carbon Dioxide Intensity
46.	U.S.Civilian Labor Force
47.	U.S. Current R and D by Source
48.	U.S. Futures and Options Markets
49.	U.S. High-Level Nuclear Waste
50.	U.S. Low-Level Nuclear Waste
51.	U.S. Municipal Solid Waste
52.	U.S. Superfund Sites
53.	Venture Capital Personified
54.	World Air Passenger Travel Trends
55.	World Bicycle Production
56.	World Biofuels Production
57.	World Fish Consumption
58.	World Fossil Fuel Consumption
59.	World Grain Production
60.	World Meat Production
61.	World Metals Production
62.	World Nuclear and Renewable Energy
63.	World Profitability and Risk in Globalization
64.	World Roundwood Production
65.	World Vehicle Production
66.	World Wars and Armed Conflicts
67.	World Weather Losses

Application Modules

1.	Am Djena Project Case Study
2.	AmDjenaLoanSolution
3.	Basic Cost Benefit Analysis
4.	Basic Forecasting
5.	Biodiversity Index
5.	Chaos in Asset Pricing
6.	Circular Flow Diagram
7.	Cobb Douglas Production Function
8.	Commodity Price Stabilization
9.	Competitive Strategy
10.	Cost Analysis
11.	Cost Curve Relationships
12.	Economic Analysis First Exam Review
13.	Economic Analysis Second Exam Review
14.	Economic Analysis Final Exam Review
15.	Economic Functions of the Public Sector
16.	Efficient Portfolios
17.	Engel Curves
18.	Excise Taxation
19.	Excise Tax Criteria
20.	Excise Tax Optimization
21.	Exhaustible Resource MultiPeriod Model
22.	Externalities
23.	Externalities Optimal Management Model
24.	Fundamentals of Finance
25.	Income Inequality Measurement
26.	Introductory Price Elasticity
27.	Introductory Price Elasticity Summary Relations
28.	Leontief Basic Static Input-Output Model
29.	Marginal Productivity
30.	Matrix Operations
31.	Millet Mill Solution Tableau
32.	Optimal Allocation of Renewable Natural Resources
33.	Optimal Investment Storage
34.	Optimal Product Mix
35.	Optimal Resource Pricing
36.	Optimal Taxation of Negative Externalities
37.	Pension Systems
38.	Price Discrimination and Economic Efficiency
39.	Random Demand Profit Maxima
40.	Regression Demand and Supply
41.	Renewable Natural Resources Single Species Dynamics
42.	Simple Regression Analysis
43.	Social Discrimination
44.	Stock Market Valuation
45.	Strategic Plan Framework
46.	Supply and Demand
47.	Tariffs and Quotas in International Trade
48.	The Basic Stock Option Pricing Model
49.	The Circular Flow of an Economy
50.	The Cobweb Model
51.	The Gini Inequality Model
52.	The Law of Variable Proportions
53.	The Measurement of Risk
54.	The Ranking of Risk
55.	Tradable Pollution Permits
56.	Transportation Problem
57.	Tropical Timber Model
58.	Point Voting Systems
59.	Voting Systems
60.	Working Capital Management

Case Studies

1.	Basic Supply and Demand
2.	The Own Price Elasticty of Demand and Total Revenue Test
3.	Optimal Food Stamp Pricing
4.	Engel Curve Income Elasticity of Demand
5.	Excise Taxation Case Study
6.	Optimal Excise Taxation
7.	Trade and Tariff Economics
8.	Variable Inputs in Production
9.	Production and Cost Functions
10.	Basic Economic Efficiency
11.	Basic Market Dynamics
12.	Pure Monopoly
13.	Competition versus Monopoly
14.	Multi-product Monopoly Model
15.	The Cournot Duopoly Model
16.	The Strategic Behavior Model
17.	Commodity Price Stabilization
18.	Profit Maximization under Risk
19.	Optimal Pricing of Exhaustible Resources V.1
20.	Static Natural Resource Optimization
21.	Renewable Natural Resource Optimization
22.	Externalities Case Study
23.	The Leontief Static Input-Output Model
24.	The Basic Harrod Domar Model
25.	Financial Analysis of Projects
26.	Case Study - The Millet Mill Project
27.	The Am Djena Livestock Project
28.	Polynomial Ambiguity
29.	Livestock Econometric Model
30.	Income Distribution

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