Text Box: David J. Berri
Professor of Economics
 


 
 
 

 


 

 

 

 

CLASS SCHEDULE FOR SPRING 2013 SEMESTER

 

ECON 2020-02:Principles of Macroeconomics (11406)

Tuesday-Thursday from 10am to 11:20am

Business 110

 

ECON 1740 – 01: US Economic History (11789)

Monday-Wednesday-Friday from 1pm to 1:50pm

Centrum 229

 

ECON 6200 - 01: Managerial Economics  (10025)

Thursday 5:30pm to 8:20pm

Business 102

 

OFFICE HOURS FOR SPRING SEMESTER

Monday & Tuesday & Wednesday & Friday: 2pm to 4pm

 

SUU School of Business Academic Integrity Policy

 

COURSE FILES FOR U.S. ECONOMIC HISTORY

 

PRIMARY TEXTBOOK: Heilbroner, Robert and Aaron Singer. 1999. The Economic Transformation of America: 1600 to the Present. 4th ed. Wadsworth Cengage Learning.

 

·         Syllabus

First Exam Study Guides

·         Study Guide One

·         Study Guide Two

·         Study Guide Three

·         Study Guide Four

·         Study Guide Five

·         Book Guide One

First Exam Power Points

·         Power Point Slides One: Introduction to US Economic History

·         Power Point Slides Two: Economic Growth Basics and the Roman Empire

·         Power Point Slides Three: End of Malthus

·         Power Point Slides Four: Economic Systems I

·         Power Point Slides Five: Economic Systems II

·         Power Point Slides Six: Government in Mixed Capitalism

·         Power Point Slides Seven: US Economic Growth History

 

Second Exam Study Guides

·         Study Guide Six

·         Study Guide Seven

·         Study Guide Eight

·         Study Guide Nine

·         Study Guide Ten

·         Book Guide Two

·         Book Guide Three

·         Book Guide Four

Second Exam Power Points

·         Power Point Slides Eight: Colonial America

·         Power Point Slides Nine: The American Revolution

·         Power Point Slides Ten: The Founding Fathers

·         Power Point Slides Eleven: Pre Civil War

·         Power Point Slides Twelve: Civil War

·         Power Point Slides Thirteen: Abraham Lincoln and the American System

 

Third Exam Study Guides

·         Study Guide Eleven

·         Study Guide Twelve

·         Study Guide Thirteen

·         Study Guide Fourteen

·         Study Guide Fifteen

·         Study Guide Sixteen

·         Book Guide Five

·         Book Guide Six

 

Third Exam Power Points

·         Power Point Slides Fourteen: Precious Metals and Populism

·         Power Point Slides Fifteen: The Federal Reserve

·         Power Point Slides Sixteen: The Great Depression

·         Power Point Slides Seventeen: The New Deal

·         Power Points Slides Eighteen: Great Depression & Great Recession

·         Power Point Slides Nineteen: History of National Debt

·         Power Point Slides Twenty: 40 LESSONS

 

REVIEW SESSION FOR FINAL:  Friday at 1pm (CENTRUM 229)

 

·         Additional Material:

o    EH.net (from the Economic History Association) and MeasuringWorth.com

o   David, Paul. 1985.  “Clio and the Economics of QWERTY.” American Economic Review. 75, n. 2 (May): 332-37

o    Gross, Daniel. 2005. “A Man, a Plan, a Canal: Erie! The $7.9 million bet that made America”

o    Galor, Oded and David N. Weil. 1999. “From Malthusian Stagnation to Modern Growth” American Economic Review. (May): 150-154.

o    Fogel, Robert W. 1999. “Catching Up with the Economy.” American Economic Review. March: 1-21.

o   Ray Fair 2012 Presidential Forecast (November, 2010)

 

o   Timeline from Charles Mann’s 1491

o    McGuire, Robert A. 1986. “An Economic Model of Voting Behavior over Specific Issues at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. The Journal of Economic History, 46: 79-111

 

o   Rockoff, Hugh. 1990. “The “Wizard of Oz” as a Monetary Allegory” Journal of Political Economy, August: 739-760

o    The End of the Great Recession (Mark Zandi and Alan Blinder)

o   GDP data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (1929 to 2011)

 

COURSE FILES FOR PRINCIPLES OF MACROECONOMICS

TEXTBOOOK: Colander, David C; Macroeconomics, 9th ed.; McGraw-Hill-Irwin; 2012.

 

·         Syllabus

First Exam Study Guides

·         Study Guide One (Updated)

·         Study Guide Two (Updated)

·         Study Guide Three (Updated)

·         Study Guide Four

·         Study Guide Five

First Exam Power Points

·         Power Point Slides One: Chapter One

·         Power Point Slides Two: Chapter Two (Updated)

·         Power Point Slides Three: Chapter Three (Updated)

·         Power Point Slides Four: Chapter Four

·         Power Point Slides Five: Chapter Five

 

Second Exam Study Guides

·         Study Guide Six (Chapter 6

·         Study Guide Seven (Chapter 7)

·         Study Guide Eight (Chapters 17&18)

·         Study Guide Nine (Chapters 10&9)

·         Study Guide Ten (Chapter 12)

 

Second Exam & Third Exam Power Points  (these will be distributed in class)

·         Non-Book Slides: Chapters 6, 7, 17, 18, 10, 9, 12, 13, 16)

·         Power Point Slides: History of National Debt

 

Third Exam Study Guides

·         Study Guide Eleven (Chapter 13)

·         Study Guide Twelve (Chapter 16)

·         Study Guide Thirteen (Chapter 15)

 

REVIEW SESSION FOR FINAL:  Friday at 2:30pm (BUSINESS 110)

 

Card, David and Alan Krueger. 1994. “Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast-Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.” American Economic Review. (September): 84, n4. 772-793

 

·         Supply and Demand Worksheet (for study of taxes and prices controls)

Worksheet created by James La Rue

 

 

 

 

 

COURSE FILES MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS

PRIMARY TEXTBOOK:

              Hirschey, Mark 2009. Fundamentals of Managerial Economics 9th ed.. Southwestern

 

·         Syllabus

·         Simulation Guide

·         Simulation Link

·         Simulation Report Guide

·         Homework 1

·         Homework 1 data set

·         Power Point Slides: Lessons Learned in Class

 

Simulation Results

·         Team Report Sample

 

First Exam Study Guides

·         Study Guide One

·         Study Guide Two

·         Study Guide Three

Second Exam Study Guides

·         Study Guide Four

·         Study Guide Five

 

Third Exam Study Guides

·         Study Guide Six

·         Study Guide Seven

 

 

First Exam Power Points

·         Power Point Slides One: Chapter One, EVA, and Profit

·         Power Point Slides: Behavioral Economics Notes

·         Power Point Slides Two: Boss Economics

·         Power Point Slides Three: Chapter Two (Basic Micro)

·         Power Point Slides Four: Chapter Three (Basic Regression)

Second Exam Power Points

·         Power Point Slides Five: Chapter Four and Five (Demand Analysis)

·         Power Point Slides Six: Chapters Six and Seven (Production and Cost)

Third Exam Power Points

·         Power Point Slides Seven: Industrial Organization

·         Power Point Slides Eight: Game Theory

 

·           Additional Material:

o   Seven Habits of Unsuccessful Executives (from Forbes Magazine)

o    Is Your Boss Faking Competency (from Time Magazine)

o    Kruger, Justin and David Dunning. 1999.Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. v77, n6: 1121-1134

o    Sigmund, Karl, Ernst Fehr, and Martin A. Nowak. “The Economics of Fair Play.” Scientific American. January, 2002: pp. 83-87.

o    Michael Lewis “Don’t Eat Fortune’s Cookie.”  (video of graduation speech)

o    Mukand, Sharon and Ethan Kaplan.  (2011) “Persistence of Political Partisanship: Evidence from 9/11.”

o   Berri, David J., Stacey Brook, and Aju Fenn (2011). “From College to the Pros: Predicting the NBA Amateur Player Draft;  Journal of Productivity Analysis, 35, n1; 25-35.

o   Berri, David J. and Rob Simmons (2011). “Catching a Draft: On the Process of Selecting Quarterbacks in the National Football League amateur draft;  Journal of Productivity Analysis, 35, n1; 37-49.

o    Supply and Demand Worksheet