Text Box: David J. Berri
Professor of Economics
 


 
 
 

 


 

 

 

 

CLASS SCHEDULE FOR SPRING 2012 SEMESTER

 

ECON 4950-01: Senior Seminar - Economics (12900)

Monday-Wednesday-Friday from 12pm to 12:50pm

Business 106

 

ECON 1740 – 01: US Economic History (11886)

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

Teacher Education 202

 

ECON 6200-01: Managerial Economics (10025)

Wednesday 5:30pm to 8:20pm

Business 102

 

OFFICE HOURS FOR FALL SEMESTER

Monday & Friday: 2pm to 4pm

Wednesday: 2pm to 3pm

Tuesday & Thursday: 2:30pm 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

·         History Notes UPDATED

First Exam Study Guides

·         Study Guide One

·         Study Guide Two UPDATED

·         Study Guide Three

·         Study Guide Four

First Exam Power Points

·         Power Point Slides One: Introduction to US Economic History

·         Power Point Slides Two: History of Economic Growth UPDATED

·         Power Point Slides Three: History of United States Economic Growth

·         Power Point Slides Four: Colonial America

FINAL EXAM WILL BE WEDNESDAY, MAY 2 @ 1pm

 

·         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   CNN Poll on Government Spending from November 2010

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

o   GDP data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (1929 to 2010)

 

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   Rolnick, Arthur J. and Warren E. Weber. 1983. “New Evidence on the Free Banking Era.” American Economic Review, 73: 1080-91.

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

 

COURSE FILES FOR SENIOR SEMINAR - ECONOMICS

TEXTBOOOKS:

 

Kahane, Leo. Regression Basics. Sage Publications. 2007

Heilbroner, Robert. The Worldly Philosophers, 7th ed.

McCloskey, Deirdre N. (2000). Economical Writing. 2nd Edition. Waveland Press, Inc. 

 

·         Syllabus

·         Class Outline and Research Guide

First Exam Study Guides

·         Study Guide One (chapter 1 of Kahane and lecture notes)

·         Study Guide Two (chapters 2 and 3 of Kahane)

·         Study Guide Three (chapters 1 and 2 of Heilbroner)

·         Study Guide Four (chapters 4-6 of Kahane)

·         Study Guide Five (chapter 3 of Heilbroner)

·         Study Guide Six (chapter 7 of Kahane and general econometric notes)

·         Study Guide Seven (chapter 4 of Heilbroner)

First Exam Power Points

·         Power Point Slides One: Basic Regression Lecture 1

·         Power Point Slides Two: Basic Regression Lecture 2

·         Power Point Slides Three: Basic Regression Lecture 3

·         Power Point Slides Four: Basic Regression Lecture 4

·         Power Point Slides Five: Basic Regression Lecture 5

·         Power Point Slides Six: Presidential Election Research (Berri and Peach and notes on Larry Bartels)

 

Hibbs, Douglas. 2007. The Economy, the War in Iraq and the 2004 Presidential Election

Bartels, Larry M. 1997. Econometrics and Presidential Elections. (February). Journal of Economic Perspectives

 

FINAL EXAM WILL BE TUESDAY, MAY 1 @ 11am

 

 

COURSE FILES MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS

PRIMARY TEXTBOOK:

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

 

·         Syllabus

·         Simulation Guide (updated January 25)

·         Homework 1

·         Homework 1 data set

Simulation Results

·         Quarter 21

·         Quarter 22

First Exam Study Guides

·         Study Guide One (updated)

·         Study Guide Two (updated)

·         Study Guide Three (updated)

Second Exam Study Guides

·         Study Guide Four

First Exam Power Points

·         Power Point Slides: Lessons Learned in Class (updated January 25)

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

·         Power Point Slides Two: “Boss Economics”

·         Power Point Slides Three: Introduction to Behavioral Economics

·         Power Point Slides Four: Chapter Two (Theory of the Firm)

·         Power Point Slides Five: Chapter Three (Regression Analysis)

Second Exam Power Points

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

 

First Exam is February 15, 2012 (in the classroom at 5:30pm)

 

 

 

·           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.