Change prerequisites for ECON 6901 and semester offerings for ECON 6112, 6201, 6202, 6218, and 6902

Date: April 26, 2012
To: Belk College of Business
From: Office of Academic Affairs
Approved On: April 19, 2012
Implementation Date: 2012

Note: Deletions are strikethroughs. Insertions are underlined.

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ECON 6112. Graduate Econometrics. (3) Prerequisites: Admission to graduate program and permission of program coordinator. Advanced study of the theory and application of statistics to economic problems. Topics include derivation of least-squares estimators; maximum likelihood estimation; and problems of multicollinearity, heterskedasticity, and autocorrelation. (Fall, Spring)

ECON 6201. Advanced Macroeconomic Theory (3) Prerequisites: Admission to graduate program and permission of program coordinator. Theories of aggregate income determination, inflation, unemployment, interest rates and economic growth; macro-economic consumption and investment behavior; the business cycle. (Fall, Spring)

ECON 6202. Advanced Microeconomic Theory. (3) Prerequisite: Admission to graduate program and permission of program coordinator. Theories of the firm, of the consumer, and of resource owners; determination of prices under different market structures; general equilibrium analysis of welfare economics. (Fall, Spring)

ECON 6218. Advanced Business and Economic Forecasting. (3) Prerequisite: ECON 6112. Develops forecasting techniques used in business decision making and techniques used in forecasting macroeconomic variables. Topics include: estimation, identification and prediction using ARMAX, state space, and Box-Jenkins models; spectral analysis; linear filtering. (Fall, Spring)

ECON 6901. Research Methods for Economists I. (3) Prerequisites: ECON 6112 or ECON 6113, ECON 6202, and either ECON 6201, ECON 6202 or ECON 6203. Research programs in economics; problem identification; interpretation of statistical results; bibliographic search; data sources and collection; selection of statistical technique; preparation of reports and proposals. (Spring)

ECON 6902. Research Methods for Economists II. (3) Prerequisite: ECON 6901. Critique of economic research and reports, presentation of econometric results and reports. The student will develop a research project, perform statistical tests, and present the results orally and in a major research paper. (Summer Fall)