Investment incentives, country risk indices. Practical cases from Ireland, E. European countries, China, and other E. Asian countries. 341 Economic Analysis - Builds on 241 concepts. Provides background for additional advanced economics. Attention to computational issues and general theory.
Teams work on independent projects that apply the course principles.
Extensive form games, general and partial equilibrium economic models, Nash equilibria. Piecewise linear and differential homotopies and curve following. Subdivisions, atlases, regularity, degree, fixed points, stationary points, general and special case algorithms. Applies theories of microeconomics and operations research to decision behavior and mechanism design in market organizations with asymmetric information structures. Forecasting and valuing project cash flows.