RECO 250   Applied Quantitative Methods

University of Nevada,  Resource Economics Department

Fall 2009 Syllabus                 Mail to: Prof. Kilkenny   

Updates as of Wednesday, November 04, 2009 are highlighted in yellow          


FA 233  1-2:15pm

Monday

Wednesday

AUGUST 24 

Homework 1    key1

Exponents, polynomials, linear and power functions; graphs

Edward Tufte: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information  

Michael Parkin: Graphs in Economics

31  

Key 2                 Ch 1-2

Slopes, simultaneous equations; graphs; rules of exponentiation 

SEPTEMBER 9  

Homework 3        Ch 2

    Labor Day (holiday)

9  Applications: demand, supply, equilibria; price determination

14   

 key 3                    Ch 2

Applications: expenditure, income, taxes, CS & PS

21

TAKE HOME key

23 EXAM 1

28                          Ch 3 key 4

Differentiation

OCTOBER 5         Ch 3

Higher order derivatives

12   key 5              Ch 4

Concavity, convexity, and optima

19   homework 6   Ch 4

 Applications: marginal cost, marginal revenue, maximum profit

26  key 6

 26 more applications

28 review

NOVEMBER 2  Ch 5  homework 7      

EXAM 2

Multivariate calculus: 1st and 2nd order partial differentiation  

 9                           Ch 5

Constrained optimization

(Method of Lagrange)

11 Veteran’s Day Holiday

16                          Ch 6

Applications: elasticities, returns to scale Binger&Hoffmann ch10

23                      Ch 7, 9

Exponential & logarithmic functions  

30        Ch 12(259-260)

Matrices and Input-Output Analysis

DECEMBER  7

review

  Final exam

Hans Josling: GAPMINDER

scientific method, null hypothesis, missing variable bias