RECO 250   Applied Quantitative Methods

University of Nevada,  Resource Economics Department

Fall 2009 Syllabus                 Mail to: Prof. Kilkenny   

Updates as of Monday, November 16, 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      key 4           Ch 3

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

NOV  2  hmwk 7  Ch 5     

EXAM 2

Multivariate calculus

9Reshaping Our World   Ch5

multivariate applications

11 Veteran’s Day Holiday

16   homework 8  Ch 6

Constrained optimization  (“Lagrange”) 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

 

 

Monday Dec 14

noon-2pm Final exam

 

Hans Josling: GAPMINDER

scientific method, null hypothesis, missing variable bias