Economics 201 --- Introduction to Economic Analysis
Fall 2006
Reed College --- Professor Jeffrey Parker

Cases of the Day:

• Aug 30: Airline Safety Choices
• Sept 1: Markets, Scalpers, and Queues: The Economics of Event Tickets
• Sept 11: Oil Prices and Consumer Demand
• Sept 15: Costs and Production in Dairy Farming
• Sept 22: The Washington Sales Tax and the Vancouver Retail Industry
• Sept 25: Rent Controls and Gains from Exchange
• Sept 29: The New York City Ice Trust
• Oct 2: Microsoft's Monopoly
• Oct 4: The Global Lysine Price-Fixing Conspiracy of 1992-95
• Oct 9: The Academic Labor Market
• Oct 13: Risk and the Structure of Interest Rates
• Oct 23: Tracing the Economic Effects of Oil Prices
• Oct 25: Why Is Health Insurance So Expensive?
• Oct 27: Profiting from Innovation
• Oct 30: The Grand Banks Fishery
• Nov 1: The Henshaw Estate Becomes Pitman Park
• Nov 8: The Great Depression
• Nov 10: Utility, Happiness, and Macroeconomics
• Nov 13: Money and Inflation in Argentina
• Nov 20: Are Income Levels Converging Internationally?
• Nov 22: A Tale of Two Cities
• Dec 4: Can the IS/LM Model Explain Macroeconomic Fluctuations?

Assignments and Projects:

• Double Oral Auction Lab Report (Due: Sept 6)
• Problem Set #1 (Due: Sept 13) (Solutions)
• Problem Set #2 (Due: Sept 20) (Partner assignments) (Solutions)
• First Economic Naturalist Assignment (Due: Oct 6) (Topics presented)
• Problem Set #3 (Due: Oct 11) (Partner assignments) (Experiment results) (Solutions)
• Optional Practice Problem Set #3.5
• Lab Report on Product Quality Experiment (Due: Nov 1) (Experiment results)
• Group Research Projects (Presented in lab: Nov 15)
• Second Economic Naturalist Assignment (Due: Nov 22) (Topics presented)
• Problem Set #4 (Due: Nov 29) (Solutions)
• Problem Set #5 (Due: Dec 6) (Solutions)