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Notes for Economics 200c*

MATHEMATICAL ECONOMICS Lecture Notes 1

1 I am especially grateful to Juergen Jung, Mike Treuden, and Nathaniel Throckmorton for their tremendous contributions to these notes. I also thank Michael Kaganovich and Eric Leeper for their guidance and for giving me the opportunity to develop and teach this course during graduate school. Several classes of Indiana and Auburn University graduate students provided suggestions and corrections...

Economic Models in Development Economics

This paper is concerned to explore and evaluate the use of mathematical models in development economics, particularly “computable general equilibrium” (CGE) models. Such models have become an increasingly important tool of analysis in development economics. They represent an intriguing and powerful device for making predictions about the behavior of complex national economies in response to a v...

Notes for a Course in Development Economics

Open a book — any book —on the economics of developing countries, and it will begin with the usual litany of woes. Developing countries, notwithstanding the enormous strides they have made in the last few decades, display fundamental economic inadequacies in a wide range of indicators. Levels of physical capital per person are small. Nutrition levels are low. Other indicators of human capital s...

Notes on Some Literature in Experimental Economics

These notes provide a guide and some comments on a portion of the literature of experimental economics. They represent thoughts and criticisms. developed in the course of a seminar in experimental economics at Purdue University. The references do not constitute an e�ensive bibliography. For an excellent summary of the experimental oligopoly literature� the interested reader is urged to consult ...