Economics 207

Course Outline

Pre-requisites: Economics 103, 105 and Mathematics 111 or 113
 
Required text: Dominick Salvatore, Managerial Economics in a Global Economy 4th edition, Harcourt College Publishers 2001
 
Course Objectives: The objective of this course is to provide students with the tools that managers require in order to interpret the world and to make decisions.  The core of a managerial economics course consists in intermediate microeconomics.  Around this core are added complimentary statistical and quantitative tools.  Calculus is a prerequisite for this course.  Topics covered in this course include Supply and Demand, production theory, market structures, game theory, decision theory, capital budgeting, and regression analysis.
           
Grading:         Final grades will be determined according to the following
                        Two mid-terms (@25% each)                       50%
                        Final Examination                                        35%
                        Cases, Constructive Class Participation
                        and Assignments Preparation                        15%
 
Instructors:
Stéphane Deseau, M.Econ. ( Maine, France), M.Sc. ( Quebec)
Cheryl Fu, B.A. ( Beijing), M.A. (Simon Fraser), Ph.D. candidate
Paul Geddes, B.A. ( Claremont), M.A. (Carleton)
Fatin Jallad, B.A., B.Sc. ( Portland), M.Sc. ( New Mexico), M.Sc. ( Arizona)
Susana Leung, B.B.A., M.A. (Simon Fraser)