Economics 305:
Private Finance
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Instructor:
Office:
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Chris
Bell
157 Karpen Hall
Fall 2001:
MWF 2-3pm;
TTH 10-11pm
or almost any time from
10am-4pm by appointment.
(course next offered Spring 2002)
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E-mail:
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bell@unca.edu
828-251-6552
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ECON 102 (or higher); ECON 210 or MATH
155 (or higher); and junior level status.
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| Meets:
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Spring 2002:
TuTh 8-9:25am
TuTh 9:40-10:40 pm (snow
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Required texts:
Plus one of the following (tentative -- if Kolb is not required):
, A Random
Walk Down Wall Street
Shiller, Irrational
Exuberance
Glassman & Hassett, Dow
36,000
Thaler, The Winner's Curse
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Economics 305 is required for the Management Department’s Business
Management & Administration and Financial Management tracks; it is an option
for the Program in Monetary Economics and Finance.
The objectives of this course are to: develop your ability to recognize and
understand the stock market investment issues in your life, other courses and
the news; provide practice in discipline, organization and the accomplishment of
projects; improve your math, analytic thinking and communication skills.
After successfully completing this course you will understand: the risks
inherent in financial decision-making; the relationship between risk and
expected return; the elementary probability theory needed to understand the
relationship between risk and expected return; the power of compound interest;
the operation of the stock markets; the calculation of asset prices and returns;
the importance of minimizing transaction costs; the importance of minimizing or
deferring taxes; the fundamental, technical and efficient market approaches to
stock investing; the rationale for and principles of portfolio management; the
Capital Asset Pricing Model.
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You may find the following resources useful in this and future economics
courses. Pages written with this course in mind include:
Ramsey Library's pages include:
- Ramsey Library The
library's main page.
- EconLit
Search more than 620 academic economics publications by key word, author or
title. This is the place to start your literature review.
Available only on computers on the UNCA campus.
- The
Electronic Resources Page Directory to the library's electronic
resources; includes a key to the icons used to summarize the degree of
access to the libraries various online resources.
- Citing
Electronic Resources How to reference World Wide Web, CD-ROM, and other
electronic resources in term papers.
- World Wide Web
Resources Links to guides, web directories, search engines and more.
- Statistics
Resources Links to a good cross-section of general and economic
statistical sites.
Four excellent non-UNCA sources of economic statistics:
- Google My favorite search
engine.
- Uncle Sam Links
to a large number of federal government resources.
- STAT-USA "One-stop internet
browsing for business, trade, and economic information." Choose State
of the Nation for U.S. economic and financial data, or Globus &
NTDB for international trade data and market reports. This proprietary
resource is accessible at no charge from any on-campus computer with Web
access (you must subscribe to access it off-campus).
- ECONOmagic.com Links to
downloadable economic time series. The files are in a format that is
great for downloads but not visually appealing!
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Bell, Department of Economics, UNC Asheville].
All rights reserved. Revised: September 08, 2003
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