Masters Programmes in the School of Economics, UWE
School of Economics,
Bristol Business School,
University of the West of England, Bristol
UWE Masters homepage
Economic Theory and Applications
Module Leader: J Paul Dunne
This page contains links to information in Adobe pdf format. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer,
download it from here
UNDER CONSTRUCTION -Please check regularly and note some links will not work
Module handbook in pdf format is here
Notes and Exercises
Some simpler notes from a u/g course I ran on
International Managerial Economics (using Mansfield's Managerial Economics are also referenced below. These may be useful as background/reminders.
Information
Assessed work is here
and the deadline to hand it in is 10th Jan 2008. Resit coursework is 2 questions
from the January 2008 exam paper, one from section A and one from section B. See Handbook.
Mock exam paper is here
January exam paper is here
Resources
Here are some useful intermediate economics sites which contain quizzes to help with background study.
Courtesy of Economics Network
Microeconomics
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Online quizzes for economics by
Kevin Hinde, Northumbria University
Six short self-assessment exercises here on "Information problems and regulation", "Introduction to industrial economics", "Game theory", "Production and costs", "Monopoly (a diagrammatic approach), and "Monopoly and Oligopoly (a mathematical approach)". JavaScript is used to give detailed feedback.
- Prices and markets: lecture notes and questions by
Ian Wooton, Stewart Dunlop, Strathclyde University
Seventeen sets of lecture slides for a 2003/4 course are collected on this page in PDF format, as well as problem sets (short answer and True/False) with answers in a separate file. There are also some sample questions from past exams.
- Microeconomics with calculus: [online tutorials]
by Daniel S. Christiansen, Albion College http://web.archive.org/web/20051122061752/http://www.albion.edu/econ/christiansen/micwcalc/
Created to accompany an intermediate microeconomics course, these PDF files include text, equations and graphs, with hyperlinks to help the reader navigate around each of the 13 tutorials. The files also include interactive multiple-choice quizzes. This link is to Archive.org's copy of the site, dating from November 2005
Macroeconomics
- Biz/ed question bank - economics by Biz/ed
This archive uses Javascript to present feedback on multi-choice questions on 40 different topics, with varying numbers of questions in each. Many of the questions involve clickable images, with students using mouse clicks to indicate equilibria. Topics include: markets, firms, wages, national income, money, unemployment and inflation, government, and international.
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Flashcards for [Mankiw's Macroeconomics] by N. Gregory Mankiw et al.
This part of the textbook companion site uses Shockwave to administer tests on definitions of key terms. After selecting a textbook chapter, the student is given a stack of cards which link terms to their definitions. These cards can be dragged into a "learned" area, and when the student is ready the site challenges them to match the terms with the definitions they think they have learned.
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[Online quizzes for Mankiw's Macroeconomics] by N. Gregory Mankiw et al.
Free registration is required to view this part of the companion site, where there is an online quiz for each of the 19 chapters of the textbook.
Game Theory
- Online quizzes for economics by Kevin Hinde, Northumbria University
Six short self-assessment exercises here on "Information problems and regulation", "Introduction to industrial economics", "Game theory", "Production and costs", "Monopoly (a diagrammatic approach), and "Monopoly and Oligopoly (a mathematical approach)". JavaScript is used to give detailed feedback.
- True/false quizzes for "Finite Mathematics" topic: game theory by
Stefan Waner, Steven R. Costenoble, Hofstra University
The test contains 20 true/false questions. The score is calculated as you go along. This site accompanies the authors' textbook, "Finite Mathematics," one chapter of which is on game theory.
- Game theory self test: finding equilibria by
Mike Shor, Vanderbilt University
This is a five-question self-test in which the user has to answer multiple-choice questions about equilibria in games that are set out in normal form.
Principles -sort of...
Updated by JPD 25-Nov-2007 05:25 PM