経済動学 / Economic Dynamics

Last update: Fri Nov 10 09:57:09 2023

Contents

  1. Contents ... this section.

  2. News ... announcements. Read this often!

  3. Course Outline and Goals ... general description of this course.

  4. About Me ... professor contacts.

  5. About This Course ... administrative information.

  6. Lecture Schedule ... list of lecture topics and resources (videos, slides)

  7. Links to Homework Assignments ... past and future assignments.

  8. Various resources for examination study ... past examinations.

  9. Previous Updates ... previously posted news.


News

Fri Nov 10 09:57:09 2023

Fri Nov 10 09:32:13 2023

Fri Oct 27 02:04:00 2023

Fri Oct 20 02:37:25 2023

Fri Oct 13 05:33:13 2023

Wed Oct 11 16:55:34 2023

Wed Oct 11 16:07:23 JST 2023

Mon Oct 9 13:21:03 JST 2023

Fri Oct 6 10:33:51 JST 2023

Thu Oct 5 23:42:56 JST 2023

Thu Oct 5 22:19:39 JST 2023


Course Outline and Goals

Economic Dynamics studies the "motion" of economic processes: disequilibrium behavior in convergence to equilibrium, growth, irreversible processes like consumption of exhaustible resources, and the acquisition and use of information in dynamic games and finance.

Goals of the course include:

Other topics will be covered according to class interest, time constraint, and the whims of the instructor.


About Me

Stephen Turnbull, Associate Professor

Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering

Room

Phone

Office

3F1234

853-5091

Lab

3E406

Office hours

To be announced

Email

turnbull@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp

Use this address for non-class communications

Home Page

http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/

Schedule

http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/schedule/


About This Course

社会工学類 / College of Policy and Planning Science

経済動学 / Economic Dynamics (FH27041)

Day/Time

Friday, 1st & 2nd (08:40--11:25)

Room

3L202

Home Page

http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/Teach/Dynamics/

Questions

dynamics-help@turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp

Homework

dynamics-hw@turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp

Texts:

None required. Students who would like to study mathematical treatments should request advice from the instructor.

Optional: Kleinberg & Easley, Networks, Crowds, and Markets

Optional: Shone, Introduction to Economic Dynamics


Lecture Schedule

The lecture schedule is currently incomplete. It probably won't change much but will be updated soon. Lectures 1 and 2 are accurate. Dates (including holidays) are correct.

Wk

Month Day

Link

1

Oct. 6

2

Oct. 13

  • Lecture 2, Part 1: Introduction to modern economic growth theory: Robert Solow's pure dynamic model. (video 2-1 / PDF 2)

  • Lecture 2, Part 2: Facts about economic growth and applications of Solow's model. (video 2-2 / PDF 2 from page 48)

3

Oct. 20

  • Lecture 3, Part 1: Renewable Resources and the Fishery (video 3-1 1:05:01 / PDF 3-1)

  • Lecture 3, Part 2: The Competitive Fishery (video 3-2 34:43 / PDF 3-2)

  • Lecture 3, Part 3: When the Model Isn't Good Enough Yet (video 3-3 19:08 / PDF 3-3)

4

Oct. 27

  • Lecture 4, Part 1: Introduction to Differential and Difference Equations (video 4-1 47:00 / PDF 4-1)

5

Nov. 1

Lecture 5: Note: Wednesday, not Friday due to Gakuensai!

  • Lecture 5, Part 1: Pure Exhaustible Resources like Oil (video 5-1 1:17:27 / PDF 5-1)

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Nov. 3

No lecture (Gakuensai).

6

Nov. 10

Lecture 6

7

Nov. 17

Lecture 7

8

Nov. 24

No lecture (Thursday classes held due to Labor Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 23).

9

Dec. 1

Lecture 8

10

Dec. 8

Lecture 9

11

Dec. 15

Lecture 10

12

Dec. 22

Reserved for final examination, actual use unclear


Various resources for examination study

There are no examinations this year because the course is entirely online. This section remains for your self-testing and if you're curious.

The following resources contain sample and actual test questions for midterms and finals, with sample solutions for some of the questions. These solutions are samples; they are not necessarily complete, and not everything in every solution is necessary for full credit.

The testbank is the primary resource. It is intended to contain all previous test questions (some of which are no longer relevant), some questions which have not been used yet. There may be some additional information in the past examinations below.


Previous Updates

Old news items from last year are left in place below in case you're interested in the flow of this course. Previous years' old news will be removed at some point.

Sat Dec 26 02:52:06 2020

Fri Dec 25 15:54:52 2020

Fri Dec 25 11:55:18 2020

Thu Dec 24 23:52:58 2020

Tue Nov 26 11:56:18 2019

Tue Nov 26 01:53:15 2019

Fri Dec 21 13:43:39 2018

Fri Dec 14 15:42:36 2018

Sun Nov 18 19:14:10 2018

Fri Nov 16 15:44:09 2018

Fri Nov 16 15:36:45 2018

Fri Nov 9 13:20:37 2018

Wed Oct 31 12:02:14 2018

Fri Oct 26 02:13:55 2018

Thu Oct 18 18:54:08 2018

Thu Oct 11 01:01:48 2018

Wed Oct 10 13:48:40 2018

Fri Oct 5 16:07:28 2018