経済動学 / Economic Dynamics

News

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Contents

  1. News ... announcements. Read this often!
  2. Contents ... this section.
  3. Course Outline and Goals ... general description of this course.
  4. About Me ... professor contacts.
  5. About This Course ... administrative information.
  6. Links to Homework Assignments ... past and future assignments.
  7. Various resources for examination study ... past examinations.
  8. Previous Updates ... previously posted news.

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 3E401 853-5175
Office hours To be announced
Email

turnbull@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp

Use this address for non-class communications (about my Zemi, etc.)

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, FH25051)
Day/Time Friday, 3rd & 4th (12:15--15:00)
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The lecture schedule is currently out of date and incomplete. It probably won't change much but will be updated soon. Lectures 1 and 2 are accurate. Dates (including holidays and examinations) are correct.

Wk Date Link
1 Oct. 5 Lecture 1: Introduction to Economic Dynamics: Microeconomics and the basics of differential and difference equations.
2 Oct. 12 Lecture 2: Introduction to modern economic growth theory: Robert Solow's pure dynamic model.
3 Oct. 19 Lecture 3: Technological progress in growth models. Exhaustible resources.
4 Oct. 26 Lecture 4
5 Oct. 31 Lecture 5 Note: Wednesday, not Friday due to Gakuensai!
. Nov. 2 No lecture (Gakuensai).
6 Nov. 9 Midterm examination and Lecture 6 (period 4)
7 Nov. 16 Lecture 7
8 Nov. 20 Lecture 8 Note: Tuesday, not Friday due to Labor Thanksgiving Day!
. Nov. 23 No lecture (Thursday classes held due to Labor Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 23).
. Nov. 30 No lecture
10 Dec. 7 Lecture 9
11 Dec. 14 Lecture 10
12 Dec. 21 Final examination

Various resources for examination study

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.

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