Employment, inflation, international payments, monetary policy, and fiscal policy, all in the Canadian economy. Prerequisite: ECON 101 or consent of Department. Not open to students with credit in ECON 204.
Fall Term 2022Analysis of public sector expenditures in Canada. The rationale for government spending and the problems in the provision of public services. Prerequisites: ECON 109 and ECON 281.
Fall Term 2022 Winter Term 2023Designed for majors and Honors students in Economics. Theories of stabilization policy; expectations; the government budget constraint; inflation and unemployment; business cycles and growth; theories of aggregate consumption, investment, money demand, and money supply. Prerequisites: ECON 109, ECON 281, 282 and 299 or equivalent, and MATH 156 or equivalent.
Winter Term 2023 Winter Term 2023Analysis of the objectives, instruments and methods of macroeconomics policy using contemporary macroeconomics theory and examples from the policy experience of Canada and other nations. Prerequisites: ECON 109 and ECON 385.
Fall Term 2022Computer programming for the statistical analysis of data in economics with focus on SAS, R, and Python. Prerequisites: ECON 109 and ECON 299 or equivalent.
Fall Term 2022 Winter Term 2023Computer programming for the statistical analysis of data in economics with focus on SAS, R, and Python.
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