Economics 590: Introduction to Quantitative Economics, Fall 2007
Instructor: Jeremy Sandford
Office hours: M 4-5pm, F 8-9am in 335L Gatton
Lecture: TH 12:30-1:45pm, 308 B&E
Exam dates: Tuesday, October 23rd (in class), and Tuesday, December 11th from 1-3pm (BE 208)
syllabus, set notation appendix, notes on how to write proofs
Schedule
Tuesday, December 11: Final exam, 1-3pm, room 208
Thursday, December 6: dynamic programming examples, HW8
Tuesday, December 4: dynamic programming examples, applications
Thursday, November 29: dynamic programming
Tuesday, November 27: growth model, steady states
Reading:Manuelli lecture notes, see esp. chapter 2.
Homework 8, not collected. Some answers
Tuesday, November 20, Thursday, November 22: No meeting
Thursday, November 15: Dynamic optimization, the growth model
Tuesday, November 13: Kuhn-Tucker theorem, concavity and optimization
Thursday, November 8: Inequality constrained optimization
Homework 7, answer sketches
Tuesday, November 6: Equality constrained optimization
Thursday, November 1: Equality constrained optimization
Tuesday, October 30: Equality-constrained optimization
Homework 6, answer sketches
Thursday, October 25: Unconstrained optimization
Tuesday, October 23: Midterm, Answers
Thursday, October 18: no meeting
Tuesday, October 16: review
Thursday, October 11: (semi)definiteness of matrices
Correction of a proof done in class
Tuesday, October 9: quasiconvexity, hessians and concavity
Thursday, October 4: Convexity, quasiconvexity
Tuesday, October 2: Derivatives as linear approximations, functions from R^n to R^m
Homework 5, answer sketches
Thursday, September 27: Derivatives in R^n, directional derivatives
Tuesday, September 25: Limits of functions, formal definition of derivative on the real line
Thursday, September 20: Economic applications of sequences and series
Homework 4, answer sketches
Tuesday, September 18: Sequences, notions of convergence, Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem
Thursday, September 13: Weierstrass theorem, examples and applications
Tuesday, September 11: Open and closed sets and their properties, finite, countable, and uncountable sets
Homework 3, answer sketches
Thursday, September 6: Euclidean metric, open sets
Tuesday, September 4: Ordered sets, suprema and
infima, metrics
Homework 2, answer sketches
Thursday, August 30: Functions and some properties
Tuesday, August 28: Complements of sets, convex sets,
functions
Homework
1, answer sketches
Thursday, August 23: Introduction, sets and their properties