Econ 5233 Math for Economic Analysis
Summer 2009

 

Contact Information
                        Office Location:  425 WCOB
                        Phone: 575-6226
                        email: cdeck@walton.uark.edu
 

Course Information
         Course Syllabus

          Course Description - This course is designed to provide students with the basic
        (though not exhaustive) set of mathematical tools necessary to study economics
         at the graduate level. 

Readings
Mathematical Tools for Economics by Turkington (textbook)

Additional Reference – Mathematics for Economists by Simon and Blume 

Additional Reference – Mathematical Economics 2nd ed.  by Baldani, Bradfield, and Turner  

Additional Reference – Mathematical Methods for Economic Theory: a tutorial
                                by Osborne (
http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/osborne/MathTutorial/
)

Additional Reference – Linear Algebra Toolkit by Bogacki
                                        (
http://www.math.odu.edu/~bogacki/lat/)


Class Schedule

Room
(WJWH)

Day

Class 1
(8:15-9:30)

Class 2
(9:45-11:00)

Class 3
(11:15-12:00)

403

M (8/3)

Matrix Algebra (Ch 1)

Matrix Algebra (Ch 1)

Problems
403

T (8/4)

Linear Systems of Equations (Ch 2)

Linear Economic Models (Ch 3)

Problems
403

R (8/5)

Eigenvalues (Ch 4)

Definiteness (Ch 4)

Problems
403

F (8/6)

Univariate Calculus

Multivariate Calculus (Ch 5)

Problems
427

M (8/10)

Multivariate Calculus (Ch 5)

Integration (Ch 8)

Problems
427

T (8/11)

Integration (Ch 8)

Probability and Statistics

Problems
303

R (8/13)

Midterm Exam

403

F (8/14)

Unconstrained Optimization (Ch 6)

Equality Constrained Optimization (Ch 6)

Problems
403

M (8/17)

Inequality Constrained Optimization (Ch 6)

Inequality Constrained Optimization (Ch 6)

Problems
403

T (8/18)

Comparative Statics (Ch 7)

Comparative Statics (Ch 7)

Problems
403

W (8/19)

Difference Equations (Ch 10)

Discrete Time Models (Ch 10)

Problems
403

F (8/21)

Final Exam

 

Other Items

Here are the exams for the 2008 class, which used the same textbook:  08-X1, 08-X2, 08-X3

Here are the exams from the 2007 class, which used a different book and had a different ordering of the topics: 07-X1, 07-X2, 07-X3, and 07-X4.