Course outline: Managerial Economics MBA (Cotrugli), Janaury 2012
Course handouts: see Programme Office
Day 1
1. Incentives matter*
2. Understanding cost*
3. Market equilibrium*
4. Price discrimination*
An Economist’s Passage to India (March 2011)
Instructions: complete the assignment questions
5. Prediction markets
Coles, Peter, Lakhani, Karim and McAfee, Andrew, “Prediction Markets at Google” Harvard Business School 9-607-088, August 20, 2007
Day 2
6. Macroecomics I Monetary*
7. Macroeconomics II Fiscal*
8. Foreign exchange
Mihir A. Desai, Yanjun Wang, Christina B. Pham, Kathleen Luchs, “Foreign Exchange Markets and Transactions”, Harvard Business School Case No. 205016, February 2007
9. Behavioural finance*
“Sun: A CEO’s Last Stand”, Business Week, July 26th 2004
10. MPC Simulation EU
Day 3
11. Probability theory
Krasker, William, “Freemark Abbey Winery”, Harvard Business School Case No. 9-181-027, March 24, 1994
12. Confidence intervals and significance testing*
Evans, Anthony J., “Taxi for Professor Evans” December 2011
13. Correlation and linear regression*
Evans, Anthony J., “The Suitcase Case” December 2011
14. QM case workshop
15. Review session
