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Econ. 410 - Managerial Economics
Professor Edwin T. Burton
 Announcements:
Final Examination -- Monday, December 20th, 1999, 2PM - 5PM
You are responsible for all of the reading on the final exam including:
The six chapters 5-9 and 12 in Milgrom and Roberts
Net Worth
Information Rules
Schleifer and Vishny
Obviously some things are more important than others. Very important are:
the wage equation chapter in Milgrom and Roberts (Chapter 7), Information
Rules, and Schleifer-Vishny.
You are responsible for all topics covered in lecture and reading.
Information since the mid-term exam is much more important (than information
before the mid-term) and may be as much as 75 to 80 percent of the final.
Syllabus
Topical Outline of the Course:
I. Incentive Contracting
a. Game Theory Notions - Adverse Selection & Moral Hazard
b. The Pure Theory of Insurance
c. Designing Incentive Contracts
Reading: Chapters 5-9, 12 in Milgrom and Roberts
II. Financial Accounting, Valuations
a. Cash flow concepts
b. Managed earnings
c. Purchase versus pooling
d. Valuing a firm using cash flow analysis
Reading: none (at present)
III. Valuing Technology Companies
Reading: Information Rules, Net Worth
IV. Corporate Governance
Reading: Schliefer and Vishny
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Final Examination -- Monday, December 20th, 1999, 2PM - 5PM
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