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<body stylesrc="contact.html" bgcolor="#63F5F5"> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td valign="top">  <h3><a href="home.html" target="contents">ECP 5705</a></h3> <h3><a href="home.html" target="contents">MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS</a><a href="home.html" target="contents"></a></h3> <p> </p> <hr> <ul> <li><a href="contact.html" target="contents"><font size="3"><strong>Contact Info</strong></font></a></li> <li><a href="general.html" target="contents"><font size="3"><strong>General Info</strong></font></a></li> <li><a href="syllabus.html" target="contents"><font size="3"><strong><u>Project </u></strong> </font></a></li> <li><a href="notes.html" target="contents"><font size="3"><strong>Class Notes</strong></font></a></li> </ul> <p> </p> <hr> <h5 align="center"><a href="http://www.cba.ufl.edu/classes/" target="_top"> <strong>Class Websites</strong></a><strong><br> </strong><a href="http://www.cba.ufl.edu/" target="_top"><strong>WCB Home Page</strong></a><strong><br> </strong><a href="http://www.ufl.edu/" target="_top"><strong>UF Home Page</strong></a></h5> </td> <td valign="top" bgcolor="#00FFFF">  <h1 align="center"><font color="#800000">ECP 5705:<strong> Professor Elias Dinopoulos</strong></font></h1> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="left"><font color="#FF0000" size="6"><em><u>Announcements: </u></em> </font></p> <p align="left"><u>Friday, September 26:</u> I am sure that many of you are following the news about the ongoing financial crisis and would like to know what economists are thinking about it. Here are some opinions on the crisis that are summarized in the following short articles from the <i>Economist's Voice</i>. I will be adding more articles in the list depending on the availability of information. This optional material is for your information only and will not appear in any test.</p> <p align="left">                                                                    <b>FINANCIAL CRISIS</b></p> <p align="left">1. <a href="Credit%20Crisis/A-Better-Plan.pdf" target="contents">A Better Plan for Addressing the Financial Crisis</a> by Lucian Arye BebChuk<br> 2.<a href="Credit%20Crisis/Good-Bailouts-and-Bad.pdf" target="contents">Good Bailouts and Bad</a> by David O. Beim<br> 3. <a href="Credit%20Crisis/Please-Think-This-Over.pdf" target="contents">Please Think This Over</a> by Edward Leamer<br> 4. <a href="Credit%20Crisis/Auction-Design.pdf" target="contents">Auction Design Critical to Rescue Plan</a> by Lawrence Ausubell and Peter Cramton<br> 5.<a href="Credit%20Crisis/We-Arenot-Done-Yet.pdf" target="contents">We Aren't Done Yet: Comments on the Financial Bailout</a> by Joseph Stiglitz<br> 6.<a href="Credit%20Crisis/Pitfalls-of-the-Paulson-Plan.pdf" target="contents"> Pitfalls of the Paulson Plan </a>by Jonathan Carmel<br> 7. <a href="Credit%20Crisis/Quashing-the-Financial-Firestorm.pdf" target="contents">Quashing the Financial Firestorm </a>by Aaron Edlin</p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"><u>Sunday, September 14: </u>The following file contains the necessary information on the structure and readings for test 1.</p> <p align="left">                                            <a href="pdf/Test-1-material-F-08.doc" target="contents">Test 1 Information</a></p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left">The following topics have been approved for the team class project:</p> <p align="left">Team 1: International Business: Walt Disney World Theme Park in Brazil<br> Team 2: International Business: Tata Motors Entry in Brazil<br> Team 3: Market Feasibility Study: VeriChip Corporation<br> Team 4: Competitive Strategy: Electronic Video on Demand Delivery with the Apple TV Product<br> Team 5: Competitive Strategy: Live Nation<br> Team 6: Competitive Strategy: Caribou Coffee-Competing Against a Giant in Troubled Times<br> Team 7: Corporate Finance: Wal-Mart<br> Team 8: Corporate Finance: Applied Molecular Genetics (AMGen)</p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"><u>Friday, September 12</u> Mario Faria sent me an article entitled "The Great Lobster Mystery" which illustrates the demand and supply forces that determine the price of lobster. The article is recommended and will not be part of the test material (click <a href="pdf/DemandForLobster.htm" target="contents">here </a>to download article). I addition, the following two files are the electronic versions of the handouts for chapter 5 and will be used on Sunday:  <a href="pdf/Miller-data.xls" target="contents">Miller Data</a>, <a href="pdf/data1-regression.xls" target="contents">In class exercise</a>.</p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><font color="#0000FF">DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS</font><br> <a href="http://www.cba.ufl.edu" target="_top">Warrington College of Business</a><br> <a href="http://www.ufl.edu/" target="_top">University of Florida</a><br> <font size="2">©1998</font></p> <hr> <div align="center"><center> <table border="0" cellpadding="5"> <tr> <td><p align="center"><font size="-2">Website designed by the </font><a href="http://www.cba.ufl.edu/classes/faq.asp" target="_top"><font size="-2">WCB Webmaster</font></a><font size="1">. 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