Audio and Video Lectures in Applied Economics
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The credit crunch : history, hormones and trust
This 22 minute audio podcast from the University of Cambridge explores the credit crunch from an interdisciplinary perspective. With contributions from John Coates, a neuroscientist and former Wall Street Trader, Martin Daunton, an economic historian and Alan Macfarlane, a social anthropologist. It looks at how the crude use of historical analogies can cloud our understanding of the credit crunch, how hormones can affect the decision-makers who control the global financial system and how the breakdown in trust is threatening the world's financial stability. Users will need a Flash based audio player to listen to the podcast online or they can download it in a variety of formats.
Preston McAfee : Why are prices so bizarre?
In this RealPlayer video, R. Preston McAfee, Johnson Professor of Business Economics and Management, discusses how companies determine prices. Why do grocery stores advertise sale prices on items such as milk, paper towels, and cola, even though the demand and cost of production didn't change. Why are turkeys cheapest just before Thanksgiving, when demand is highest? These paradoxes have a common resolution.
Beyond Freakonomics : new musings on the economics of everyday life
Delivered at Princeton University in September 2006, this hour-long lecture by "Freakonomics" author Steven Levitt recalls some of his experience as an economics student, researcher and lecturer. He discusses how the value of advertising is assessed, the economics of prostitution, real estate sales and how altruism can be understood as maximising behaviour. The lecture is available as audio or video for portable players, streamable RealPlayer for desktop viewing, or a broadcast-quality video on request.
Crisis of credit
The Crisis of Credit is an 11 minute animation explaining the origins of the credit crunch in the United States. It covers the interaction of homeowners, mortgage lenders, investors and financial institutions that produced the global financial crisis. It provides simple explanations of a number of complex terms and systems, delivering an effective introduction to the topic. Users will need a Flash based video player to watch the animation.
Applied econometrics
This course page is part of the "Bob's Economic Resources" site. It includes course documents in Word format, including "Estimating a Regression Equation using Excel," and eight Excel worksheets, including exercises and answers. Two short videos show how to use Excel for basic transformations of time-series data and using the Regression plug-in.
NOW with Bill Moyers: the Enron story
This section of the "NOW with Bill Moyers" television program website is devoted to the Enron story. It includes transcripts and audio clips from news stories on National Public Radio.
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