Welcome to the ECN 607 page. This will be the spot to check out the syllabus, practice tests, and links to I.O. data and organizations.

Course Syllabus
Assignment Sheet for Course Paper

COPIES OF PAPERS PRESENTED FINAL WEEK BY PH.D. STUDENTS

• Annie
• Chang
• Erica
• Lisa
• Mark
• Nick
• Nino

LINKS TO OTHER STUFF ON THIS PAGE

• Sample tests
• I.O. Organizations on the Web
• I.O. Data on the Web
• Other Interesting I.O. Links
• Professional Economist Links
• General News and Information

SAMPLE TESTS

• Sample Midterm

I.O. ORGANIZATIONS ON THE WEB

• Federal Trade Commision (FTC)
• Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice
• Federal Communications Commission
• U.S. Department of Commerce
• U.S. Department of Transportation
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• Small Business Administration

I.O. DATA SOURCES

• U.S. Business Data from the U.S. Census
• County Business Patterns from the U.S. Census which provides annual business statistics at the county, state and U.S. level.
• FedStats which provides access to U.S. databases that are online and free.
• Company Information from UO Library Links (Disclosure gives information on U.S. companies, while Worldscope gives information on international firms).
• U.S Corporate Tax Statistics from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.
• Online Data at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
• Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes
• Economagic page: Over 100,000 economic data series available free online

OTHER INTERESTING I.O. LINKS

• Antitrust Site at Vanderbilt with interesting online merger simulation.
• Prof. Al Roth's (Economist at Harvard) Web Page on Game Theory and Experimental Economics
• Prof. Jeffrey MacKie-Mason's (Economist at Michigan) Web Page on Telecommunications Industry and Regulation
• An Interesting Site on Law and Economics

LINKS FOR PROFESSIONAL ECONOMISTS

• Directory of links to all PhD economics departments in the U.S. and Canada
• Directory of economics departments, institutes, and research centers around the world
• Links to economics journals
• Job Openings for Economists
• Cheap, but really good advice from David Levine on being a professional economist
• Advice on how to referee papers from the Canadian Journal of Economics webpage.

GENERAL ECONOMIC NEWS AND INFORMATION

• The Economist
• The Financial Times
• The Wall Street Journal
• The New York Times
• News Link
• CNN Financial Network
• Business Week
• The Washington Post