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ScientificWorkplace is installed in the stat lab rm 236 Giannini on the left-most Windows computer -- viewed as if standing in the doorway.  The host name of the computer is gia236a.are.berkeley.edu, although that name is not prominently displayed on the machine.

Office Hours:

Larry Karp: Fridays 9-10am or by appointment, 206 Giannini Hall
Christian Traeger: Thursdays 5-6pm or by appointment, 322 Giannini Hall

Class Notes:

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· Learning

· A two-period version of Krugman's model

· Notes on Krugman's model

· Marc Mangel's notes

· Larry Karp's "Depreciation erodes the Coase Conjecture", European Economic Review 40 : 473 - 490 (1996).

· Non-convex Control Problems

· Hyperbolic discounting

· Time, Risk, and Uncertainty

Problem sets and solutions:

Problem set 1 (due Sept 9)

Problem set 2  Paper needed for problem set  Hint/solution for the first problem (due Sept 16)

Problem set 3  Gams file erc Gams file erm (due Sept 23)   Solution PS 3

Problem set 4  (due October 9)

Problem set 5  (Due October 28)  Matlab predator_prey  Matlab prey  Solution PS 5

Problem set 6  (Due November 18)  Solution PS 6

Old exams:

exam 2001     exam 2002  exam 2003   exam 2004 and key  exam 2006 and key

Old lecture notes from previous years:

Part 1: Basic Ideas of ODE's

Part 2: Calculus of Variations

Part 3: The Maximum Principle

Part 4: Uncertainty

Part 5: Dynamic Programming

Part 6: Two Schochastic Control Problems

Part 7: Limit Cycles in Intertemporal Adjustment Models

Part 8: "Nonconvex" Control Problems

Part 9:  Linear Control Problems

Part 10: Dynamic Games Reading List for Games