o HCMG 302: The Economics and Financing of Health Care Delivery Wharton doctoral students enrolled in this course present applied economics research. Internationally, the course covers issues of access to housing and housing informality in developing countries, financial crises arising out of the housing sector, and market-oriented and public policy solutions. Students will be provided with a "core" data set appropriate for addressing the defining question to the capstone course. The increased frequency and severity of pure risk events hinders corporations' abilities to execute strategy and deliver sustainable financial results to stakeholders. OIDD 314: Enabling Technologies The growth of renewable energy could be another source of rapid change, but brings with it a whole new set of technological and policy challenges. Towards the end of the course, we will investigate specific policy questions, allowing us to debate solutions while hearing from policy makers operating in a world of behavioral agents. This course covers models for insurer's losses, and applications of Markov chains. The course will present the standard economic approaches to answering these questions and then explore how answers change when we consider that people act in behavioral ways. For example, I do not know how to solve. o BEPP 236: International Housing Comparisons Our objective is to characterize the unique economic environment, identify effective strategic governance, and management approaches, and explore how appropriate measurement techniques can can inform the policy treatment of nonprofits. While most of the students taking the course are future actuaries, other students interested in applications of statistics may discover in class many fascinating applications of stochastic processes and Markov chains. We devote substantial focus on the practical implementation of effective risk management/financing, given evolving regulatory and governance standards. This course explores the economics and politics of public policy to provide an analytic framework for considering why, how, and with what success/failure government intervenes in a variety of policy areas. This course may be taken concurrently with the prerequisite with instructor permission. As a result, nonprofit organizations as economic decision-makers confront a number of unique challenges to their success and growth. Instead, these are suggestions to help students choose their path. Questions? The course provides an advanced introduction to the theory of contracts and its mixture of foundational theories and applications to fields such as labor, reguindustrial organization. Students will work intensively with data, drawing from examples in business and public policy, to develop the skills to use data analysis to make better decisions. For a student who receives less than 60% on the final exam, the course grade will be equal to the final exam grade and that student will have failed the course. Have a look! If you wish to upgrade your browser you may download Mozilla or Internet Explorer for Windows. This course complements BEPP 811, Risk and Crisis Management, which focuses on how firms can use various types of hedging instruments to manage pure risks (that is BEPP811's emphasis is primarily on the demand side of markets for pure risks whereas BEPP 812 examines the supply side of these markets). The units are composed of the following chapters in the main course text: Unit 1: The Evolution of Psychology: From Speculation to Science, Unit 2: The Biological Bases of Behaviour. We will pay special attention to recent topics, such as partnerships with the private sector, enterprise zones, the role of technology, environmental challenges, and real estate policies that promote housing affordability, such as rent control and inclusionary zoning. This course is the usual entry point in the actuarial science program. The ASP is intended to generate an interchange of ideas and perspectives and to provide the student with an opportunity to pursue a narrow topic in depth. Our focus is primarily on explaining the products and institutions that will serve you better when making decisions in your future careers and lives. Weiten, W. (2001). The course features a wide array of speakers in finance, government and academia who contribute their perspectives to pressing issues of mortgage market design. The course materials include a student manual, study guide and a quiz package. Main topics include annuities, loans and bonds; basic principles of life contingencies and determination of annuity and insurance benefits and premiums. In addition, we explore opportunities for corporate growth as well as public/private partnerships. Over the last several decades, energy markets have become some of the most dynamic markets of the world economy. Similarly, the value that firms create by designing and marketing good products is at risk from a variety of sources. We will explore public policy surrounding risk management and how the public and private sector can successfully work together to build resilience, particularly to changing risks. Economists' typical interests in strategic and market-based interactions raise particular methodological challenges and opportunities. Main topics include annuities, loans and bonds; basic principles of life contingencies and determination of annuity and insurance benefits and premiums. Doing so results in risk-adjusted returns (or return on risk-adjusted capital) that exceed the cost of capital. We will delve into the three pillars of risk analysis: risk assessment, risk management, and risk communication. BEPP 220: Behavioral Economics In addition, we have three informal suggested tracks. That is, they must compete for funding, human resources, and consumers of their services, they must manage and invest their resources efficiently, and they must innovate new products and services over time. Attention also is given to various executive compensation techniques (including restricted stock and stock options) and planning for various employee benefits. Format: Lecture and discussion, midterm and final. The focus is on the "big picture" of global economic developments and the evolution of economic thought over the last one hundred years. The compound model is then used to establish the distribution of losses. While most of the students taking the course are future actuaries, other students interested in applications of statistics may discover in class many fascinating applications of stochastic processes and Markov chains. The final grade in PSYC 289 depends upon student performance on unit quizzes and on the final exam. are currently at the center of the policy debate in many other industrialized countries as well. Contact the Political Science Department. Similarly, the value that firms create by designing and marketing good products is at risk from a variety of sources. Lecture with discussion required. The focus is on the "big picture" of global economic developments and the evolution of economic thought over the last one hundred years. This course will cover the economic foundations of business strategy and decision-making in market environments with other strategic actors and less than full information, as well as advanced pricing strategies.