Seattle Pacific
University
School of Business and
Economics, Douglas Downing
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Dr.
Douglas A.
Downing
Associate Professor of Economics
Office: 221 McKenna Hall . . . . E-mail: ddowning@spu.edu
Campus Address: 3307 3rd Avenue West, Seattle, WA 98119
Phone: (206) 281-2890 . . . .
FAX: (206) 281-2733
About
Doug
Downing
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BUS3700 Quantitative Analysis
Some of the BUS3700 files have been moved to the
new web page. Click here to reach that page, then choose BUS3700
from the Classes menu.
Syllabus
Exam grading scale
Exam 3 answers
Practice Exam 3 answers
Practice assignment problems 4 to 8 answers
Multiple regression practice worksheet answers
Regression practice problems answers 1 to 3
Practice Assignment problems 4 to 8
GDP Data for computer assignment 2
Hints for Buckeye Power Case
Housing sale data for computer assignment 2
Multiple Regression analysis
diagrams on extrapolation and identification problem
examples of scatter diagrams
Simple Regression analysis
Transportation problem
Inventory decisions
Notes for second exam
Notes for computer assignment 1
Solving Equation Systems
Matrices
Linear Programming
Linear Programming sample problem: optimal diet
Linear Programming 2
Linear Programming: furniture profit-maximizing
Linear Programming: furniture problem shadow prices
Linear Programming practice problems 5,6
Linear Programming practice problem 7
Linear Programming practice problem 8
Linear programming: practice exam 2 answers
Shadow price practice problems
Linear Programming Problems - exam 2 graphs
question 2
question 3
Notes for first exam
Revenue Maximization and Derivatives
Maximization with Derivatives, part 2
Derivative quiz answers
Maximization with Derivatives, part 3
Concave up and concave down curves
Maximization with Derivatives, part 4
Practice exam 1 answers
profit maximizing practice exercises
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ECN2101 Microeconomics
Information for this course has been transferred to the
new page. Click here.
Market simulation
Syllabus
Exam Grading Scale
Discussion board / Blackboard
Policy recommendation questions for study group discussion/
threaded discussion
China trade article, Seattle Times, November 19, 2003
agriculture article, Seattle Times, August 27, 2003
Governor Locke - welfare refrom, Seattle Times, October 8, 2003
Fish article, Seattle Times, May 15, 2003
African Growth and Opportunity Act, frequently asked questions
interview with Hernando de Soto
Take home question, final exam
income transfer programs diagram
Readings on welfare reform
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Seattle Times, August 5, 2002: Welfare Reform
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Seattle Times, March 3, 2002: Fight Poverty, Not just Welfare
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Seattle Times, May 15, 2002: Improved system needs a few tweaks
Material for Exam 3
exam 3 answers
review quiz for exam 3
Oligopoly and Antitrust laws
Reading: Judge's decision on Microsoft Antitrust Case, November 2002
Labor and capital markets
externalities, the environment, and resources
international trade
world production possibility frontier example
exchange rate determination diagram
John Wesley sermon: The Use of Money
Material for Exam 2
Exam 2 answers
Exam 2 take-home question
online review quiz for exam 2
Opportunity cost
MC/AC/AVC diagram
MC/AC/AVC/FC/VC
Efficiency of perfectly competitive market economy
Centrally controlled economies
Monopoly diagram
Monopolies
Material for Exam 1
Answers to exam 1
online review quiz for exam 1
Introduction to microeconomics: resource allocation
Production possibility frontier diagram
Adam Smith
Supply and Demand Diagrams
Supply and demand
Elasticity
Agriculture
Agriculture worksheet answers
Excise tax diagram
Marginal utility
Market Simulation
Microeconomics class market simulation description
Results of market simulation auction,
10/29/2003
Results of trading, 11/17/2003
decription of electronic trading system (for May 21)
Results of computer trading, November 24, 2003
results of class vote
The economics of the market simulation: summary
Mankiw text
SPU Library: Business and Economics resource page
ECN2101
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BUS6171
Quantitative Methods
Syllabus
Assignment grading scale
Introduction, Polls, Descriptive and Inferential Statistics, Coin
Tossing
Descriptive Statistics
Data for Assignment 1
scatter graph answers for assignment 1
Probability: basic principles
Dice outcomes
Probability: counting outcomes
Hypergeometric distribution formula
Random Variables
Binomial distribution, Hypergeometric distribution, law of large
numbers
Normal distribution curve
Normal distribution properties
Statistical inference
Confidence Intervals
Hypothesis testing
Chi Square Test, Difference of Means
update on zero year president chi square test
Analysis of variance
Multiple Regression analysis
Would you believe?
Data for Assignment 6
answers for assignment 6 extra credit regressions
News
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ECN3321 Money and Banking
Syllabus
Exam grading scale
Bank for International Settlements
Take-home question for exam 3
Exchange Rates / International Money and Banking
Monetary policy and the economy
Monetary policy, part 2
Real GDP graph
Phillips curve
M1 velocity graph (annual)
M2 velocity graph (annual)
Unemployment rate graph (monthly)
CPI Inflation rate graph (annual)
The future of money and banking
Value of dollar, relative to other currencies, graph
Exchange rate of Thailand -- graph
Exchange rate of Japan -- graph
Exchange rate of Euro -- graph
Exchange rate of British pound -- graph
Triangle (inventory) model of money demand
Money multiplier
Additional current readings
- Fortune, May 12, 2003, "The 50 billion card game," page 109
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Visa will settle with retailers for $2 billion over debit fees, Wall Street Journal, May 1, 2003
or
Visa may pay $2 billion to settle debit-card case, Seattle Times, May 1, 2003
Material for exam 2
Comptroller of the currency
Take home question for Exam 2
Banking laws and regulations
Federal Funds rate graph
the S and L crisis
links to some large national banks
Bank balance sheet practice problems
Bank balance sheet practice problems answers
U.S. Code
another route to the U.S. code
Key Bank annual report
Material for Exam 1
History of Money and Banking 1
History of Money and Banking 2
History of Money and Banking 3
Interest rates (2)
Bond price/home mortgage formula
Interest rates (1)
U.S. Money supply
The nature of money
Thomas: U.S. government legislative information
U.S. Code
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PHY1135 Astronomy
Some of the PHY1135 files have been moved to the
new web page. Click here to reach that page, then choose PHY1135
from the Classes menu.
Syllabus
Psalm 19
Exam grading scale
Description of Messier object report assignment
Discussion questions for study groups
Christianity, Astronomy and Creation
answers to exam 3
WMAP mission (probe of cosmic background radiation)
Cosmology
practice questions for exam 3
Quasars
Links to pictures from class
Messier objects
Messier objects
Messier objects
Galaxies
supernovae
selected Hubble telescope pictures and other astronomical images
stars: spectral class, formation, and development
HR diagram
Notes for Exam 2
answers to exam 2
Practice questions for exam 2
Answers to practice questions for exam 2
planetary distance measurement problems: answers
answers for practice problems on stellar distances
Formulas for exam 2
Finding stellar distances with parallax (diagram)
Stars: distances and magnitudes
the Sun
Energy levels for electron in a hydrogen atom
Doppler effect
Waves
Roemer's measurement of speed of light
Light
the acceleration of the moon
Gravity
seconds per year
optional:distance to Venus, distance to sun
the distance to the moon
Parallax formulas
Galileo/Tycho/Kepler/Newton
five views on the relation between science and religion
Notes for exam 1
Answers to exam 1
Practice questions for exam 1
answers to practice questions for exam 1
Galileo/Tycho/Kepler/Newton
Ellipses
Telescopes
Keck 2
telescope
diagrams of the geocentric and heliocentric models
Geocentric and heliocentric models
Saturn's motion, 2003/2004
Planetary motion
star finder: answers to practice questions
optional: sidereal time
declination: degrees/minutes/seconds;
right ascension: hours/minutes/seconds
the celestial sphere
optional:
trigonometric formulas for altitude of stars
Constellation slides for exam 1
Constellation quiz /
Ten brightest stars
optional:Phases of the moon
Eratosthenes' measurement of size of Earth
the calendar
Observations of the sky
Astronomy Links
Sky and Telescope magazine
Astronomy magazine
Seattle Astronomical Society
Goldendale Observatory (south central Washington state)
Astrophotography for the Amateur book
International Astronomical Union
American Astronomical Society
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Very Large telescope project
List of largest telescopes
Hubble space telescope pictures
Stardust mission to comet Wild-2
Additional links

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