AEM 5600

Managerial Economics

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2026-2027 Catalog.

This course covers topics in microeconomics that inform managerial decisions, including intermediate principles of microeconomics. Examples will be drawn from recent business cases.

Prerequisites ECON 1110; ECON 1120; MATH 1110; or equivalents.

Forbidden Overlaps AEM 2600, AEM 5600, ECON 3030, PUBPOL 2000

Enrollment Priority Enrollment limited to: Applied Economics and Management (AEM) Master of Professional Studies (MPS) students.

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025FA, 2024FA, 2023FA, 2022FA

Learning Outcomes

• Know and be able to use economic models of production and consumption to make predictions about behavior.
• Apply economic models to business cases for the purpose of evaluating decisions.
• Use economic models of risky choice and time discounting to evaluate decisions.
• Use economic models of monopolistic competition to make predictions about behavior.
• Use basic concepts of game theory in simple games to make behavioral predictions.

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