The purpose of this page

• to provide short applied exercises with video instructions where students can learn how to use Excel
• to provide short applied exercises with video instructions where students can learn how to use FRED database

Topics included

Topics in Microeconomics:

• Profit Maximization for a Perfectly Competitive Firm (Excel Exercise)
• Median Income Over Time (FRED Exercise)
• Debate about the Minimum Wage (Culminating Exercise)

Topics in Macroeconomics:

• Taking Pulse of the Economy with Macroeconomic Variables (FRED Exercise)
• Unemployment
• Nominal and Real Minimum Wage (Excel Exercise)
• Debt vs Deficit
• Great Recession Explained (Culminating Exercise)

Topics in Food Economics:

• Obesity Statistics and Food Prices (Problem Set)

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