ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS ANALYSIS: QUANTITATIVE METHODS USING SPREADSHEETS - Hardcover

Hsiao, Frank S. T.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9812834923 ISBN 13: 9789812834928

Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc, 2011

Synopsis

This textbook introduces the computer skills necessary for modern-day undergraduate and graduate students to succeed in economic and business analysis. This self-contained book features innovative applications of Excel commands, equations, formulas, and graphics. In addition, the exposition of the basic concepts, models, and interpretations are presented intuitively and graphically without compromising the rigor of analysis.The book contains numerous engaging and innovative examples and problem sets. Practical applications are also highlighted, including the introduction and discussion of key concepts. They show how Excel can be used to solve theoretical and practical problems. This book will be of interest to students, instructors, and researchers who wish to find out more about the applications of Excel in economics and business.The Instructor's manual is available upon request for all instructors who adopt this book as a course text. Please send your request to .

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Review

"Professor Hsiao has written a remarkable and useful book covering statistics and basic economic analysis. It unifies these usually disparate topics via a common analytical framework of Excel spreadsheets. The book is both practical and theoretically sophisticated." ---- Jerry R Green, John Leverett Professor in the University, Harvard University

"As politicians know, economists have two hands. But as Professor Hsiao shows in this magisterial 'how-to' book on conquering the intricacies of spread-sheets, an extra 'helping hand' is not only useful, but necessary. This is a 'hand' worth shaking when you finish -- to say 'thank you'." ---- Ronald W Jones, Xerox Professor of Economics, University of Rochester

"The most powerful way to learn concepts and models in economics is to work with concrete examples, and Professor Hsiao's text teaches the spreadsheet tools necessary to implement numerous illustrations of a variety of microeconomic and macroeconomic models. Frank Hsiao has been developing these instructional materials as part of his courses at the University of Colorado for more than twenty-five years. Anyone who works through this text will learn principles of economics in depth, and also become very proficient in the use of spreadsheets for analysis and presentation in fields beyond business and economics." ---- Robert McNown, Professor of Economics and Director of the Program on International Affairs, University of Colorado

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9812834923
• ISBN 13: 9789812834928
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 636