Data 88E: Economic Models

UC Berkeley, Fall 2025

Week 1

Aug 27

1 Introduction

Slides

Demo Notebook

Careers Notebook

Form 1

Form 2

Reading: 0

Week 2

Sep 3

2 Demand

Slides

Demand Survey

Demand Step by Step

Scanner Data Beer

Avocado Demand

Reading: 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4

Lab 1 Lab 1: Demand (due 9/9 at 11:59 PM)

Project Project 1: Airbnb (due 9/23 at 11:59 PM)

Week 3

Sep 10

3 Supply

Reading: 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4

Lab Lab 2: Supply (due 9/16 at 11:59 PM)

Week 4

Sep 17

4 Welfare & Government Intervention

Reading: 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

Lab Lab 3

Week 5

Sep 24

5 Production GDP Cobb-Douglas

Reading: 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, (Optional) A Theory of Production by Cobb and Douglas

Lab Lab 4

Project Project 2

Week 6

Oct 1

6 Utility

Reading: 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, LaTeX (external)

Lab Lab 5

Week 7

Oct 8

7 Inequality

Reading: 6.0, 6.1, 6.2

Lab Lab 6

Week 8

Oct 15

8 Game Theory

Reading: 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5

Lab Lab 7

Week 9

Oct 22

9 Development

Reading: 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5

Lab Lab 8

Project Project 3

Week 10

Oct 29

10 Macroeconomic Policy

Reading: 8.0

Lab Lab 9

Week 11

Nov 5

11 Econometrics

Reading: 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4

Project Project 4

Week 12

Nov 12

12 Finance

Reading: 10.0, 10.1, 10.2

Lab Lab 10

Week 13

Nov 19

13 Environmental Economics

Reading: 12.0, 12.1, 12.2

Lab Lab 11

Week 14

Nov 26

14 Holiday: No Class

Week 15

Dec 3

15 Wrap-up and Guest Lecture