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
- Demand Survey
- Demand Step by Step
- Scanner Data Beer
- Avocado Demand
- 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
- Cubic Cost Curve
- 3.1 Supply
- 3.2 Sympy
- 3.3 Sympy 2
- 3.3a Cal Energy Game
- 3.4 CAISO
- Lab Lab 2: Supply (due 9/16 at 11:59 PM)
Week 4
- Sep 17
- 4 Welfare & Government Intervention
- CS from Class Survey
- CS - Welfare Effects
- CS Four Plot
- CS from Class Survey
- Lab Lab 3: Taxes, Government Intervention, and Welfare (due 9/23 at 11:59 PM)
Week 5
- Sep 24
- 5 Production GDP Cobb-Douglas
- Cobb Douglas 1928 Journal Article
- CD-PennWT
- Reading: 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, (Optional) A Theory of Production by Cobb and Douglas
- Lab Lab 4: The Cobb-Douglas Production Function (due 10/2 at 11:59 PM)
- Project Project 2: The Cobb-Douglas Production Function (due 10/15 at 11:59 PM)
Week 6
- Oct 1
- 6 Utility
- Slides
- Data88E Tutor Custom GPT
- 6.1-Sympy Differnetiation
- 6.2-QuantEcon_Optimization
- 6.3-3D_Utility
- 6.4-Latex-MD
- 6.5-Edgeworth
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Reading: 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, LaTeX (external)
- Lab Lab 5: Utility & Latex (due 10/7 at 11:59 PM)
Week 7
- Oct 8
- 7 Inequality
- Slides
- Dollar Street Demo
- 7.1_Inequality-1
- 7.2-Inequality-2
- Reading: 6.0, 6.1, 6.2
- Lab Lab 6: Lorenz Curve (due 10/14 at 11:59 PM)
Week 8
- Oct 15
- 8 Game Theory
- Slides
- 8.1_TwoThirdsGame
- 8.2_ThreeGames
- 8.3_PD_MultiRound
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Lab Lab 7: Game Theory (due 10/21 at 11:59 PM)
- Project Project 3: Game Theory (due 11/4 at 11:59 PM)
Week 9
- Oct 22
- 9 Development
- Slides
- 9.1_SpringsMapping
- 9.2_WaterGuard
- Reading: 8.0
- Lab Lab 8: Waterguard (due 10/28 at 11:59 PM)
Week 10
- Oct 29
- 10 Macroeconomic Policy
- Slides
- 10.1_Macro_Fred_API
- 10.2_Phillips_Taylor
- Lab Lab 9: Macroeconomic Policy (due 11/04 at 11:59 PM)
Week 11
Week 12
- Nov 12
- 12 Finance
- Slides
- 12.1_Interest_Payments
- 12.2_Stocks_Options
- 12.3_CAPM
- 12.4_PersonalFinance
- Reading: 10.0, 10.1, 10.2
- Lab Lab 10: Finance (due 11/18 at 11:59 PM)
Week 13
- Nov 19
- 13 Environmental Economics
- Slides
- 13.1_Co2_ClimateChange
- 13.2_EmissionsTracker
- 13.3_KuznetsHypothesis
- 13.4_RoslingPlots
- 13.5_ConstructingMAC
- Reading: 12.0, 12.1, 12.2
- Lab Lab 11: Environmental Economics (due 12/02 at 11:59 PM)
Week 14
- Nov 26
- 14 Holiday: No Class
Week 15
- Dec 3
- 15 Wrap-up and Guest Lecture