MFIN7701 · Finance
Carroll School of Management
The course is intended to introduce the students to basic economic concepts such as supply and demand, market equilibrium, efficiency, opportunity costs, sunk costs, different market structures, gross domestic product (GDP), money, inflation, unemployment, and monetary policy. The course will be divided into two parts: (1) Microeconomics where the focus is on individual economic agents. In this part consumer demand, firm supply, market structure, equilibrium, efficiency, opportunity costs, and sunk costs are covered. (2) Macroeconomics where the focus is the economy as a whole. In this part the topics are GDP, growth, money, inflation, and unemployment.
Course experience
Averages use the original five-point historical evaluation scale.
Organization
4.3 / 5
How well the course was organized
Challenge
4.4 / 5
How intellectually challenging students found it
Attendance
4.1 / 5
How necessary attendance was
Assignments
4.1 / 5
How helpful assignments were
Weekly effort
~5
hours per week
Estimated from the original workload response buckets. Individual sections may differ.
Instructor options
Ratings below reflect only recovered evaluations connected to this course.
Professor Emeritus, Finance, Carroll School of Management
3.3 / 5
3.3 / 5
Associate Professor of the Practice, Finance, Carroll School of Management
3.8 / 5
3.8 / 5
Professor, John J.L. Collins, S.J. Chair, Finance, Carroll School of Management
3.6 / 5
3.7 / 5
Professor of the Practice, Economics Department
4.6 / 5
4.5 / 5
Across time
Section-level results available in the recovered archive.
Spring 2025
1 sectionFall 2024
3 sectionsFall 2023
2 sectionsFall 2022
2 sectionsSummer 2022
1 sectionFall 2021
2 sectionsFall 2020
3 sectionsSpring 2020
1 section