University of Wisconsin–Madison
ECON 703 — Mathematical Economics I (Ph.D. Math Camp)
- Instructor:
- Prof. John Kennan
- Recognition:
- Winner of the Juli Plant Grainger Teaching Excellence Scholarship
Overview & materials
Below are handouts used in discussion sections; PDFs open in a new tab.
- Handout 01 — General Information & Proofs
- Handout 02 — Suprema, Metric Spaces & Sequences
- Handout 03 — Bolzano–Weierstrass, Completeness & Contractions
- Handout 04 — Squeeze Theorem, Lipschitz & Continuity
- Handout 05 — Vector Spaces, Norms & Inner Products
- Handout 06 — Lattices, Convex Sets & (Quasi-)Convexity
- Handout 07 — Graphs, Contours, Differentiability & Homogeneity
- Handout 08 — Monotone Comparative Statics & Differentiation Rules
- Handout 09 — Extrema & Kuhn–Tucker Optimization
- Handout 10 — Linear Algebra, Integration & Taylor
- Handout 11 — Midterm, Cost Functions & IFT
- Extra — “Lamp Game” Proof
Downloads a PDF file.
ECON 410 — Introductory Econometrics
- Instructor:
- Prof. Christopher McKelvey
Overview
Weekly discussion sections reinforced estimation concepts and empirical applications, with emphasis on hands-on problem solving and Stata workflows.
Downloads a PDF file.
Last updated Sept 2025