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课程简介

This course focuses on the following topics: basic theory of consumer behavior; production and costs; partial equilibrium analysis of pricing in competitive and monopolistic markets; general equilibrium; welfare; and externalities. It is recommended for students planning to apply to graduate school in economics, accounting, or finance.

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Lecture Notes

Producer Part

1 Technology (PDF)

2 Profit Maximization (PDF)

3 Profit Function, Deriving Supply and Demand (PDF)

4 Cost Minimization (PDF)

5 Cost Function (PDF)

6 Duality

Consumer Part

7 Utility Functions (PDF)

8 Individual Choice (PDF)

9 Demand, Aggregating Individual Demands (PDF)

10 Consumer Surplus, Welfare (PDF)

11 Competitive Markets (PDF)

12 Monopoly (PDF)

13 Risk and Uncertainty (PDF)

Equilibrium Analysis

14-15 Walrasian Equilibrium: Exchange Economy, with Production. (PDF)

Strategic Considerations

16 Intro into Game Theory

17-18 Oligopoly. Cournot, Bertrand Equilibria. Quantity, Price Leadership. Market Entry. Collusion.

19-20 Information Economics: Lemon Markets, Adverse Selection, Signaling, Moral Hazard, Principal-Agent Problems (PDF)

Special Topics

21-22 Auctions, Optimal Selling Mechanisms. Public goods. (PDF)

Assignments

The problem sets come from the required textbook for the course:

Varian, Hal R. Microeconomic Analysis. 3rd ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1992.

The textbook contains answers to odd-numbered problems in each chapter. Prof. Izmalkov has developed answers to the even-numbered textbook problems (see below) used in the course.

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