| LECTURE |
CLASS DATE |
SUBJECT |
CHAPTER(S)
and/or PAGES |
1 |
Jan 16 |
Getting Started - Go Through Checklist |
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Jan 18 |
Introduction - Institutional
Examples |
|
2 |
Jan 23 |
Review of Econ 102 - Opportunity Cost |
1 |
3 |
Jan 25 |
Review of Econ 102 - Supply and Demand |
2 |
CONSUMER THEORY
|
4 |
Jan 30 |
Commodity Space, Preferences |
pp. 67-86 |
5 |
Feb 1 |
Budget Constraint, Characterizing the Consumer's Optimum |
pp. 87-96 |
6 |
Feb 6 |
Utility Functions, Comparative Statistics |
Lecture
Notes, pp. 103-108 |
7 |
Feb 8 |
Elasticity |
pp. 122-136, 163-166 |
8 |
Feb 13 |
More Comparative Statistics, Income and Substitution
Effects |
pp. 109-121 |
9 |
Feb 15 |
Measuring the Benefits of a Price Change, Revealed
Preference |
pp. 153-163, Lecture Notes |
10 |
Feb 20 |
Labor Supply |
pp. 493-503 |
11 |
Feb 22 |
Other Applications |
pp. 147-153 |
12 |
Feb 27 |
Borrowing and Saving |
pp. 166-180 |
|
Mar 1 |
Review Session |
|
|
Mar 6 |
Midterm (Regular time and location) |
|
13 |
Mar 8 |
Economics of Information |
pp. 186 - 199 |
|
Mar 10-18 |
Spring Break |
|
14 |
Mar 20 |
Choice under Uncertainty and Insurance |
pp. 199 - 216 |
15 |
Mar 22 |
Anomalies |
8 |
THEORY OF THE FIRM
|
16 |
Mar 27 |
Externalities, Transactions Costs, What is a Firm? |
17 |
17 |
Mar 29 |
Characterizing Technology |
9 |
18 |
Apr 3 |
Cost |
10 |
19 |
Apr 5 |
Profit Maximization |
pp. 346-358 |
MARKETS: COMPETITION, MONOPOLY,
AND OLIGOPOLY
GAMES AND STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR
|
20 |
Apr 10 |
Competitive Markets and Efficiency - Partial Equilibrium |
pp. 358-387 |
21 |
Apr 12 |
Competitive Markets and Efficiency - General Equilibrium |
16 |
22 |
Apr 17 & 19 |
Monopoly, Price Discrimination, Regulation |
12 |
23 |
Apr 24 |
Cartels, Prisoner's Dilemma, and Other Games |
pp. 454-457, ch. 7 |
24 |
Apr 26 |
Oligopoly Theory - Cournot, Bertand, and Stackelberg |
pp. 443-453 |
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May 1 |
Review Session |
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May 4 |
COMPREHENSIVE FINAL
EXAM 1:30-4:30 pm in regular classroom |
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