ECON8025: Adv Microeconomic Analysis

Welcome and Preliminaries

Preliminaries

Instructor: Simon Grant, Arndt 2006, email: [email protected]

Times:

– Lecture videos for the week available (on Wattle) Monday 8:00am.

– Tutorial questions based on that week’s lecture available Friday 8:00am

– Tutorial (dual delivery - COVID restrictions permitting) Wed 3-4pm

○ location: Forestry Lecture Theatre, Forestry Building no. 48

○ Invitation for Zoom attendees available on Wattle

Consultation time: Tuesdays 1:00-3:00pm, via Zoom (Invitation to Zoom meeting available on Wattle)

Text: Varian, Hal R. Intermediate Microeconomics with Calculus, W.W. Norton, 2020.

Preliminaries cont.

Assessment:

Fortnightly quizzes.

Final exam.

They will count toward the grade as follows.

Quizzes

Run through Wattle on even numbered weeks More detail to come by beginning of week 2.

Topics

1. Consumer Theory and Demand (3 weeks)

2. Firms, production, and Supply (1 weeks)

3. Partial Equilibrium (1 week)

4. Welfare Measures (1 week)

5. General Equilibrium (2 weeks)

6. Introduction to Game Theory and Imperfect Competition (2 weeks)

7. Externalities and Public Goods (2 weeks)