中级微观经济学3班——2015年春季学期双学位课程介绍

发布日期:2015-02-27 10:22    来源:北京大学国家发展研究院

Intermediate Microeconomics
Spring, 2015

Time and Location: Monday from 7:40 pm to 9:30 pm at Room 105, Teaching Building2, and Sunday from 7:40 pm to 9:30 pm at Room 102, Teaching Building 2.

Instructor: Min Wang. Tel: 62758907. Email: wangmin@nsd.pku.edu.cn. Office: 627 National School of Development. Office hours: 9:00 am~12:00 am, Monday.

Teaching Assistant: Xiumei Yu, Email: yxm123@pku.edu.cn; Yiting Zhang, Email: zhangyiting92@163.com.

Textbook: Hal R. Varian, Intermediate Microeconomics: a Modern Approach. (Check http://product.dangdang.com/product.aspx?product_id=21028326 for the Chinese version of the book)

Course description: This course covers chapters 1-9, 12, 14-16, 18-25, 27, 28, 31-34, 36 and37. It will begin by exploring the consumer theory and …rm theory to study the economic behavior of agents (consumers and producers). In particular, we focus on the underlying decision making mechanisms: utility maximization for consumers and pro…t maximization for producers. Next we combine both to derive market equilibrium and study different market structures: perfect competition, monopoly, oligopoly etc. We will learn how the competitive market can effciently allocate resources for the economy. The course will end
with examining some of the circumstances in which the competitive market fails to produce the effciency: externality, asymmetric information etc..

Exam/Grading: The fi…nal grades will be based on the performance on problem sets (15%),
middle-term exam (40%) and …nal exam (45%).
Exam Schedule: Middle-term exam April 12; Final exam June 14.