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sidenav header background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, 2015Time 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
Exam/Grading: The fi nal grades will be based on the performance on problem sets (15%),
with examining some of the circumstances in which the competitive market fails to produce the effciency: externality, asymmetric information etc..
middle-term exam (40%) and nal exam (45%).
Exam Schedule: Middle-term exam April 12; Final exam June 14.