中级微观经济学1班——2012年秋季学期双学位课程介绍

发布日期:2012-09-04 12:49    来源:北京大学国家发展研究院

Intermediate Microeconomics Class 1
Fall 2012
 
Instructor:Lei, Xiaoyan
Email:xylei@ccer.pku.edu.cn
Tel: 6275-8946
Office:CCER room #626
Class time:  Thursdays 9-10 (17:40-19:30), Saturdays 3-4 (10:10-12:00)
Classroom:Second Classroom Building, Room 102
 
Teaching Assistants: 
Sun, Xiaoting:pkusxt@gmail.com
Xu, Wenjian:xuwenjian1989@163.com
TA sessions: Thursdays:11-12 (19:40-21:30), Second Classroom Building, room 102
 
Required textbook:  Walter Nicholson: Microeconomic Theory: Basic Principles and Extensions, 9th Edition.
 
Teaching Language:   English
 
Grading: 
1) Homework takes up 25% of the total grades. We will give six homework assignments, but only the first five will be graded, each worth 5%. The last one will be assigned with an answer key provided directly.
2) We will have two exams that account for 75% of the total grades. In case someone accidentally behaves badly in one exam, the total score of these two exams will be calculated with two kinds of proportions and the larger score will finally be used. These two combinations of proportions are:  35% (midterm) + 40% (final) or 20% (midterm) + 55% (final).  
 
Couse Outline (may subject to minor adjustments)
Lec1: Introduction 
- 9/13


Lec2-3: Preferences, Utility  and Choices (Chs.3-4)
- 9/15, 9/20 (HW 1 Assigned)


 Lec4-5: Income and Substitution Effects  (Ch.5)
- 9/22,  9/27 (HW1 Due)


Lec6:  Demand Relationships among Goods (Ch. 6)
- 9/29 (HW2 Assigned)


Lec7-8: Production and Costs (Chs.7-8)
- 10/11, 10/13 (HW2 Due)


Lec9-10:  Perfect Competition (Chs.9-10)
- 10/18, 10/20(HW3 Assigned)


Lec11-12: Applied Competitive Analysis (Chs. 10-11)
- 10/25, 10/27(HW3 Due)


Lec13  Midterm Review
- 11/1 


 
Midterm Exam  11/3 (Saturday): 10:10-12:10
 
Lec14-15 General Equilibrium and Welfare (Ch. 12)
- 11/8, 11/10


Lec16-17:  Models of Monopoly (Ch. 13) 
- 11/15 (HW4 Assigned), 11/17


Lec18-19:  Imperfect Competition Models (Ch. 14)
- 11/22 (HW4 Due), 11/24


Lec20-21:  Game Theory (Ch. 15)
- 11/29 (HW5 Assigned), 12/1


Lec22-23: Labor Market (Ch. 16)
- 12/6(HW5 Due), 12/8 


Lec24-25: Externalities and Public Goods (Ch. 20)
- 12/13(Practice HW6 Assigned)


Lec26:  Final Review
- 12/15


 
Final Exam:12/20 (Thursday): 17:40 - 19:40