Microeconomic Theory
Industrial Organization
Public Economics
Intellectual Property, Patents and Innovation
Game Theory, Decision Theory, Strategic Behaviour
Mathematical Methods for Economics
Various topics:
Public Economics.
Public economics is concerned with all aspects of economic activity that affect society. These notes highlight some of the main topics. File
Game Theory.
Notes on game theory (strategic and extensive form) with applications to oligopoly, coordination problems, auctions, externalities, contracts, welfare and inefficiency, the commons problem, expected utility, the bystander effect, the partnership game, evolutionary stable strategies, bargaining, entry decisions for firms in an industry, cartel agreements, voting, strategic bundling, skill investment hold-up. infrastructure hold-up, intellectual property and incentives, patent lawsuits, wage setting, the principal-agent problem, moral hazard and adverse selection, information and market failure, capital markets, informational inefficiency, market failure in insurance. File
Consumer Welfare Measures.
The common measure of consumer welfare is consumer surplus. These notes discuss that and various other measures of consumer welfare. File
Finite Markov Processes.
These notes review some of the main properties of finite Markov processes. File
Analysis of Variance (ANOVA).
The statistical distribution theory underlying One-Way ANOVA is given here. File