Microeconomics P1B1

Welcome to Microeconomics P1B1, part of the International Bachelor Data Science by Design of CY Tech.

Here is the course outline.

The text for this course is The Economy: Economics for a Changing World, by the CORE Team, Oxford University Press, 2017 (paperback).  It is available for approximately 55 € at the following websites:

• Oxford University Press

• FNAC

• Amazon

However, the book is also freely available online (in English, French and Italian) at this website.

I will also use materials from the CORE Economics website (from the same people who wrote the textbook). It is an excellent resource. You should create an account (free) on this website to access these materials (they are available in both English and French).

Instructor:  Marcus Pivato, CY Cergy Paris Université, THEMA.

Advice for writing term papers

Final exam

  The final exam for will be in June.  It will be based on the material in Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 16, 20, 21 and 22.   The questions on the exam will be based on  following "recommended problems".   (That is, they will be very similar to these problems).   So it is highly recommended that you do these problems before the exam.

1. All of the multiple-choice "Questions" which appear inside the pink boxes in Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, and 22.   (Solutions for these questions are available on the CORE website,  along with explanations of why each response is correct or incorrect.  We have already worked through several very similar questions during the lectures.)

2. The following "Exercises", which appear in the red-outlined boxes in Chapters 3 - 22:

• Exercise 4.3 (p.146)

• Exercise 4.10 (p.169)

• Exercise 4.12 (p.175)

• Exercise 5.5 (p.196)

• Exercise 5.9 (p.218)

• Exercises 6.5, 6.6 (part 1 only), and 6.7 (pp.254-255)

• Exercise 6.10 (p.260)

• Exercise 7.2 (p.279)

• Exercise 7.3, parts 1-4.   (p.280) (parts 5 and 6 are interesting, but would not be on an exam)

• Exercise 7.4 (p.285)

• Exercise 7.6 (p.303)

• Exercises 8.3 and 8.4 (p.334)

• Exercise 11.1 (p.463)

• Exercise 11.7 (p.489)

• Exercise 12.3 (p.513)

• Exercise 12.4 (p.519)

• Exercise 12.7 (p.526)

• Exercise 12.8 (p.531)

• Exercise 12.10 (p.541)

• Exercise  22.6 (p.1039)

• Exercise 22.7 (p.1043).

You are allowed to use a basic calculator during the exam.  (Not a programmable calculator).  You are not allowed any other electronic aids.

• 2018 midterm exam (with solutions)

• 2018 final exam (with solutions)

• 2019 midterm exam (with solutions)

• 2019 final exam (with solutions)

• 2020 midterm exam (with solutions)

• 2023 midterm exam (with solutions)