Microeconomics

Fall Semester 2016: Syllabus

Introduction

• Session 1 : Introduction to economics
• Session 2 : Introduction to empirical methods

Consumer Behavior

• Session 3 : Consumption and indifference curves
• Session 4 : Consumption, utility and cardinality
• Session 5 : Substitutability and complementarity. Price and income effects.

Producer Behavior

• Session 6 : Theory of the firm
• Session 7 : Competitive Equilibrium

Market and Prices : competitive market, imperfect competition, market power, game theory and asymmetries of information

• Session 8 : Normative issues and the efficiency of the competitive equilibrium and public economics
• Session 9 : Game theory and Cournot-Nash equilibrium
• Session 10 : Imperfect competition and monopoly
• Session 11 : Asymmetries of information

Introduction to Financial Economics

• Session 12: Introduction to Financial Economics