Microeconomics (ECON 2001)

2011-2012

What you should not do when running into a challenge.

1. On 17/05, group eight will present a talk. Their proposal is here.

2. The midterm's answers are available now.

3. The first quiz's test and answers are available now.

4. Contact persons of groups 6, 7, and 8 (please find a group and join it)

Group 6: 林家寧 b99703047@ntu.edu.tw
Group 7: 何君彥 b97902048@ntu.edu.tw
Group 8: 王芷涵 b98703042@ntu.edu.tw or 游璟萱 b98703051@ntu.edu.tw  

Important dates of the 2nd semester:

Material:

Lecture 11: Slides (Labor market and intertemporal choice)

Lecture 10: Slides (Labor market), Assignment 7

1. New Perspectives on Gender by Marianne Bertrand

2. Statistical discrimination (economics) from Wiki.

3. The Boom in College Education by Gary Becker (Wage differential has been widened in the past 20 years or so)

4. American Wage Stagnation by Richard Posner (Taiwan is not alone in wage stagnation and rising inequality)

5. Technology and Inequality by Kenneth Rogoff (The future trend of wage differential between skilled and unskilled workers)

Lecture 9: Slides (Factor market), Assignment 6

Lecture 8: Slides (Factor market) There is no assignment this week.

Lecture 7: Slides (Common resources + public goods), Assignment 5 and Assignment 5a

1. A Rising Tide (Scientists find proof that privatising fishing stocks can avert a disaster ), The Economist 2008/09/18

2. Market Failure Compared to Government Failure, by Gary Becker

3. Posner and Becker on Privatizing Highways and Other Functions (public goods)

Lecture 6: Slides (Externality), Assignment 4

1. Private Property Rights to Wildlife: The Southern African Experiment (common resources)

2. Cod's warning from Newfoundland and Canadian Cod: A Lesson Learned (Tragedy of the commons)

Lecture 5: Slides (Externality), Assignment 3 [answers to be announced in class] Assignment 3a [for you to practice on mixed strategies]

1. Proposal of group 5 is available here.

2. Everything we know about AIDS in Africa is wrong -- by Emily Oster on TED

3. Why hotels resist having defibrillators? from WSJ

Lecture 4: Slides (Externality), Assignment 2 and answers

1. Rob Harmon: How the market can keep streams flowing on TED

2. The Pigou Club Manifesto from Greg Mankiw's Blog

Lecture 3: Slides (Game theory), No assignment this week.

1. Free online course Game Theory at Stanford University.

2. Author Commentary 1 (about Marriage Contract)

Lecture 2: Slides (Game theory), Assignment 1 and answers

1. Check out the definition of subgame perfect equilibrium on Wiki.

2. A British TV show, Golden Balls, was desiged based on the idea of prisoner's dilemma.

3. Pigs pressing lever game is from this study.

Lecture 1: Slides (oligopoly and game theory), No assignment this week.

1. For more on multiple equilibria in the market for car insurance, see this article. (Author Commentary 1)

2. Read this article to learn about some slightly outdated applications of game theory to American politics. (Author Commentary 2)

3. This article is about the social status game. (Author Commentary 3)

For materials of the first semester, please click here.