2. [9/26] Production Possibility Frontier and
Gains from Trade (Mankiw, Ch.
2,
3;
Chapter 2,
Chapter 3)
Experiment 2: Gains from Trade (中文說明,
past results,
your results, and experimenter manual)
Homework Solutions: Ch.2,
Ch.3
3. [10/3]
Supply and Demand (Mankiw, Ch.
4)
Experiment 3: Seeing the Invisible Hand (中文說明,
past results,
your results, and experimenter manual)
Homework Solutions:
Ch.4
Curious about the trading rules used
in the real world? Read
How the
NYSE market really works (from the Wall Street Journal).
• [10/10] No class (Holiday)
4. [10/17]
Elasticity;
"Fixing" the Market? Bad Idea! (Mankiw, Ch.
5,
6)
Experiment 4: Price Control and Taxation (中文說明,
past results,
your results, and experimenter manual)
Homework Solutions: Ch.5,
Ch.6
5. [10/24]
Markets and Welfare:
Application to Taxation (Mankiw, Ch.
7
and
8)
Experiment 5: International Trade (中文說明, past results, your results, and
experimenter manual)
Homework Solutions:
Ch.7,
Ch.8
6. [10/31] Markets and Welfare:
Application to
Trade (Mankiw, Ch.
9;
Chapter 9)
Homework Solutions:
Ch.9
7. [11/7] Classical Market Failure:
Externalities and/or
Public Goods
(Mankiw, Ch.
10,
11)
Experiment
7:
Public Goods Game (中文說明,
past results,
your results, and experimenter manual)
Homework Solutions:
Ch.10,
Ch.11
Classical Reading: Harold Demsetz, "The
Private Production of Public Goods,"
Journal of Law and
Economics,Vol.13,No.2.(Oct.,1970),pp.293-306.
• [11/14]
Midterm (3 hours:
9:10-12:10)
Midterm Sample Question,
Old Midterms: Fall 2007
Textbook "Other" Problem Solutions:
Ch.1,
Ch.2,
Ch.3,
Ch.4,
Ch.5,
Ch.6,
Ch.7,
Ch.8,
Ch.9,
Ch.10,
Ch.11
8. [11/21]
Tradable Permit Market,
Cost of Production (Mankiw, Ch.
13)
Experiment 6: A Tradable Permit Market (中文說明,
past results,
your results, and
experimenter manual)
Homework Solutions:
Ch.13
Want to know what the firm is suppose to do? See
this
video.
9. [11/28]
Competitive Markets (Mankiw, Ch.
14)
Experiment
8:
Classical Perfect Competition (中文說明,
graduate
micro results, your results, and
experimenter manual)
Homework Solutions:
Ch.14
10. [12/5 ]
Monopoly (Mankiw, Ch.
15)
Experiment
9:
Monopoly, Cartel, and Price Discrimination (中文說明, past results, your results, and experimenter manual)
Homework Solutions:
Ch.15
Classical Reading: Harold Demsetz, "Why
Regulate Utilities?"
Journal of Law and
Economics,Vol.11,No.1.(Apr.,1968),pp.55-65.
11. [12/12]
Oligopoly (Mankiw, Ch.
16)
Experiment
10:
Duopoly (中文說明, past results, and experimenter manual)
Homework Solutions:
Ch.16
Interesting
Paper on possible price fixing of Taiwan CPC and FPC:
Lien and
Sheu (2008).
12. [12/19]
Monopolistic Competition (Mankiw, Ch.
17)
Experiment 11: A Price & Quantity Market (中文說明, past results, your results, and
experimenter manual
[Holt, Ch.10])
Homework Solutions:
Ch.17
13. [12/26]
Factor Market,
Wage Differentials
and Discrimination (Mankiw, Ch.
18,
19)
Homework Solutions: Ch.18,
Ch.19
Some Interesting Facts about
Income
Inequality (See pp.12-22; from Pf. Luoh's class)
14. [1/9]
Asymmetric Information,
Political Economy and Behavioral Economics (Mankiw, Ch.
22)
Experiment 12: Location, Location, Location! (中文說明, past results, your results, and experimenter manual)
Homework Solutions: Ch.22
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Final Exam: Material
are accumulative, but focuses on the second half (Ch.13-22).
Old Finals:
Fall 2007
Textbook "Other" Problem Solutions:
Ch.13,
Ch.14,
Ch.15,
Ch.16,
Ch.17,
Ch.18,
Ch.19,
Ch.22
Online Resources:
1. Gregory Mankiw:
Textbook and
blog
2. R. Preston McAfee: Textbook and
website
3. AEA's
Undergraduate Economics
Last
modified on
July 15, 2009