Principles of Economics I: Microeconomics (經濟學原理與實驗一)

 


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NTU (Fall 2010)

Course Syllabus

Office Hours: Friday 12:10-1:10pm after class, or by email appointment at 社學院研究大樓 Room 425

Classroom and Time: Friday 9:10am-12:10pm at 綜102

Review Session: Monday 10:20am-12:10am at 社101, by TA Mateus Lee (d96323007 "at" ntu.edu.tw)

Textbook and References:

Course outline:

 1. [9/13] Ten Principles of Economics (Ch. 1, blog1; Old Chapter 1, New Chapter 1)
       
Experiment 1: The LUPI Game (07F results, 08F results, 09F results, and your results)
        Ten Principles of Economics, Translated - by Yoram Bauman (Mankiw's Blog Entry and Transcript)
        See Yoram's Comic Guide to Economics; also available in Traditional Chinese
       
Homework Solutions: Ch.1

 2. [9/17] Production Possibility Frontier and Gains from Trade (Ch. 2 and Ch. 3, blog2 and blog3; Old Chapter 2, Old Chapter 3)
       
Experiment 2: Gains from Trade (07F results, 08F results, 09F results, and your results)
       
Homework Solutions: Ch.2, Ch.3

 3. [9/24] Supply and Demand (Ch. 4, blog4)
       
Experiment 3: Seeing the Invisible Hand (07F results, 08F results, 09F results, and your results)
       
Homework Solutions: Ch.4, additional problems
        Curious about the trading rules used in the real world? Read
How the NYSE market really works (from the Wall Street Journal).

 4. [10/1] Elasticity; "Fixing" the Market? Bad Idea! (Ch. 5 and Ch. 6, blog5 and blog6)
       
Experiment 4: Price Control (07F results, 08F results, 09F results, and your results)
       
Homework Solutions: Ch.5, Ch.6

 5. [10/8] Markets and Welfare: Application to Taxation (Ch. 7 and Ch. 8, blog7 and blog8)
       
Experiment 5: Taxation (07F results, 08F results, 09F results, and your results)
       
Homework Solutions: Ch.7, Ch.8, additional problems

 6. [10/15] Markets and Welfare: Application to Trade (Ch. 9, blog9; Old Chapter 9)
       
Experiment 6: International Trade (Paper on the Law of One Price; 09F results and your results)
        Yoram's new video on Economist Egg Receipt, Macroeconomics, and the Nobel Prize Announcement.

        
Homework Solutions: Ch.9

 7. [10/22] Classical Market Failure: Externalities (Ch. 10, blog10)
       
Experiment 7: Public Goods Game (07F results, 08F results, 09F results, and your results)
        See how anonymity affects Dutch church donation: a field experiment
        Homework Solutions: Ch.10

       
Classical Reading: Harold Demsetz, "The Private Production of Public Goods,"
                               
Journal of Law and Economics,Vol.13,No.2.(Oct.,1970),pp.293-306.

 8. [10/29] Classical Market Failure: Public Goods (Ch. 11, blog11)
   
   Experiment 8: A Tradable Permit Market (07F results, 08F results, 09F results, and your results)
       Homework Solutions: Ch.11

 9. [11/5] Tradable Permit Markets and Information Markets (Holt, Ch. 34)
 
      Homework Solutions: Ch.21
      
NCCU Prediction Markets Center (Presentation)

 •   [11/12] Midterm (3 hours: 9:10-12:10)
       
Midterm Sample Question, Old Midterms: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007
        See also this interesting blog entry regarding interview questions.

10. [11/19] Theory of Consumer Choice (Ch.21, blog21 and Ch. 13, blog13)
       
Experiment 9: Bargaining and Perfect Competition (08F results, 08F graduate results, 09F results, and your results)
        Homework Solutions: Ch.13
        Want to know what the firm is suppose to do?  See
this video.

11. [11/26] Cost of Production and Competitive Markets (Ch. 14, blog14)
        Homework Solutions: Ch.14

12. [12/ 3 ] Monopoly (Ch. 15, blog15)
       
Experiment 10: Monopoly, Cartel, and Price Discrimination (07F results, 07F audience, 08F results, 09F results, and your results)
        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.

13. [12/10] Monopolistic Competition (Ch. 16, blog16)
        Homework Solutions: Ch.16

14. [12/17] Oligopoly (Ch. 17, blog17)
       
Experiment 11: A Price & Quantity Market (07F results, 08F results, 09F results, and your results)
        Homework Solutions: Ch.17

        Interesting Paper on possible price fixing of Taiwan CPC and FPC: Lien and Sheu (2008).

15. [12/24] Factor Markets (Ch. 18, blog18)
       
Experiment 12: Duopoly (07F results, 08F results, 09F results, and your results)
        Experiment 13: Education Signaling
       
Homework Solutions: Ch.18

16. [12/31] Wage Differentials and Discrimination (Ch. 19, blog19)
       
Experiment 14: Location, Location, Location! (07F results)
        Homework Solutions: Ch.19
        Some Interesting Facts about Income Inequality (See pp.12-22; from Pf. Luoh's class)

 •   [ 1 / 7 ] Final Exam: Cumulative, but focuses on the second half (Ch.13-22).
        Old Finals: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007

17. [ 1 /14] Economics in the News; Frontiers of (Micro-)Economics (Ch. 22, blog22)
        Homework Solutions: Ch.22


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