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

 


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Course Syllabus

Office Hours: Friday 12:10-1:10pm after class, or by email appointment at Social Science Building (頤賢館) Room 754

Classroom and Time:

Lectures: Friday 9:10am-12:10pm at Management 2nd Building Room 104  (管二104)

Review Session 1: Monday 12:20-1:10am at Management 2nd Building Room 101  (管二101), by TA 王棋瑩 (r05323054 "at" ntu.edu.tw)
                                Office Hours of TA
Chi-Ying Wang (王棋瑩): Monday 9-11am and Tuesday 15:30-17:30pm at Social Science Building (頤賢館) Room 649

Review Session 2: Wednesday 12:20-1:10am at Social Science Building (頤賢館) Room 202, by TA 張耕齊 (r03323070 "at" ntu.edu.tw)
                                Office Hours of TA Keng-Chi Chang (張耕齊): Thursday 14:20-15:10pm at
Social Science Building (頤賢館) Room 650

Textbook and References:

Course outline:

 1a. [ 9 /12] The Principles and Practices of Economics (Ch. 1) [Note special date!]
        
 Mankiw's Ten Principles of Economics (Ch. 1)
          Ten Principles of Economics, Translated - by Yoram Bauman (Transcript; 10th Anniversary Ed.)

 1b. [ 9 /14] The Principles and Practices of Economics (aka What is Economics?) [Note special date!]
        
Experiment 1: The LUPI Game (Results: 07F, 08F, 09F, 10F, 12F, 13F-HSS, 15F)

 2a. [ 9 /19] Economic Methods and Economic Questions   (Ch. 2) [Note special date!]
       
 

 2b. [ 9 /21] Optimization: Doing the Best You Can  [Note special date!]
       
 Experiment 2: Screening and Education Signaling (in Slides)

 2c.  [ 9 /23] Demand, Supply and Equilibrium
       
 Experiment 3: Seeing the Invisible Hand (Results: 07F, 08F, 09F, 13F-HSS, 15F@p.12)
        WSJ reading: Nasdaq Fresh Market Failure, Nasdaq Facebook Problem,
How NYSE really works, and How BATS ruined its own IPO.

 3.  [ 9 /30] Consumers and Incentives
       
 

 4.  [10/ 7 ] Sellers and Incentives
       
 Experiment 4: Happy Production
        See What the Firm Should Do.

 5.  [10/14] Perfect Competition and the Invisible Hand
       
 Experiment 5: Price Control (Results: 07F, 08F, 09F, 15F@p.7, 16F@p.10)

 6.  [10/21] Trade
       
 Experiment 6: Gains from Trade (Results: 07F, 08F, 09F, 10F, 15F)

 7.  [10/28] Externalities and Public Goods
        
Experiment 7: Public Goods Game (Results: 07F, 08F, 16F)
       Read about The Economics of Spam, and how Anonymity Affects Donation and
Private Production of Public Goods.

 8a. [10/31] The Government in the Economy: Taxation and Regulation  [Note special date!]

 8b. [11/ 2 ] Tradable Permit Market (old)  [Note special date!]
   
   

 •   [11/ 4 ] Quiz 1

 •   [11/11] Midterm (3 hours: 9:10-12:10) - Ch.1-10
       
Old Midterms: 15F, 14F, 13F, 12F, 10F, 09F, 08F, 07F, Sample

 9.  [11/18] Markets for Factors of Production
         Experiment 8: A Tradable Permit Market (Past Results: 07F, 08F)

10. [11/25] Monopoly
        
Experiment 9: Monopoly, Cartel, and Price Discrimination (Results: 07F, 07Faudience)
       
 Read Why Regulate Utilities?

 •   [12/ 2 ] Guest Lecture by Teck Ho (VP of NUS, Editor of Management Science)

11. [12/ 9 ] Game Theory and Strategic Play
         Experiment 10: Duopoly (07F results)

12. [12/16] Political Economy (Web Chapter 3)
         Experiment 11: A Price & Quantity Market (Results: 07F)
        Read about
Possible Price-fixing by Taiwan CPC and FPC.

13. [12/23] Oligopoly and Monopolistic Competition
         Experiment 12: Labor Market Bargaining

14. [12/30] Social Economics
        
Experiment 13: Location, Location, Location! (Results: 07F)

 •   [ 1/ 6 ] Quiz 2

 •   [ 1 /13] Final Exam (3 hours: 9:10-12:10) - Cumulative, but focuses on the second half (Ch. 11-14, 18, Web Chapter 3).
         Old Finals: 15F, 14F, 13F, 12F, 10F, 09F, 08F, 07F

        


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