Textbook and References:
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
Last
modified on
2017-05-31