Textbook and References:
1b. [ 9 /11]
Production Possibility Frontier
(notes2,
blog2;
Ch. 2[4e])
[Note special
date!]
Videos:
Why Politicians Don't Cut Spending,
Opportunity Cost,
and
Trade Creates Wealth.
ALL:
Economic Methods and Economic
Questions (Ch.
2)
• [ 9 /13] Mid Autumn Festival (Holiday)
1c. [ 9 /16] Gains from Trade (notes3,
blog3;
Ch. 3[5e])
[Note special
date!]
Experiment 2:
Gains from Trade (Results: 07F,
08F,
09F,
10F,
15F)
ALL:
Optimization: Doing the Best You Can
(Ch. 3)
2a. [ 9 /20]
Supply and Demand (notes4,
blog4;
Ch. 4[7e])
Experiment 3:
Seeing the Invisible Hand (Results: 07F,
08F,
09F,
13F-HSS,
15F@p.12,
17F)
WSJ reading:
Nasdaq Fresh Market Failure,
Nasdaq Facebook Problem,
How NYSE really works, and
How BATS ruined its own IPO.
ALL:
Demand, Supply and
Equilibrium
(Ch. 4)
2b. [ 9 /23] Supply and Demand (notes4, blog4; Ch. 4[7e]) [Note special date!]
3. [ 9 /27]
Elasticity;
Nobel Perspectives Live! (notes5,
blog5)
Try analyzing
Elasticity in
Calculus 1!
4. [10/
4 ] "Fixing"
the Market? Bad Idea!; Markets and
Welfare (notes6 and
notes7,
blog6
and
blog7)
ALL:
The Government in the Economy: Taxation and Regulation
(Ch. 10)
• [10/11] Double-Tenth Long Weekend (National Holiday)
5. [10/18] Markets and Welfare:
Application to Taxation and
Trade (notes8 and
notes9,
blog8 and
blog9;
Ch. 9[4e])
Experiment 4:
Price Control (Results:
07F,
08F,
09F,
15F@p.7,
17F)
ALL:
Trade (Ch.8)
• [10/23] Quiz 1 (Ch. 1-9)
6. [10/25] Classical Market Failure:
Externalities
(notes10,
blog10)
Experiment 5:
Taxation (Results:
07F,
08F,
09F)
Experiment
7:
Public Goods
Contribution and Irrigation Game (Results: 07F,
08F,
17F)
ALL:
Externalities
and Public Goods (Ch. 9)
Read about
The
Economics of Spam.
7. [11/
1 ]
Classical Market Failure: Public Goods and
Common Resources
(notes11,
blog11)
Experiment 6:
A Tradable
Permit Market (Past Results: 07F,
08F)
[Tradable Permit Market Exam Question]
Read how
Anonymity Affects
Donation and
Private Production of Public Goods.
• [11/
8 ]
Midterm (180 minutes: 9:10am-12:10pm) - Ch.1-11
Old Midterms:
18F,
17F,
16F, 15F, 14F,
13F,
12F,
10F,
09F,
08F,
07F,
Sample
8a. [11/11] Ten Principles of Taiwanese Economics [Note special date!]
8b. [11/13]
Cost of Production (notes13,
blog13)
[Note special
date!]
See
What the Firm Should Do.
ALL:
Sellers
and Incentives (Ch. 6)
• [11/15] NTU Anniversary (Holiday)
9. [11/22]
Cost of Production and
Competitive Markets
(notes13
and notes14,
blog13 and
blog14)
Experiment 8:
Happy Production (Results:
18F)
ALL:
Perfect Competition and the Invisible Hand
(Ch. 7)
10. [11/29]
Monopoly
and
Monopolistic Competition
(notes15
and notes16,
blog15 and
blog16)
Experiment 9:
Perfect Competition
and Monopoly
(Results: TBA)
Read Why
Regulate Utilities?
ALL:
Monopoly (Ch.
12)
and
Oligopoly and Monopolistic Competition
(Ch. 14)
11. [12/
6 ]
Oligopoly
and
Factor Markets
(notes17
and
notes18,
blog17
and
blog18)
Experiment
10: Monopoly and Price Discrimination
(Results: TBA)
Experiment 11: A Price & Quantity Market (Results: TBA)
Experiment
12:
Duopoly (Results: 07F results)
Read about
Possible Price-fixing by Taiwan CPC and FPC.
ALL:
Game Theory and
Strategic Play
(Ch. 13)
12. [12/13]
Wage Differentials and Discrimination
(notes19,
blog19);
Income Inequality and Poverty
(notes20,
blog20)
Experiment 13: Screening and
Educational Signaling (in slides)
ALL:
Markets
for Factors of Production (Ch. 11)
13. [12/20]
Frontiers of (Micro-)Economics (notes22,
blog22)
Experiment 14: Location, Location, Location! (Results:
TBA)
Experiment
15: Labor Market Bargaining
(Results: TBA)
ALL:
Social Economics
(Ch. 18)
ALL:
Political Economy (Web Chapter 3)
• [12/27] Quiz 2 (Ch. 13-22)
• [ 1/
3 ] Final Exam
(180
minutes:
9:10am-12:10pm) -
Cumulative, but focus on the second half (Ch. 13-22).
Old Finals:
18F,
17F,
16F,
15F,
14F,
13F,
12F,
10F,
09F,
08F,
07F
14. [ 1/10] Economics in the News (old)
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modified on
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