Introduction (August 23rd)
Preferences and Utility (August 25th-August 30th)
Consumer Choice (September 1st – 13th)
Substitution and Income effect (September 13th -September 20th)
Recitation – Friday Sept. 23rd (Answer Key)
Measuring Welfare Changes (September 20th – September 27th)
Production Functions (October 4th – October 6th)
Cost Minimization (October 11th – October 13th)
Monopoly (October 18th – October 20th)
Game Theory: Simultaneous-Move Games (October 25th – October 27th)
Recitation – Friday Oct. 28th (Answer Key)
Game Theory: Sequential and Repeated Games (October 27th – November 1st)
Imperfect Competition (November 1st – November 10th)
Externalities and Public Goods (November 15th – December 1st)
Recitation – Friday December 2nd (Answer Key)
Assignments
- Homework #1 (Due September 6th) Answer Key
- Homework #2 (Due September 20th) Answer Key
- Homework #3 (Due October 13th) Answer Key
- Homework #4 (Due October 25th) Answer Key
- Homework #5 (Due November 17th) Answer Key
- Homework #6 (Due December 6th) Answer Key
Quizzes
- Quiz #1 (September 1st)
- Quiz #2 (September 15th)
- Quiz #3 (October 11th)
- Quiz #4 (November 1st)
- Quiz #5 (November 14th)
Midterms
- Midterm #1 – Thursday, September 29th [Recitation: Friday, September 23rd]
- Midterm #2 – Due on November 8th [Recitation: Friday, October 28th] Answer Key
- Final Exam: Tuesday, December 13th [Recitation: December 2nd]
- Recitations will be from 11:10am-12pm in Hulbert 27 and 12:10-1pm in TODD 226.
Game Theory
Prisoner’s Dilemma
Decisions
Split or Steal
The Chicken Game
Penalty Kick
Books
Externalities
Tragedy of the Commons