Plan of lectures and seminars – Intermediate Microeconomics 3MI622/ 3MI623
Literature:
Nicholson, Snyder, Luke & Wood: Intermediate Microeconomics. Cengage Learning EMEA, 2008. ISBN: 978-1-84480-629-4,
Plan of lectures and seminars: 3MI622
week | Lecture | Seminar |
1 | Introduction
Consumer optimum |
Introduction to the course |
2 | Individual Demand | Assignment 1: Analytical tools
Chapter 1 (pp.3 – 44) |
3 | Market demand | Assignment 2: Consumer optimum
Chapter 2 (pp 47 – 76) |
4 | Uncertainty and strategy | Assignment 3 – Demand
Chapters 3,4 (77 – 136) |
5 | Production | Assignment 4: Uncertainty and Strategy
Chapters 5,6 (pp 139-158, 165 – 180) |
6 | Costs | TEST
Chapters 1 – 6 |
7 | Profit maximization and supply, Perfectly competitive market |
Assignment 5: Production and costs
Chapters 7,8 (pp. 205 – 263) |
8 | Perfect competition applications, General equilibrium |
Assignment 6: Profit maximization, perfectly competitive market,
Chapters 9, 10, (pp. 265 – 317) |
9
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Monopoly | Assignment 7: Applying the competitive model, General equilibrium
Chapters 11, 12 (pp. 319 –370) |
10 | Oligopoly, monopolistic competition | Assignment 8: Monopoly, Oligopoly, monopolistic competition
Chapters 13, 14 (pp. 373 – 416, 427 – 428, 434 – 443 ) |
11 | Pricing in input markets | TEST
Chapters 7 – 14 |
12 | Capital and Time | Assignment 9: Pricing in input markets
Chapters 15, 16 |
13 | Asymmetric information, externalities, public goods |
TEST
Chapters 15 – 16 |
Plan of seminars: IP_415
week | Seminar |
1 | Introduction to the course |
2 | Assignment 1: Analytical tools used in Microeconomics
Chapter 1 (pp.3 – 44) |
3 | Assignment 2: Consumer optimum
Chapter 2 (pp 47 – 76) |
4 | Assignment 3 – Demand
Chapters 3,4 (77 – 136) |
5 | TEST (chapters 1 – 4) |
6 | Assignment 4: Uncertainty and Strategy
Chapters 5,6 (pp 139 – 202) |
7 | Assignment 5: Production and costs
Chapters 7,8 (pp. 205 – 263) |
8 | Assignment 6: Profit maximization, perfectly competitive market
Chapters 9, 10, (pp. 265 – 317) |
9 | TEST (chapters 5 – 10) |
10 | Assignment 7: Applying the competitive model, General equilibrium
Chapters 11, 12 (pp. 319 – 443) |
11 | Assignment 8: Monopoly, oligopoly, monopolistic competition
Chapters 13, 14 (pp. 373 – 443) |
12 | Assignment 9: Pricing in Input markets
Chapters 15, 16 |
13 | TEST (chapters 11 – 16) |
Instructor: doc. Ing. Bronislava Hořejší, CSc.
Assessment methods (weighing):
Active participation 5%
1st test: 5%
2nd test: 25%
3rd test 25%
4th test 15%
Final essay 25%.
The condition for participation in the course is to obtain at least 60% of each test.
The condition for enrolling for the final essay is to obtain at least 60% of each test and activity, which is a minimum of 45 points.
Literature:
Mankiw, N.G., Taylor, M.P.: Microeconomics. CENGAGE Learning 2017
Nicholson W., Snyder Ch., Luke, P., Wood, M.: Intermediate Microeconomics. South Western CENGAGE Learning 2008 or
Nicholson W., Snyder Ch.: Theory and Applications of Intermediate Microeconomics. 11ed. South Wester CENGAGE Learning 2010 or any later edition or
Nicholson W., Snyder CH.: Microeconomic Theory: Basic Principles and Extensions. 12th ed. South Western CENGAGE Learning 2017 or
Nicholson W., Snyder CH.: Intermediate Microeconomics and Its Application. 12th ed. South Western CENGAGE Learning 2015
Extending:
Nicholson W, Snyder Ch.,Stewart R.: etextbook Microeconomic Theory. Basic Principles and Extensions. 1st edition CENGAGE Learning 2015 http://www.coursesmart.co.uk/IR/8474127/9781473704787?__hdv=6.8.
Pindyck, R.S. – Rubinfield, D.L.: Microeconomics. 8th ed. Pearson 2013.
Varian, Hal.R.: Intermediate Microeconomics. A Modern Approach. 8th ed.W. W. Norton and Company, New York 2010