ESF:MPE_ACMI Seminar in microeconomics - Course Information
MPE_ACMI Seminar in microeconomics
Faculty of Economics and AdministrationAutumn 2015
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Ing. Ondřej Krčál, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Ing. Ondřej Krčál, Ph.D.
Department of Economics – Faculty of Economics and Administration
Contact Person: Lydie Pravdová
Supplier department: Department of Economics – Faculty of Economics and Administration - Timetable
- Wed 16:20–17:55 S306
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- (! MPE_CMIE Seminar in Microeconomics ) && (!NOWANY( MPE_CMIE Seminar in Microeconomics ))
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is offered to students of any study field.
- Course objectives
- The course Seminar in microeconomics supplements the course Microeconomics 2. The main goal of the course is to enable students a better understanding and application of the knowledge of microeconomic theory. Students will be able to apply microeconomic theory to particular simplified examples. Altogether, students will develop their economic thinking and subsequently will be able to use microeconomic theory for explanation of specific microeconomic events and solving of specific microeconomic problems.
- Syllabus
- 1. Introductory seminar
- 2. Budget Constraint, Preferences and Utility
- 3. Choice and Revealed Preferences
- 4. Demand and Slutsky Equation
- 5. Consumer's Surplus and Market Demand
- 6. Uncertainty and Equilibrium
- 7. Test + Technology and Profit Maximization
- 8. Cost Minimization and Cost Curves
- 9. Firm Supply and Industry Supply
- 10. Monopoly and Monopoly Behaviour
- 11. Oligopoly
- 12. Game Theory and Asymmetric Information
- 13. Test + Exchange and Production
- Literature
- required literature
- BERGSTROM, Theodore C. and Hal R. VARIAN. Workouts in intermediate microeconomics. 6th ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003, 530, 34. ISBN 0393978311. info
- VARIAN, Hal R. Intermediate microeconomics : a modern approach. 8. ed. New York: Norton, 2010, xxiv, 739. ISBN 9780393934243. info
- Teaching methods
- Seminars are related to the course Microeconomics 2. In the seminars, students solve examples, elaborate case studies a make class experiments.
- Assessment methods
- Necessary to get 60 points out of the total amount of 108 points. Students can get 60 points for two tests and 48 points for the presence and solving problems in the seminars.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
- Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
- MPE_CMIE Seminar in Microeconomics
(!MPE_ACMI) && (!NOWANY(MPE_ACMI))
- MPE_CMIE Seminar in Microeconomics
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2015, recent)
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