ESF:MPE_ACMI Seminar in microeconomics - Course Information
MPE_ACMI Seminar in microeconomics
Faculty of Economics and AdministrationAutumn 2020
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Alla Kachur (seminar tutor)
doc. Ing. Ondřej Krčál, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
prof. Ing. Zdeněk Tomeš, Ph.D. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- prof. Ing. Zdeněk Tomeš, Ph.D.
Department of Economics – Faculty of Economics and Administration
Contact Person: Mgr. Jarmila Šveňhová
Supplier department: Department of Economics – Faculty of Economics and Administration - Timetable of Seminar Groups
- MPE_ACMI/01: Wed 10:00–11:50 S309, O. Krčál
MPE_ACMI/02: Wed 14:00–15:50 P312, O. Krčál - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- (! MPE_CMIE Seminar in Microeconomics ) && (! NOWANY ( MPE_CMIE Seminar in Microeconomics ))
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Business Management (programme ESF, N-PEMA)
- Economics (programme ESF, N-EKONA)
- Economics (Eng.) (programme ESF, N-EKT)
- Finance (programme ESF, N-FINA)
- Public Economics and Administration (Eng.) (programme ESF, N-HPS)
- Course objectives
- The course Seminar in microeconomics supplements the course Microeconomics 2. The main goal of the course is to deepen students' knowledge of microeconomic theory and improve their ability to apply the theory in practice.
- Learning outcomes
- After completing the course the students will be able to:
- derive theoretical concepts from consumer theory, theory of the firm, general equlibrium and theory of asymmetric information;
- apply microeconomic theory to stylized problems;
- analyze real consumer decisions, competitive behavior and market outcomes. - 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
- VARIAN, Hal R. Intermediate microeconomics : a modern approach. 8. ed. New York: Norton, 2010, xxiv, 739. ISBN 9780393934243. info
- BERGSTROM, Theodore C. and Hal R. VARIAN. Workouts in intermediate microeconomics. 8th ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 2009, 562, 38. ISBN 9780393935158. 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 for solving problems in the seminars.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
General note: This course is due to COVID 19 measurements instructed only ONLINE in the autumn semester 2020. You can contact the teacher of the course about the organizational matters. - 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 2020, recent)
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