Where are We in the Course? We are working on the 1st of the 3 components of microeconomics: Consumer behavior, production theory, and market. There are three elements of consumer behavior: budget constraint, preference, and choices
Ten Principles of Economics Thinking Like an Economist Interdependence and the Gains from Trade The Market Forces of Supply and Demand Elasticity and Its Application Supply, Demand and Government Policies Consumers, Producers, and the Efficiency of Markets Application: The Costs of Taxation Application: International Trade Externalities Public Goods and Common Resources The Costs of Production Firms in Competitive Markets Monopoly Oligopoly Monopolistic Competition The Economics of Labor Markets
The Purpose of this Chapter To begin to understand the art of building an economic model To begin to understand three basic elements of modeling in economics: Purpose Simplification through assumptions -Value judgment
5. 1 The Government Bond Market 5.1.1 when the government runs a deficit, it has to get the funds. There are three ways for the government to get funds
Standard approach to Estimating Volatility Define on as the volatility per day between day n-1 and day n, as estimated at end of day Define S: as the value of market variable at end of day i
Chapter one Introduction: 1.1 Defining Microeconomics 1.2 Economic Theories and Models(经济理论与模型) 1.3 The Mathematics of Optimization(数学最优化) 1.4 Demand-Supply Model Chapter 2 Consumer Behavior and Demand Theory 2.1 Preference and Utility 2.2 Utility Maximization and Choice 2.3 Income and Substitution Effects 2.4 Market Demand and Elasticity