Contents Describe preferences Indifference curves Well-behaved preferences Marginal rate of substitution

Contents Describe budget constraint –Algebra –Graph Describe changes in budget constraint Government programs and budget constraints Non-linear budget lines

Effects of a Price Change What happens when a commodity’s price decreases? –Substitution effect (替代效应）: the commodity is relatively cheaper, so consumers substitute it for now relatively more expensive other commodities

Structure When to sell an asset? –Rate-of-return Arbitrage Taxation of asset returns Applications Financial intermediaries

Structure State contingent consumption (依情 形而定的消费） State-contingent budget constraint Preferences under uncertainty Choice under uncertainty Risk aversion Diversification and risk spreading

Structure Describing technologies Production set or technology set Production function Isoquant Marginal product Returns to scale Technical rate of substitution Well-behaved technologies Long run and short run

中国人民大学：《实验经济学》课程教学资源（教学大纲，负责人：王湘红）

Structure Money equivalent of utility gains totrade Consumer’s surplus Changes in consumer’s surplus Compensating and equivalentvariations Producer’s surplus

Structure Present and future values Intertemporal budget constraint Preferences for intertemporal consumption Intertemporal choice Comparative statics Valuing securities

1日语学习能力。(听、说、读、写、译的能力培养) 2日本概况知识的了解与掌握。(日本地理、历史、政治、经济、社会、文化等。)