Primary Readings: DL-Chapter 4; JR-Chapter 3; Varian-Chapter 7 In most economic models, we start with an agent's utility function. The utility function basically maps from bundles that the agent might choose, to the real line. The utility function is quite convenient: it can be maximized and manipulated using mathematical tools. But the question is are we imposing some hidden or desirable assumptions when we take this approach ?prefeent's

第一节 市场结构与厂商决策 第二节 完全竞争市场 第二节 完全竞争条件下的的短期均衡 第三节 完全竞争条件下的的长期均衡

第一节 边际效用递减规律与消费者均衡 第二节 边际替代率递减规律与消费者均衡 第三节 确定条件下的消费者选择 第四节 不确定条件下的消费者选择

第一节 市场与竞争 MARKETS AND COMPETITION 第二节 需求 DEMAND 第三节 供给理论 第四节 均衡价格理论供给与需求的共同作用

第五章 厂商与生产理论 第一节 生产函数 第二节 一种可变要素下的投入产出 第三节 替代性要素与产量的关系 第四节 科布-道格拉斯生产函数 第六章 成本 第一节 成本与利润 第二节 厂商追求最低成本的行为 第三节 短期成本 第七章 完全竞争条件下的产品供给 第一节 市场结构和完全竞争 第二节 完全竞争厂商的短期决策 第三节 厂商和行业的短期供给曲线 第四节 供给价格弹性

Introduction. The problems in this chapter examine some variations on the apartment market described in the text. In most of the problems we work with the true demand curve constructed from the reservation prices of the consumers rather than the “smoothed” demand curve that we used in the text

几个重要概念 几种重要的单方程需求函数模型及其参数估计 线性支出系统需求函数模型及其参数估计 几种需求函数模型系统 建立与应用需求函数模型中的几个问题

第一节 完全垄断及其成因 第二节 完全垄断厂商的短期均衡 第三节 完全垄断厂商的长期均衡 第四节 完全垄断厂商的价格歧视 第五节 完全垄断厂商的福利损失与政府管制

2.1 If there are two goods with positive prices and the price of one good is reduced, while income and other prices remain constant, then the size of the budget set is reduced. Topic: Budget Constraint Diculty: 1 % Correct Responses: 76 Discrimination Index: 24 Correct Answer: False

This chapter was written so I would have something to talk about on the first day of class. I wanted to give students an idea of what economics was all about, and what my lectures would be like, and yet not have anything that was really critical for the course. (At Michigan, students are still shopping around on the first day, and a good number of them won’t necessarily be at the lecture.)