Economics 812: Graduate Micro II


Syllabus

Class Lectures Outlines

Week 1: Efficiency and Probability

"Probability, Common Sense, and Realism: A Reply to Hülsmann and Block"

Week 2: General Equilibrium

Weeks 3-4: Intro to Game Theory

Week 5: Repeated Games, Competition, and Cooperation, I

Week 6: Repeated Games, Competition, and Cooperation, II

Week 7: Midterm

Week 8: Symmetric Information

"Systematically Biased Beliefs About Economics"

Week 9: Asymmetric Information

Week 10: Behavioral Economics and Irrationality, I

"Stigler-Becker versus Myers-Briggs"

Week 11: Behavioral Economics and Irrationality, II

"Rational Irrationality: A Framework for the Neoclassical-Behavioral Debate"

Week 12: Labor Economics

Week 13: Finance and Portfolio Theory

Week 14: Economics of Politics

"Rational Irrationality and the Microfoundations of Political Failure"

Homeworks

HW#1

HW#2

HW#3

HW#4

HW#5 (will not be graded!)

HW#6

HW#7

HW#8

HW#9

HW#10 (will not be graded!)

Answer Keys

HW#1 Answer Key

HW#2 Answer Key

HW#3 Answer Key

HW#4 Answer Key

HW#6 Answer Key

HW#7 Answer Key

HW#8 Answer Key

HW#9 Answer Key

Midterm Answer Key (2002)

Midterm Answer Key (2003)

Midterm Answer Key (2004)

Midterm Answer Key (2005)

Midterm Answer Key (2006)

Midterm Answer Key (2007)

Midterm Answer Key (2008)

Final Exam (2002)

Final Exam (2003)

Final Exam (2004)

Final Exam (2005)

Final Exam (2006)

Final Exam (2007)

Final Exam (2008)

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