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Microeconomic Analysis

(10140001 + 10140002)

VeranstalterAnja Prummer, Daniel Ziegler
KontaktpersonAnja Prummer and Ekaterina Gorbunova, ls-mikrooekonomik@wiwiss.fu-berlin.de
SpracheEnglisch
Leistungspunkte6 ECTS
Anmeldemodalität

Campus Management

Hinweis

0258eA1.1

Zielgruppe

graduate Economics

Voraussetzungen

Module Description

The course aims to provide an advanced introduction to fundamental concepts in Microeconomics. It focuses on the conditions under which choices can be represented by utility functions and introduces the concept of utility maximization, along with its dual problem, expenditure minimization. This is followed by an introduction to welfare economics. The course then covers market exchange and market failures resulting from externalities and public goods. Finally, we explore decision-making under uncertainty, which leads to an understanding of the role of information asymmetries in markets.

Examination form: Exam

Course Overview 

  1. Classical Demand Theory (Choice, Utility Maximization, Expenditure Minimization, Welfare)
  2. Exchange
  3. Public Goods
  4. Externalities
  5. Decisions under Uncertainty
  6. Information Asymmetries

Literaturliste

  • ehle, G. and P.J. Reny. Advanced Microeconomic Theory. Prentice Hall. 3rd edition (2011)
  • Kreps, D. A Course in Microeconomic Theory. Princeton University Press. (1990)
  • MacLeod, W.B. Advanced Microeconomics for Contract, Institutional and Organizational Economics, MIT Press (2022)
  • Mas-Colell, A., M. Whinston und J. Green: Microeconomic Theory, Oxford: Oxford University Press (1995)
  • Salanie, B. The microeconomics or market failures, MIT Press (2000)
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