Course objectives

This course will provide students with a basic understanding of the fundamental tools of microeconomic analysis. Successful students will be able to derive some of the most important models of economic behavior from a relatively limited set of assumptions and apply them to relevant real-life instances.

Readings

Topics

Grading

The course grade will be a weighted average of 1) weekly quizzes based on the content of the assigned readings (20%); 2) two homework sets (30%); 3) a midterm exam (25%); and a final exam (25%).