ECON202-14S1 (C) Semester One 2014

Intermediate Microeconomics with Calculus I

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 24 February 2014
End Date: Sunday, 29 June 2014
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 9 March 2014
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 25 May 2014

Description

ECON202 is the first of two courses of a coordinated sequence of courses that introduce students to the three pillars of economic analysis (choice, scarcity, and coordination) and the mathematical techniques that economists use to represent these ideas (optimisation, equilibrium, and adding-up constraints). The sequence is largely devoted to "price theory", which is the analysis of the role that prices play in facilitating coordination in a market economy. ECON202 introduces students to the modelling of consumer and firm choices.

Learning Outcomes

  • At the end of the two-semester sequence of ECON202 and 203, students should be able to
  • model consumer and firm choice, using both graphical and mathematical language;
  • understand the role that prices play in communicating information and coordinating
                behaviour in a market economy;
  • use a general equilibrium framework as a starting point for economic analysis; and
  • begin to think like an economist.

Prerequisites

Restrictions

ECON230 and ECON231

Co-requisites

Course Coordinator

Seamus Hogan

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Problem Sets 10%
Final Exam 70%
Mid-Term Test 20%


There are two weighting schemes on the test and final exam (best of (20% and 70%) or (40% and 50%).

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Bergstrom, Theodore C. , Varian, Hal R; Workouts in intermediate microeconomics : [a modern approach] ; 8th ed; Norton, 2009.

Varian, Hal R; Intermediate microeconomics : a modern approach ; 8th ed; W.W. Norton & Co, 2010.

Recommended Reading

Harford, Tim; The logic of life : the hidden economics of everything ; Little, Brown, 2008.

Harford, Tim; The undercover economist : exposing why the rich are rich, the poor are poor--and why you can never buy a decent used car! ; Oxford University Press, 2006.

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Course Outline

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $709.00

International fee $3,063.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Department of Economics and Finance .

All ECON202 Occurrences

  • ECON202-14S1 (C) Semester One 2014