Microeconomic Analysis

Microeconomic Analysis

1 Theory of Consumer Behaviour- Basic Themes

  1. The Basic Themes
  2. Consumer Choice Concerning Utility
  3. Introduction to Demand Analysis
  4. Ordinal Theory: Indifference Curve Approach
  5. Concepts of Income and Substitution Effects
  6. Slutskyโ€™s Theorem
  7. Compensated Demand Curve

2 Theory of Demand

  1. Preference and Utility
  2. Indifference Curve and Budget Set
  3. Utility Maximisation Problem (UMP)
  4. Expenditure Minimisation Problem (EMP)
  5. Decomposition of Price Effect
  6. Duality Relations

3 Theory of Demand- Some Recent Developments

  1. Recent Developments in Demand Analysis: Linear Expenditure Systems
  2. Theory of Consumer Surplus
  3. Theory of Inter-Temporal Consumption
  4. Elementary Theory of Price Formation: Demand-Supply Analysis
  5. Cobweb Model
  6. Lagged Adjustment in Interrelated Markets

4 Theory of Production

  1. Short Period Analysis
  2. Returns to a Factor
  3. Long Period Analysis
  4. Iso-quant
  5. Elasticity of Substitution
  6. Returns to Scale
  7. Homogeneous Production Function

5 Theory of Cost

  1. Concept of Short-Run and Long-Run
  2. Traditional Theory of Cost
  3. Economics of Scale
  4. Modern Theory of Cost

6 Production Economics

  1. Production Functions
  2. Technical Progress
  3. Cost Functions
  4. Profit Maximisation
  5. Cost Minimisation and Profit

7 Perfect Competition

  1. Perfect Competition
  2. Short-run Equilibrium of Firm
  3. Supply Curve of Firm and Industry
  4. Short-run Equilibrium of Industry
  5. Long-run Equilibrium of Firm and Industry

8 Monopoly

  1. Definition of a Monopoly
  2. Factors Behind Generation of Monopoly
  3. Demand and Revenue Functions of a Monopolist
  4. Cost Function in Monopoly
  5. Equilibrium of the Monopolist
  6. Price Discrimination
  7. Welfare Aspects of Monopoly
  8. Monopoly Control and Regulations
  9. Multi-plant Monopolist
  10. Bilateral Monopolist

9 ฬ†Monopolistic Competition

  1. Features of Monopolistic Competition
  2. General Approach to Equilibrium
  3. Chamberlainโ€™s Approach to Equilibrium
  4. Selling Costs
  5. Excess Capacity under Monopolistic Competition
  6. Criticism of Monopolistic Competition

10 Oligopoly

  1. Oligopoly: Homogenous Product
  2. Oligopoly: Differential Products
  3. Oligopsony

11 General Equilibrium- Pure Exchange Model

  1. A Pure Exchange Economy
  2. Walrasian Equilibrium
  3. Brouwerโ€™s Fixed Point Theorem
  4. Mechanism for Attaining Walrasian Equilibrium
  5. Competitive Equilibrium and Pareto Efficiency

12 General Equilibrium with Production

  1. Set Up of the Problem
  2. Edgeworth Box for Production
  3. Production Possibility Frontier (PPF)
  4. Consumption Optimisation
  5. Product-mix Efficiency and the Optimum
  6. General Equilibrium Price Setting and Efficiency
  7. Link between Factor and Goods Markets
  8. Link between Goods and Factor Prices

13 Pigovian vs Paretian Approach

  1. Pigovian Approach
  2. Pareto Optimal Conditions
  3. Two Fundamental Welfare Theorems

14 Social Welfare Function

  1. Value Judgment
  2. Social Welfare Function
  3. Compensation Principle
  4. Kaldor-Hicks Criteria
  5. Scitovsky Reversals and the Double Criteria
  6. William Gormanโ€™s Intransitivity Problem
  7. Samuelsonโ€™s Criteria
  8. An Appraisal

15 Imperfect Market Externality and Public Goods

  1. Inability to Obtain Optimum Welfare
  2. Externality
  3. Public Goods and Market Failure

16 Social Choice and Welfare

  1. Theory of Second Best
  2. Arrowโ€™s Impossibility Theorem
  3. Rawlsโ€™ Theory of Justice
  4. Equity-Efficiency Trade-off

17 Choice in Uncertain Situations

  1. Behaviour Under Uncertainty: Some Observations
  2. Lotteries
  3. Expected Utility Theory
  4. vNM Expected Utility Theory
  5. Expected Utility Theory and Risk Aversion
  6. Risk Aversion and Insurance

18 Insurance Choice and Risk

  1. Reduction of Risk
  2. Problems in Insurance Markets
  3. Modelling Insurance Market with Adverse Selection

19 Economics of Information

  1. The Principal-Agent Framework
  2. Moral Hazard Problem
  3. Adverse Selection in Markets
  4. Hidden Information Modelling
  5. Efficiency Wage Model

20 Static Games of Complete Information

  1. Some Examples of Strategic Game
  2. Classifications of Games
  3. Rules of the Game
  4. Normal Form of Game under Complete Information
  5. Solution Concept under Dominant Strategy
  6. Solution Concept under Nash Equilibrium in Pure Strategy
  7. Mixed Strategy Nash Equilibrium

21 Static Games with Complete Information- Applications

  1. Game Theoretic Applications in Common Property Resources
  2. Best Response Function
  3. Quantity Competition and Price Competition
  4. War of Attrition
  5. Hotelling’s Location Game

22 Dynamic Games with Complete Information

  1. Extensive-form Representation of Dynamic Games
  2. Strategies in Extensive-form
  3. Dynamic Games of Complete and Perfect Information
  4. Backward Induction
  5. Strategies in Dynamic Games with Complete Information
  6. Subgames
  7. Subgame-Perfect Nash Equilibrium
  8. Application 1: Stackelberg Competition
  9. Application 2: Sequential Bargaining
  10. Dynamic Games of Imperfect Information
  11. Imperfect Information and Backward Induction
  12. Subgames with Imperfect Information
  13. Strategies with Imperfect Information
  14. Finding SPNE with Imperfect Information
  15. Repeated Games
  16. Two-Stage Repeated Games
  17. Finitely Repeated Games
  18. Infinitely Repeated Games
  19. Application 3: Collusion between Cournot Duopolists

23 Static Games of Incomplete Information (with Application to Auction)

  1. The Idea of Incomplete Information
  2. Beliefs
  3. Bayesian Games
  4. Application to Auctions

24 Dynamic Games with Incomplete Information- Perfect Bayesian Equilibrium

  1. Problem with SPE
  2. Requirements of Perfect Bayesian Equilibrium
  3. Beliefs
  4. Sequential Rationality
  5. Assessment and Perfect Equilibrium
  6. Weak Sequential Equilibrium
  7. Consistent Assessment Off-the-Path Equilibrium

25 Signaling Games and their Application

  1. Modeling Signaling Games
  2. A Second Approach to Equilibrium Analysis: Pooling and Separating Equilibria
  3. Application: Job Market Signaling

26 Refinements of Perfect Bayesian Equilibrium

  1. Sequential Equilibrium is not Stringent Enough
  2. Signaling Games
  3. The Intuitive Criterion
  4. The Intuitive Criterion with Two Types of Agents and only Two Responses
  5. The Divinity Criterion
  6. Spenceโ€™s Labour Market Signaling Game
  7. When Do We Need to Apply the D1-Criterion?