Vanessa V. Ribeiro

Doctoral Candidate

                                                                                                                                    

ARSC 1432 Microeconomics Co-seminar

MASP-SASC -McNeill Program

Spring 2009

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

1. Change on semester schedule: review for your second midterm on March 12th.

 

Tentative Semester Schedule:

Week #:

Day

Topic

 

Assignments:

 

 

Short Answer

Review Questions

 

Handout

Question

Answer

Questions

Answer

1

13-Jan

Production possibilities frontier

 

 

 

 

 

 

15-Jan

Comparative Advantage

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

20-Jan

Demand

 

 

 

 

 

 

22-Jan

Supply

 

 

 

 

 

 

3

27-Jan

Calculating Equilibrium

 

 

 

 

 

 

29-Jan

Elasticity

 

Elasticity

 

 

 

 

4

3-Feb

Introduction to the class

 

 

 

 

 

 

5-Feb

Elasticity of demand

 

 

 

 

 

 

5

10-Feb

Price ceiling and price floor

 

 

 

 

 

 

12-Feb

Test 1

 

Test 1

 

 

 

 

6

17-Feb

Demand curve=marginal benefit curve

 

Willingness to pay

 

 

 

 

19-Feb

Marginal cost, production decision rule: MC=P

 

Willingness to accept

 

 

 

 

7

24-Feb

Consumer and Producer Surpluses

 

CS & PS

SAP

 

 

 

26-Feb

International trade: application of market efficiency

 

Int’l Trade

SAP

 

 

 

8

3-Mar

No class

 

 

 

 

 

 

5-Mar

Distinguishing accounting and economic costs, production function, diminishing marginal product, total cost

 

 

 

 

 

 

9

10-Mar

Distinguishing accounting and economic costs, production function, diminishing marginal product, total cost

 

 

 

 

 

 

12-Mar

Review for midterm 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

10

17-Mar

Marginal cost, increasing marginal cost, fixed and variable costs, average and marginal costs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

19-Mar

Relationship between average and marginal costs

 

 

 

 

 

 

11

24-Mar

SPRING BREAK!!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

26-Mar

 

 

 

 

 

 

12

31-Mar

Firm decision-making: Profit maximization

 

 

 

 

 

 

2-Apr

Firm decision-making: Competitive Firm

 

 

 

 

 

 

13

7-Apr

Review for test 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

9-Apr

Test 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

14

14-Apr

Short-run VS long-run market equilibrium

 

 

 

 

 

 

16-Apr

Monopoly

 

 

 

 

 

 

15

21-Apr

Market failure: externalities

 

 

 

 

 

 

23-Apr

FCQs

 

 

 

 

 

 

16

28-Apr

Review for final exam

 

 

 

 

 

 

30-Apr

Review for final exam

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                  *FCQs are the Faculty Course Questionnaire. It is an opportunity for students to evaluate the TA (instructors and professors as well) and recitations and make suggestions for improvement. For more info go to: http://www.colorado.edu/pba/fcq/BkgrInfo.html

 

 

Handouts:

 

 

Co-seminar session:

         Section            Day                    Time                   Location

ARSC 1432 761           TR          4:30 PM - 5:30 PM      WLRD 309

 

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Office and Office hours: Room 311, Willard Building                                                        

                      Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 2pm to 3:30pm.                    

                                                                                                                                               

Office phone number: (303)                                                              

                                                                                                                                               

E-mail:  Ribeiro@colorado.edu (preferred)                  

 

Links:

v     Microeconomics Co-seminar syllabus

v     Economics drop-in tutorial lab info

 

Last update: March 5th, 2009.