Economics 180.371: Fall 2007

TA: Viplav Saini. Office hrs: Mondays, 10am-12noon, Mergenthaler 466
Meeting times and location: Mondays, Tuesdays 1pm. Hodson 313
Announcements
  • MIDTERM: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 (in class)

  • FINAL: Friday, December 14, 2007, 2-5pm

  • Students who wish to take the senior option should give me a hand-written note by MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2007 stating their wish. If I receive no note from you, I will assume that you are taking the final. (I will provide no advice on whether you should take the senior option or not.) The senior option is only available if you are graduating this semester (December 2007).

  • The midterm will cover material up to an including the lecture notes on "Product Differentiation"

  • Answer key for midterm here

  • In-class review session on Monday, December 10, 2007
    • Course syllabus PDF
    Lecture Notes:

  • Costs PDF
  • Perfect Competition/Monopoly PDF
    Supplementary handout on Monopolist's first-order condition PDF
  • Oligopoly I PDF
  • Oligopoly II PDF
  • Product Differentiation PDF
  • Entry PDF
  • Price discrimination PDF
  • Vertical integration and vertical restraints PDF
  • Information PDF
  • Antitrust PDF
  • Regulation PDF
    Problem sets:

  • Problem set 1 (Costs, Perfect competition, Monopoly). DUE: Monday, Sept. 24, 2007 PDF
  • Problem set 2 (Oligopoly). DUE: Monday, October 8, 2007 PDF
  • Problem set 3 (Product differentiation). DUE: Monday, Oct 22, 2007 PDF
  • Problem Set 4 (Entry). DUE: Monday November 12, 2007 PDF
  • Problem Set 5. DUE: Monday November 19, 2007 PDF
  • Problem Set 6. DUE: PDF
  • Problem Set 7. DUE: PDF