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Syllabus 2022s
Syllabus 2022s
Price Analysis III
Syllabus, 2022 Spring
Contacts
Ming‐jen Lin Email: mjlin@ntu.edu.tw
Course convener and lecturer
Elliott Fan Email: elliottfan@ntu.edu.tw
Core information
The lectures will be delivered in Mandarin
Course schedule: Saturdays 10:20‐12:10 am (Recitation on Saturdays 9:30‐10:10)
Course venue: TBA
Text: Price Theory, Steven E. Landsburg, 9th ed.
Evaluation distribution:
o Assignments (50%)
o One midterm examination (20%)
o One final examination (30%)
Course description:
In this course students will learn the meaning and relevance of intermediate
microeconomics models and analytical tools relating to market structure, externality,
public goods, common resources, information, auction, behavioral economics, and law
economics.
Course Learning Outcomes: Students are expected to
1. Learn about various types of market failure
2. Be able to model externality and the corresponding roles of government and market
3. Learn about public goods and common resources and how to model these goods
4. Acquire a profound understanding intertemporal choice
5. Be able to incorporate risk and uncertainty into economic analysis
6. Learn about behavioral economics and its recent development
7. Be able to model auction and be able to apply the model in real world cases
8. Acquire a fundamental understanding of law economics
Course outline of Price Analysis II 2022s
Communication with students
Webpage
Slides and other teaching materials will be available on NTU Cool.
Email
If necessary, the lecturers and teaching assistant for this course will contact students
electronically using their official student email address.
Announcements and emergency
Students are expected to check the official course website for announcements about this
course, e.g. changes to timetables or notifications of cancellations, though rarely
happened. Notifications of emergency cancellations of lectures or tutorials will be posted
on the door to the relevant room.
Planned course schedule:
Corresponding
Week Topic
chapter
1 Knowledge and Information 9
2 Holiday
3 Knowledge and Information 9
4 External Costs and Benefits 13
5 External Costs and Benefits 13
6 Common Property and Public Goods 14
7 Common Property and Public Goods 14
8 Midterm examination
9 Norms External
10 Economics of gender External
11 Economic history External
12 Auction External
13 Behavioral economics External
14 Behavioral economics External
15 Economics of Law External
16 Holiday
17 Final examination
Course outline of Price Analysis II 2022s