Micro Economics Theory NYU 2003 Ariel Rubisntein

 
Ariel Rubinstein 

Microeconomic Theory I (Fall 2004)

Introduction to Models of Rational Choice

20 hours before the exam 16 hours before the exam

The exam and a solution (composed by Anna and Ariel) is posted.

The grades distrobution:
A/A- B+ B B- C-
6 9 10 2 6

September 2003
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October 2003
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red=classess    green=labs   yellow=exam

Lecturer Ariel Rubinstein     office: 806B  tel: 212-992-9772
TA Anna Ingster           office:  326   tel:  212-998-8177
Date
Class Tue 9:30-11:30

Thu 9:30-11:30

Stern building, room 3-90
Lab Wed 3:30-5:30 Silver Room 809 
Recommended Books David Kreps:  A Course in Microeconmic Theory, Princeton University Press, 1990.

Andreu Mas-Colell, Michael D. Whinston, Jerry R. Green:  Microeconomic Theory, Oxford University Press, 1995.

Course Material All material for the course will be posted on the web (and will not be distributed in class).

Downloading lecture notes requires a "user name" and a "password" which will be given to students in the class and should not be transferred to other students!!!

Exam

The exam on this part of the course will take place on Oct 21st  09:00-12:00.

Previous Exams exam solution
Princeton 1997 ---
Princeton 1998 solution
Princeton 1999 ---
Princeton 2000 solution
Princeton 2001 solution
Princeton 2002 solution
NYU 2003  solution  
NYU 2004  solution  

Plan of the course

The following is the list of 10 topics covered in the course.  The material will spread into the 13 lectures as we progress.

# Date Topic Lecture Notes Solution
 0 9/7 Introduction Preface  
 1 9/7 Preferences L01 S01
 2 9/9  Preferences/Utility L02 S02
3 9/14 Utility    
 4 9/16  Choice L03 S03-part1 +S03-part2
 5 9/21  Choice      
 6  9/23  Consumer's preferences L04 S04
 7 9/28 Demand L05 S05
8 9/30  Demand    
 9 10/5  Indirect Utility L06 S06
10 10/6  Supply L07 S07
11 10/12  Expected Utility L08 S08
12 10/14  Risk aversion L09 S09
13 10/19 "Economic doctrine"      
14 10/21  Exam     

Special tasks
Before Lecture Task Links
Lecture 1 Intransitivities: http://gametheory.tau.ac.il/exp11/
Lecture 2 The Shepard Scale

http://www.sandlotscience.com/Ambiguous/ShpTones1.htm   and http://asa.aip.org/demo27.html   (make sure to listen to both   and   )
Lecture 4 --- set 1 of pre-class questions  http://gametheory.tau.ac.il/student/poll.asp    your course number (for this site) is 430.
Lecture 8 --- set 2of pre-class questions