Microeconomics

Ariel Rubinstein

 Micro Economic Theory (Semester A 1999-2000)

The exam and the solution are posted.   Grades will be posted in a few days.

Period	Fall 1999
Lecturer	Ariel Rubinstein      (office hour-please please call 640-9601 to coordinate) Click here for my page.
Instructor	Yoram Hamo    (641-4950)
Administrative problems	Noa Procianoy   (640-9903)
Date	Class Mon 18-20 Naftaly 004 Class Thu 16-18 Naftaly 004 Targil Thu 18-20 Naftaly 004
List of Students	The list contains only the studnets who expressed interest that their name, tel# and e-mail address will appear in the list.   Thanks to Yaron who organized the list.
Books	The Book Details David Kreps:  A Course in Microeconmic Theory, Princeton University Press, 1990 acses Andreu Mas-Colell, Michael D. Whinston, Jerry R. Green:  Microeconomic Theory, Oxford Univ Press, 1995. acses
Regulations	A student must hold an e-mail address and a web-access.  All material for the course will be posted on teh web (and will not be distributed in class). Downloading lecture notes and problems sets requires a "user name" and a password which will be givne to studnets in the class!!! Some "Shiurey Hashlama" will be held on Fridays 12:00-13:30
Exam Date:  25 Jan 00	exam solution grades 1994A --- 1997/8 A solution grades 1997/8  B page 1 page 2   1998/9 A solution grades 1998/9 B solution   1999/00 A solution 1999/00 A
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Plan of the course

The course is partitioned to two parts.  In the first part (about 80% of the term) we study the "rational economic agent": the rational man, the consumer, the decision maker under uncertainty etc.  In the second part we study models of competitive equilibrium.

#	Date	Topic	Reading in Kreps	Reading in MWG	Lecture Notes	Problem set	Solution
1	8/11	Rational Choice: Preferences	1-32	Ch 1.	L01	PS9901	S9901
2	11/11	Prefeerences -Utility
3	15/11	Utility			L02	PS9902	S9902
4	18/11	Choice			L03	PS9903	S9903
5	22/11	Criticism on Rationality
6	25/11	Consumer's preferences	32-45	Ch 3 A,B,C,D	L04	PS9904	S9904
7	29/11	Classes of consumer's preferences
8	2/12	Demand	45-63	Ch 2, 3D-E
9	6/12	Rationalizing Demand			L05	PS9905	S9905
10	9/12	more on Demand.
11	13/12	Indirect Utility			L06	PS9906	S9906
12	16/12	LAST lecture on demand.			L06a	PS9906a	S9906a
13	16/12	1/2 a lecture on supply			L07	PS9907	S9907
14	20/12	Expected Utility	72-81 (115-122)	6.A-B
15	23/12	Expected Utility			L08	PS9908	S9908
16	27/12	EU
17	30/12	Risk aversion	81-98	6 C-D	L09	PS9909	S9909
18	3/1
19	6/1
20	10/1	competitive equilibrium	Ch 6	15 A,B   17 A,B,C	L11	PS9911	S9911
21	13/1	competitive equilibrium
22		existence
23	17/1	welfare propertieshe		16	L12	PS9912	S9912
24	20/1	core

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