ECON 441 Advanced Microeconomic Analysis3 hours credit – A study of Advanced economics as it relates to the firm and other individual decision making units in the economy. Students will explore pricing policy, supply and demand issues, and economic drivers of consumer decision processes. Students will discuss the topics in the context of practical business settings.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
The main learning outcome of the course is that students will understand the basic tools of micro-economic theory. Specifically:
- The student should be able to understand and utilize the axioms of consumer rationality.
- The student should be able to understand the relationship between preference orderings, utility functions,and choice functions.
- The student should be able to solve consumer optimization problems.
- The student should be able to define and understand duality theory as it applies to consumer theory. This includes Walrasian demand and indirect utility and Hicksian demand and the expenditure function.
- The student should be able to read and comprehend formal mathematical presentations of games and microeconomic theory.
- The student should distinguish between normal and extensive forms of games.
- The student should be able to define and solve for the Nash equilibria of games.
- The student should be able to define and solve for various refinements to the equilibria of games.