Department of Economics

ECON 301 SC ADVANCED MICROECONOMICS 2002 pdf Files

 

The following pdf files for this course are available. More will be added in due course. The ones currently available in at least some form are coloured. Those that aren't coloured are not yet available. The files above the line relate directly to the course. Those below the line are possibly useful reference material of one kind or another that I have written at various times for other purposes. To view the file within your browser just click on the link (i.e., the coloured text). To save the file to a disk right click on the link and choose "Save File As ..."

New material for this year is given first. Then material that was available in previous years. Gradually the first section will become larger, and material that is duplicated in what is being made available for this semester may be removed from last year's section.

• Lecture Notes. Version for reading on screen Updated regularly. You should check this link often. Click the Refresh Button to make sure that you're looking at the most recent version. If at all possible it is better that you use these notes interactively rather than printing them, as I shall be updating them regularly throughout the semester. Also, it's more convenient to download the notes (right-click, i.e., move the cursor over the blue link and click the right mouse button, choose "Save Target As", remember where you save it, and then locate the file in Windows Explorer and click on it. If Acrobat Reader is set up properly on your computer this will start the Acrobat Reader program and you can view the file. You can also view the file from your browser, but this is a bit less satisfactory. The Lecture Notes now include the homework exercises for general equilibrium. 
• Lecture Notes. Version for printing These have been formatted to print on A4 paper. There are fewer pages and the notes fit better on the page. I'll try to keep the content of the versions in sync. Again, the best approach is probably to download the file to your local computer and then view it in the Acrobat Reader. You can print from Acrobat Reader. 

 

The teaching staff is not quite the same as in the four previous years.(Sadly Dr. Matthew Ryan, who taught this course with John Hillas in the past, left us for ANU a bit over a year ago.  Happily, since I first wrote that statement about a year ago, Matthew has accepted an offer to return to Auckland and will be back here next year.)  This year Aaron Schiff, who has been an excellent tutor in the course for the last few years is teaching some of the course. All this means that some of the material below is not directly relevant to this year's course.  If there is some material or questions below that do not appear to have been covered in this year's course, that's probably because they haven't been covered.

• Lecture Notes for Game Theory 1
• Lecture Notes for Game Theory 2
• Lecture Notes for Contracts
• Final Exam 2001
• Assignment for General Equilibrium 2001
• Answer to Assignment for General Equilibrium 2001
• Assignment for Game Theory 2001
• Answer to Assignment for Game Theory 2001
• Assignment for Information 2001
• Answer to Assignment for Information 2001
• Assignment for Auctions 2001.
• Answer to Assignment for Auctions 2001
• Midterm Test 2001
• Midterm Test Solution 2001Unlike many of the provided solutions the questions are not included, so you'll need the questions too to make much sense of this.
• Final Exam 2000
• Assignment for General Equilibrium 2000
• Answer to Assignment for General Equilibrium 2000 
• Assignment for Game Theory 2000
• Answer to Assignment for Game Theory 2000
• Assignment for Information and Contracts 2000
• Answer to Assignment for Information and Contracts 2000
• Assignment for Auctions 2000The assignment consists of one question, that question being very similar to a question asked in the assignment of the last two years, 1998 and 1999. Please have a look at the answer to the 1998 assignment.
• Answer to Assignment for Auctions 2000
• Midterm Test 2000
• Midterm Test Solution 2000 The questions are included. Thus if you print this you won't need to print the test itself.
• Final Exam 1998
• Final Exam 1999 
• Assignment for General Equilibrium 1998
• Answer to 1998 Assignment for General Equilibrium
• 1998 Assignment for Game Theory
• Answer to Assignment for Game Theory
• Assignment for Contracts
• Answer to Assignment for Contracts
• Essay Questions for Auctions 1998
• Answer to Homework Problem 1 
• Homework Problem 2
• Homework Problem 3.
• Answer to Homework Problem 3
• Homework Problem 4
• Answer to Homework Problem 4
• Homework Problem 5
• Answer to Homework Problem 5
• Homework Problem 6
• Answer to Homework Problem 6
• Homework Problem 7
• Answer to Homework Problem 7
• Homework Problem 8
• Answer to Homework Problem 8
• Homework Problem 9
• Answers for the first tutorial exercises
• Answers for the second tutorial exercises
• 1999 Assignment for General Equilibrium
• 1999 Assignment for Game Theory
• Answers to Assignment for Game Theory
• 1999 Assignment for Contracts (corrected version)
• Answers to Assignment for Contracts
• 1999 Assignment for Auctions
• First Game Theory Tutorial Exercises
• Answers to First Game Theory Tutorial Exercises
• Second Game Theory Tutorial Exercises
• Answers to Second Game Theory Tutorial Exercises
• Third Game Theory Tutorial Exercises
• Answers to Third Game Theory Tutorial Exercises
• Game Theory Review Exercise
• First Contracts Tutorial Exercises
• Answers to First Contracts Tutorial Exercises
• Second Contracts Tutorial Exercises
• Answers to Second Contracts Tutorial Exercises

• Essential Math for Micro Notes introducing some standard mathematical facts and techniques, mainly in terms of utility maximisation. The figures in this document have now been fixed. These notes contain more than is expected as a prerequisite for this course, but might be a good source of reference for the single agent theory that we assume.
• Linear AlgebraWhat else? Some notes on linear algebra. Again, these are much more than is required for this course, though strictly less than you will need to study economics seriously.

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Last updated: 14 June 2002