| Credit: | 6 |
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| Status: | English Masters - all MEF - elective Semester - winter |
| Course supervisors: | doc. PhDr. Julie Chytilová Ph.D. |
| Course homepage: | JEM176 |
| Literature: | Primer text: Hal R. Varian, Intermediate Microeconomics: A Modern Approach, W.W. Norton &Company, 8th edition, 2010. Many copies are available in the IES library. Other useful textbooks are, for example: - T. Nechyba, Microeconomics: An Intuitive Approach with Calculus, South-Western, Cengage Learning - W. Nicholson/C. Snyder, Microeconomic Theory: Basis Principles and Extensions, South- Western - Schotter, Microeconomics: A Modern Approach, South-Western 2009 The primer text covers all main topics covered in the lectures. Any extensions presented at the lectures and not available in the Varian textbook can be downloaded from SIS. In SIS, you will be able to download the lecture slides, seminar tasks and solutions, upload your home assignments and learn your grade. |
| Description: | The course builds on the introductory microeconomics course (JEB003) and on Microeconomics I (JEB104). It focuses on the theory of producer behaviour and market structure. Specific topics include technology, profit maximization and cost minimization, market structures (perfect competition, monopoly, oligopoly), game theory and behavioural economics. |
