課程說明
Course Description
This is a two consecutive semesters course. There are five major parts of subjects to be introduced in this course. The subjects of the first part are about the household. We will focus on individual consumer's decision making with and without uncertainty. In the second part, we will focus on the decision making at the level of individual firm. Given the technological opportunities available to it, how much output will a firm choose to see, and how will the firm go about producing this output? In the third part, the competitive model will be introduced. We will see a competitive market produces results that are in some sense "good". In the fourth, we will see different kinds of market structures. The price and output decisions under different market structrue will be analyzed and compared with those under perfect competition. In the last part, the problem of missing market will be discussed. In the presence of asymmetric information, the markets for certain commodities may not come into existence. Even if markets exist, they may fail to allocate resources efficiently.
指定用書
Textbooks
♠ | 蔡攀龍, 張寶塔, 個體經濟學, 第一版, 2005 |
Pan-Long Tsai, Bao-Taa Chang, Microeconomics, first edition, 2005 |
參考書籍
References
教學方式
Teaching Method
♠ | 指定用書的內容為主為充實部分主題將補充其他教科書的內容! |
This course will mainly deliver the content of the textbook and provide other | |
textbooks’ content as additional reference. |
教學進度
Syllabus
本學期預定講授指定教科書前八章, 平均每兩週講授一章. 每章均有作業, 由學生自行練習無須繳交. 每章課程講授完畢將舉行一次小考.其重點如下所示:
In this semester, the first 8 chapters of the textbooks will be lectured. It takes 2 weeks to teach a chapter. There is homework in every chapter that students can practice by themselves and don’t need to hand in. A quiz will be held after a chapter is finished teaching. The key points are as followed: