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 316-468 General Equilibrium & Welfare Economics

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

2

Coordinator

Professor J Creedy

Prerequisites

316-313 Microeconomics.

Semester

1 (view timetable)

Contact

Three hours of lectures and seminars a week

Subject Description

Exchange with price-taking behaviour (utility and non-utility approaches), exchange without price-taking, the role of numbers in competition, Nash bargaining solutions, social welfare functions, expenditure functions and compensating variations, production of a general equilibrium model, the effects of income and commodity taxes in general equilibrium, labour supply with taxes and transfers, general equilibrium with variable labour supply.

Assessment

A 3-hour examination (80%) and class assignments totalling approximately 2000 words (20%).



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