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316-402 Advanced Microeconomics | |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 2 |
Coordinator | Dr C Hyde |
Prerequisites | 316-312 Macroeconomics and 316-313 Microeconomics. |
Semester | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | Three hours of lectures and seminars per week |
Subject Description | This course provides students with an introduction to advanced topics and recent innovations in microeconomics. The content involves three core parts: advanced classical microeconomics, including general equilibrium analysis under both certainty and uncertainty, duality and advanced topics in welfare; decision-making under uncertainty, including search models, critiques of expected utility theory and recent advances in alternative theories of decision making under uncertainty; and game theory including both non-cooperative and cooperative game theory, relevant solution concepts and mechanism design. |
Assessment | A 2-hour examination (60%); and class assignments of up to 3000 words (40%). |
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