Microeconomic Theory (Masters)
- Cost Benefit Analysis (eg. marginal vs. global analysis; opportunity costs; dynamic programming, search theory)
- Rational Choice under Certainty (eg. preferences & opportunities; transitivity)
- Rational Choice under Uncertainty (eg. expected utility, risk aversion, college application)
- Static Game Theory with Complete Information (eg. Nash equilibria; zero sum games)
- Dynamic Game Theory with Complete Information (eg. subgame perfect equilibrium; bargaining)
- Market equilibrium (eg. Double Auctions, elasticities; the “invisible hand”)
- Government Intervention (eg. taxes & subsidies, quotas, price floors)
- Consumer Theory (eg. Income & substitution effects, the law of demand, willingness-to-pay)
- Producer Theory and Factor Pricing (eg. entry and exit)
- Multi-market Equilibrium and Trade (eg. comparative advantage)
- Public Goods (eg. externalities, Pigouvian taxes, the Coase Theorem)
- Monopoly and Market Power (eg. Inefficiency, Cournot duopoly)
- Oligopoly Pricing (eg. price discrimination)
- Asymmetric Information (Bayesian analysis, signaling, lemons markets, auctions)
- Incentives (eg. moral hazard)
