Microeconomics I - JEB104

• Title: Microeconomics I
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Economic Studies (23-IES)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:4/2, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: 185 / 159 (200)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Additional information: http://ies.fsv.cuni.cz/cs/syllab/JEB104
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: PhDr. Lenka Šťastná, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Tersoo David Iorngurum; Hieu Nguyen Thi Hoang, M.A.; PhDr. Lenka Šťastná, Ph.D.
• Class: Courses for LLEP; Courses for incoming students
• Pre-requisite : {Group of prerequisites: in order to fulfill the Mathematics requirement, students can complete either JEB005 or JEB118}, JEB003
• Is incompatible with: JEB007
• Is pre-requisite for: JEB108, JEB016, JEB147
• Is interchangeable with: JEB007
• In complex pre-requisite: JEB053

Annotation

English

Last update: PhDr. Lenka Šťastná, Ph.D. (24.10.2019)

The course builds on introductory microeconomics course (JEB003, JEB101), extends the old and introduces new concepts while standard analytic methods are applied. It focuses on the theory of consumer behavior. Specific topics include consumer preferences, optimal choice, consumer demand, revealed preferences, measurement of welfare changes, choice under uncertainty, intertemporal choice.

Czech

Last update: PhDr. Lenka Šťastná, Ph.D. (29.01.2021)

Kurz navazuje na v úvodní kurz mikroekonomie (JEB003,EB101), rozšiřuje známé a představuje nové koncepty. Je zaměřen na spotřebitelské chování, zejména na preference, optimální volbu spotřebitele, spotřebitelskou poptávku, projevené preference, měření změn blahobytu, spotřebitelský výběr za nejistoty a spotřebitelovo rozhodování v čase.

Syllabus

English

Last update: PhDr. Lenka Šťastná, Ph.D. (31.01.2023)

Preliminary structure of the course

 

Date	Hours	Topic	Varian, Chapter
13.02.2023	12:30-13:50	Lecture 1: Introduction to microeconomics	1
13.02.2023	14:00-15:20	Lecture 2: Consumer theory: Budget constraint	2
14.02.2023	12:30-13:50	Tutorial session 1 and 2 (Group 1)
15.02.2023	17:00-18:20	Tutorial session 1 and 2 (Group 2)
20.02.2023	12:30-13:50	Lecture 3: Consumer preferences	3
20.02.2023	14:00-15:20	Lecture 4: Utility, utility function, monotonic transformation	4
21.02.2023	12:30-13:50	Tutorial session 3 (Group 1)
22.02.2023	17:00-18:20	Tutorial session 3 (Group 2)
27.02.2023	12:30-13:50	Lecture 5: Consumer choice, Kuhn-Tucker conditions	5
27.02.2023	14:00-15:20	Tutorial session 4 – Utility (all groups)
28.03.2023	12:30-13:50	Tutorial session 5 (Group 1)
01.03.2023	17:00-18:20	Tutorial session 5 (Group 2)
06.03.2023	12:30-15:20	Lecture 6: Demand and elasticities	6, 15
07.03.2023	12:30-13:50	Tutorial session 6 (Group 1)
08.03.2023	17:00-18:20	Tutorial session 6 (Group 2)
13.03.2023	12:30-15:20	Lecture 7: Hicksian decomposition of SE and IE	8
13.03.2023	12:30-13:50	Lecture 8: Expenditure minimization and Hicksian demand
14.03.2023	12:30-13:50	Tutorial session 7 (Group 1)
15.03.2023	17:00-18:20	Tutorial session 7 (Group 2)
20.03.2023	12:30-13:50	Lecture 9: Duality (Nechyba, ch.10 & Gravelle-Rees, ch. 3)
20.03.2023	14:00-15:20	Tutorial session 8 – Expenditure minimization (all groups)
21.03.2023	12:30-13:50	Tutorial session 9 (Group 1)
22.03.2023	17:00-18:20	Tutorial session 9 (Group 2)
27.03.2023	12:30-15:20	Lecture 10: Welfare evaluation of economic changes	14
28.03.2023	12:30-13:50	Tutorial session 10 (Group 1)
29.03.2023	17:00-18:20	Tutorial session 10 (Group 2)
03.04.2023	12:30-15:20	Lecture 11: Revealed preferences	7
03.04.2023	14:00-15:20	Lecture 12: Slutsky decomposition of SE and IE	8
04.04.2023	12:30-13:50	Tutorial session 11 (Group 1)
05.04.2023	17:00-18:20	Tutorial session 11 (Group 2)
10.04.2023		No class (Easter Monday)	7
11.04.2023	12:30-13:50	Tutorial session 12 (Group 1)
12.04.2023	17:00-18:20	Tutorial session 12 (Group 2)
17.04.2023	12:30-13:50	Lecture 13: Buying and selling	9
17.04.2023	14:00-15:20	Lecture 14: Labor supply	9
18.04.2023	12:30-13:50	Tutorial session 13, 14 (Group 1)
19.04.2023	17:00-18:20	Tutorial session 13, 14 (Group 2)
24.04.2023	12:30-13:50	Lecture 15: Decision-making over time	10
24.04.2023	14:00-15:20	Lecture 16: Decision-making under uncertainty I	12
25.04.2023	12:30-13:50	Tutorial session 15 (Group 1)
26.04.2023	17:00-18:20	Tutorial session 15 (Group 2)
01.05.2023		No class  (public holiday)
02.05.2023	12:30-13:50	Lecture 17: Decision-making under uncertainty II
03.05.2023	17:00-18:20	Tutorial session 16, 17 (Group 2)
08.05.2023		No class (public holiday)
09.05.2023	12:30-13:50	Tutorial session 16, 17 (Group 2)
10.05.2023	17:00-18:20	No tutorial (Rector's Day)