Professor: Scott Cunningham, PhD (gmail, Baylor mail)
Class schedule: Tuesday/Thursday 2:00-3:15, Cashion 408
Office hours: Tuesday, 8:30am - 10:00am; Thursday, 8:30am - 10:00am (or by appt)
Syllabus
Baylor honor code policy and procedures (link)
Class materials:
Problem set assignments
Exams
Midterm 1, October 11, 2013 (pdf, handwritten solutions)
Midterm 2, November 19/21 (TBA), 2013 (pdf, solutions)
Final, TBA
Tentative schedule
Week 1 (8/27 and 8/29/13): Introduction, Calculus review
Becker Nobel Prize speech (1992, pdf), Math review notes (pdf)
Week 2 (9/3 and 9/5/13): Calculus (cont.)
Problem set 1 due on Friday at 2:30pm:
Tuesday math review notes (pdf, envelope theorem excel)
Week 3 (9/11 and 9/13/13): Utility (ch. 3) and Utility maximization (ch. 4)
Week 4 (9/17/13 and 9/19/13): Income and substitution effects (ch. 5)
Problem set 2 due on Friday 9/20 by 5:00pm (slide under my door)
Week 5 (9/24/13 and 9/26/13): Income and substitution effects (cont.), and
Demand relationships among goods (ch. 6)
Week 6 (10/1/13 and 10/3/13): Demand relationships (cont.), Production (ch. 9)
Problem set 3 due on Tuesday 10/1 (in class); Jensen and Miller (2008, pdf)
Problem set 4 due on Friday 10/4 (by 5:00pm in my office); Borcherding and
Silberberg (1978, pdf)
Week 7 (10/8/13 and 10/10/13): Production (cont.)
Midterm 1 on Thursday, October 10, 2013 (pdf, handwritten solutions)
Week 8 (10/15/13 and 10/17/13): Production (cont). Cost (cont.)
Problem set 5 due Friday 10/18 (by 5:00pm)
Week 9 (10/22/13 and 10/24/13): Cost (cont.)
Short-run-cost functions lecture (10/24/13, pdf)
Week 10 (10/29/13 and 10/31/13): Cost (cont.); Profit (ch. 11)
Problem set 6 due Tuesday 10/29 (in class)
Week 11 (11/5/13 and 11/7/13): Game theory (ch. 8)
Week 12 (11/12/13 and 11/14/13): Game theory (cont.)
Week 13 (11/19/13 and 11/21/13):
Midterm 2 on Tuesday, November 19, 2013
CLASS CANCELED on Thursday November 21, 2013
Week 14 (11/26/13 and 11/28/13):
CLASS CANCELED on Tuesday November 26, 2013
CLASS CANCELED on Thursday November 28, 2013 (Thanksgiving holiday)
Week 15: TBA
Week 16: TBA
Final exam