Microeconomic Theory - Honors

Peter J. Wilcoxen
Department of Economics
University of Texas at Austin

General Information About the Course

• Class time, location, content, textbooks and requirements
• Preliminary outline of topics

Announcements

• Current reading: see annotations on the course outline
• Archive of messages to the class mailing list
• About the final exam:
  • There were 80 points possible (85 counting the extra credit section)
  • The high score was 79 and the mean was 69
  • To find out your own score, just send me a short email. I did not to post the scores on the web because there were few enough people in class that it would have been too easy to tell who got what.

Hints and Handouts

• Notes on key topics
• Exams from previous semesters
• Quick reference list of the rules of differentiation (pdf)
• How do I read the files marked (pdf)?

Simulation Games

• Exercises during the semester will ask you to play the games below.
• Splurge (test marketing in the soft drink industry)
• MacroSoft (how to succeed as a monopolist)
• Why don't these games work on my computer?
• Send an anonymous comment about a game

Assignments

1. Pizza Market (in class 8/30)
2. Budget Constraints and Preferences (due 9/13)
3. Splurge (due 9/20)
4. Global Warming (due 9/27)
5. Labor Supply (due 10/4)
6. Human Capital (due 10/18)
7. Fuel Cells (due Extended to 10/27)
8. Value of Information (due 11/1)
9. Macrosoft (due 11/15)
10. Cournot-Nash (due 12/6)