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This is a repository for handouts I have written for various classes. They will be organized by class in the approximate order of topics. Many of these papers are focused on a few general topics. I will indicate this after the name of the handout.

 

 

ECON 203—Intermediate Microeconomics I

            Overview

            Introduction—the Great Insights of Rationality

            Nasrettin Hoca and the Ants (Math)

            The Axioms of Utility

            On the Income and the Substitution Effect

            The Envelope Theorem (Math)

            Malthus and the Population Trap

            On the Properties of the Cost Function

            The Oil Crisis—Cheap and Sustainable Energy

            Welfare and Pareto Efficiency (Welfare)

            An Overview of General Equilibrium

            On the Utility Functions we use in General Equilibrium.

            General Equilibrium in an Exchange Economy

            General Equilibrium in the Robinson Crusoe Economy

            General Equilibrium with Constant Elasticity of Substitution Functions

ECON 204—Intermediate Microeconomics II

Decision making under Uncertainty (Uncertainty)

            Bank Runs (Game Theory)

            Voting (Game Theory)

            On the Private Provision of Public Goods.

            On some Effects of Asymmetric Information (Game Theory, Asymmetric Information)

            The Market for Lemons (Game Theory, Asymmetric Information)

            Pricing in Monopoly.

            Cournot and Differentiated Bertrand, the simultaneous and sequential versions. (Game Theory, Oligopoly)

            Free Entry in an Oligopoly (Game Theory, Oligopoly)

            Introduction to Repeated Games (Game Theory)

ECON 225—Mathematics for the Economist

            Overview—A tiny ball. (Math)

            On the Essential operations with Matrices. (Math)

            On Inverting Matrices. (Math)

ECON 439—Game Theory

            Domination and Iterated Domination. (Game Theory)

            A Technical analysis of the Bertrand Game, with asymmetric constant marginal costs and discrete prices (Game Theory, Oligopoly)

            A comparison of Cournot and Differentiated Bertrand (Game Theory, Oligopoly)

            Agenda Control in Committees—with two models of strategic behavior. (Game Theory)

            Asymmetric Information and Adverse Selection (Game Theory, Asymmetric Information)

            On the Equilibria of two Signaling Games (Game Theory)

            On Repeated Games (Game Theory)

 

ECON 504---Graduate Microeconomics II

            Pareto Efficiency and in the Competitive Economy (Welfare)

            On the Incompatibility of Backward and Forward Induction (Game Theory)

            On Imperfect Recall (Game Theory)

            On Price Discrimination

            Non-Degenerate Contracts with Asymmetric Information (Game Theory, Asymmetric Information)

            Optimal Contracts (Game Theory, Asymmetric Information)

            Solving the General Principle-Agent Model (Game Theory, Asymmetric Information)

            On The Impossibility of Mechanism Design (Game Theory, Social Choice)