Undergraduate - UnitECC3840 - Mathematical economics

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6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Business and Economics
Organisational Unit	Department of Economics
Offered	Clayton Second semester 2014 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Dyuti Banerjee

Synopsis

The unit will cover, in mathematical terms, many of the areas treated more intuitively in first-year microeconomics, eg: consumer demand, the theory of the firm, equilibrium and Pareto optimum. However, a significant portion of the lectures will deal with topics not covered earlier, such as non-linear programming, game theory, and dynamic optimisation.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

analyse mathematically many of the basic economic problems introduced in earlier years
apply optimisation analysis to a range of other economic topics.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 30%
Examination: 70%

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Dyuti Banerjee

Workload requirements

3 hours per week

Prerequisites

ECC2000 or equivalent

Prohibitions

ECC4384