ECC2000

Intermediate microeconomics

Dr Barry Goss

6 points
* Two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour tutorial per week
* First and second semester
* Clayton
* Prerequisites: ECC1000 or with approval of the lecturer

Objectives On completion of this subject students should be able to analyse decision-making by individual consumers and producers; understand the conditions for allocative efficiency in a general equilibrium framework; analyse price determination in product and input markets under various conditions; analyse and critically evaluate policies designed to affect individual behaviour and market outcomes.

Synopsis Theory of consumer choice, including applications to income-leisure choice and intertemporal consumption; isoquant theory of production; allocative efficiency and competition and monopoly; models of monopolistic competition and oligopoly; input pricing; microeconomic policies to address problems of market failure.

Assessment Written assignment and/or mid-semester test: 30%
* Examination (2 hours): 70%

Prescribed texts

Maurice S C and Phillips O R Economic analysis 6th edn, Irwin, 1992, or
Pindyck R S and Rubinfeld D L Microeconomics 3rd edn, Prentice-Hall, 1995