MICRO · 01
Utility & Indifference Curves
Substitution and income effects for normal, inferior, and Giffen goods. Full Hicksian decomposition.
MICRO · 02
Efficiency & Market Failure
Allocative, productive and dynamic efficiency. Private vs social costs. Externalities — consumptive and productive. X-inefficiency.
MICRO · 03
Costs, Revenue & Production
Short and long run costs. Revenue curves. Returns to scale. Economies and diseconomies of scale.
MICRO · 04
Market Structures
Perfect competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition, oligopoly. Profit maximisation. Concentration ratios.
MICRO · 05
Firms' Objectives
Profit maximisation, revenue maximisation, satisficing, managerial objectives. Principal-agent problem.
MICRO · 06
Government Micro Interventions
Taxes, subsidies, price controls, regulation, nationalisation. Correcting market failure.
MICRO · 07
Labour Markets
Marginal revenue product, wage determination, monopsony, trade unions, discrimination.