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[ 572GVWLEMIU20 ] IK Introductory Microeconomics

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Workload Education level Study areas Responsible person Hours per week Coordinating university
3 ECTS B1 - Bachelor's programme 1. year Economics Gerald Pruckner 2 hpw Johannes Kepler University Linz
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Pre-requisites (*)keine
Original study plan Bachelor's programme Economics and Business 2020W 2020W
Objectives Students will acquire skills to explore basic problems and topics in the area of microeconomics
Subject
  • Base concepts: markets, supply and demand, elasticities
  • Consumer preferences, budget constraint and optimal consumer choice
  • Individual and market demand, consumer surplus
  • Firms, production function and cost budgeting
  • Profit-maximization and competitive supply
  • Market supply and producer surplus, market equilibrium
  • Welfare aspects of competitive markets
  • Monopoly
  • Monopolistic competition and oligopoly
  • Models by Cournot, Bertrand, and Stackelberg
Criteria for evaluation Practice exercises, tests, written examinations (selected by the course instructor)
Methods Lecture, practice exercises, homework assignments...

Methods are subject to the course instructor

Language German / English
Study material Pindyck / Rubinfeld, Microeconomics, International Edition
Changing subject? No
On-site course
Maximum number of participants 40
Assignment procedure Assignment according to priority
MuSSS Linz 2022WS2
Number obligatory dates     0    
MuSSS assistance     Astrid Horejs    
Number participants (min/max)     12 / 40    
Course fee     € 36,00    
Online materials and media        
Dates    
DayDateTimeRoomTopic
Fri25.11.202215:30 - 17:00ZoomVorbesprechung
Thu01.12.202215:30 - 17:00ZoomHausübung 1
Thu15.12.202215:30 - 17:00ZoomHausübung 2
Thu12.01.202315:30 - 17:00ZoomHausübung 3
Thu19.01.202315:30 - 17:00ZoomHausübung 4
Thu26.01.202315:30 - 17:00ZoomHausübung 5
Fri03.02.202313:45 - 15:15HS 9Klausur
Fri24.02.202313:45 - 15:15HS 15Nachklausur