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Microeconomics and Policy Analysis
Fall 2000

Professor Rajeev Dehejia

Lectures: MW 11.00am — 12.50pm
Math Review: R 4.10pm — 6.00pm
Lab: F 11.00am — 12.50pm

Telephone: (212) 854-4659
Office: 807B IAB

Email: [email protected]
Office Hours: MW 1-2pm 
TA: Bernard Wee
[email protected]
(917) 545-4291
Office Hours:
T 11am-12pm, F 10-11am

PA: Jennifer Sly
[email protected] 
(212) 316-8997
Office Hours: 
M 1-3pm, 501A IAB

TA and Tutorials

The teaching assistant will run a weekly session to review class material and help with the problem sets, and in addition will schedule weekly office hours.  The program assistant will have weekly office hours, and before the midterm will run weekly math review sessions.

Attending class

All dates are provisional and subject to change. Plan on attending all the classes. Do not purchase air tickets that conflict with class dates. Dates of the midterm, problem sets, and group projects may change depending on the pace of the lectures.

Final Exam
Dec 11
11am-2pm
Room 405 IAB

Extra office hours

Fri, Dec 8, 2-4pm, 901 IAB
Bernard

Sun, Dec 10, 2-4pm, 901 IAB
Bernard

This Week
Dec 4, 6

Profit maximization

Groups 8 presentation

Final Review

Lab
8 Dec

Final Review

September 6 to Introduction, or Why (not) to study Microeconomics; 
Demand and supply review (or The Ethereal ‘X’); Math review.
Reading: PR chapters 1,2.

September 11 Preferences, budget constraints, and Marshallian demand, or Let’s go optimize;
Reading: PR chapter 3.
September 13 Income and substitution effects, Hicksian demands, or Ezimitpo og s’tel.
Reading: PR chapter 4.1-4.2.

September 18 Market demand, or Under the big top.
Reading: PR chapter 4.3, 4.6, appendix.
September 20 Labor supply, or You say lee-sure, I say leshure is but twenty-four minus work.
Reading: handed out.

September 25 Exchange economies, or That’s Do ut des, not Quid pro quo. 
Reading: PR chapter 16.1.
September 27 Efficiency, equity, or Paradise gained (or First the good news).
Reading: PR chapter 16.2-16.6.

October 2 Game Theory, or Come on down!
Reading: PR chapter 13.1-13.3.
October 4 Group 1 presentation.

October 9 --
October 11 Group 2 presentation.

October 16 Inefficiencies, market failures, or Paradise lost (or Then the bad news). 
Reading: PR chapter 16.7. 
October 18 Time (and it’s about time!)
Reading: PR chapter 15.

October 23 Midterm
October 25 Midterm review.

October 30 Uncertainty (or How to keep your feet warm).
Reading: PR chapter 5. 
November 1 Group 3 presentation. 

November 6 University holiday (Election Monday).
November 8 Asymmetric Information, or What you don’t know could kill you.
Reading: PR chapter 17.

November 13 Group 4 presentation.
November 15 An introduction to production, technology, scale, or Waste not.
Reading: PR chapter 6.

November 20 Group 5 presentation.
November 22 --

November 27 Cost, cost minimization, or Make it cheap.
Reading: PR chapter 7.
November 29 Group 6 presentation. Group 7 presentation.

December 4 Profit, profit maximization, supply, or Pi-max time.
Reading: PR chapter 8.
December 6 Group 8 presentation. Review.

December 11 Final Exam