Intermediate Microeconomics

Spring, 2015
Instructor: Xinzheng Shi
Contact: shixzh@cuhk.edu.hk
Office: ELB 934
Office Hour: 3-5pm Friday
Course Website: E-learn System in CUHK
Requirement:
(1) Homework: 5 assignments, which will be posted in the E-learn system
(2) Midterm Exam: February 14 (to replace class on February 16), location and time will
be announced.
(3) Final Exam: According to schools schedule
Grade:
20% from homework; 40% from midterm exam; 40% from final exam. Final grade will
also be adjusted to meet the university rule.
Textbook:
Intermediate Microeconomics: A Modern Approach, by Hal R. Varian. W. W. Norton &
Company; Ninth Edition.
Reference Book
Microeconomics, by Austan Goolsbee, Steven Levitt, and Chad Syverson. Worth
Publisher; First Edition.
Announcement in Advance:
Class on February 16 will be replaced by midterm exam on February 14.
Topics
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Introduction and Overview of the Course

Chapter 1
The Market
Chapter 2
Budget Constraint
Chapter 3
Preferences
Chapter 4
Utility
Chapter 5
Choice
Chapter 6
Demand
Chapter 7
Revealed Preference
Chapter 8
Slutsky Equation
Chapter 9
Buying and selling

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Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 17

Intertemporal Choice
Asset Markets
Uncertainty
Risky Assets
Consumers Surplus
Market Demand
Equilibrium
Technology
Profit Maximization
Cost Minimization
Cost Curves
Firm Supply
Industry Supply
Monopoly
Monopoly Behavior
Factor Markets
Oligopoly
Game Theory
Exchange
Production
Welfare
Externalities
Public Goods
Asymmetric Information
Auctions

Academic honesty and plagiarism

Attention is drawn to University policy and regulations on honesty in academic
work, and to the disciplinary guidelines and procedures applicable to breaches of such
policy
and
regulations.
Details
may
be
found
at
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/.
With each assignment, students will be required to submit a signed declaration that
they are aware of these policies, regulations, guidelines and procedures. For group
projects, all students of the same group should be asked to sign the declaration.
For assignments in the form of a computer-generated document that is principally
text-based and submitted via VeriGuide, the statement, in the form of a receipt, will be
issued by the system upon students uploading of the soft copy of the assignment.
Assignments without the receipt will not be graded by teachers. Only the final version of
the assignment should be submitted via VeriGuide.