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THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES

CAVE HILL CAMPUS


GRADUATE

COURSE OUTLINE

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DESCRIPTION

Course Title

Microeconomic Theory

Course Code

ECON6030

Academic Unit (s) to offer Course

Department of Economics

Level

Graduate
THE UNIVERSITY
OF THE WEST INDIES
C
2 AVE HILL CAMPUS

Semester
Course Credit Load

Course Prerequisite (s)

None

Eligibility Requirements (where


applicable)

Course Description

Microeconomic theory builds on the intermediate


microeconomics courses taken by students and
attempts to engender a deeper theoretical
understanding of the micro-economy. Particular
emphasis is placed on building models of the
economic agents with as little restricting
assumptions as possible. These models will be
used to provide proofs of some familiar and new
economic theorems.

Course Rationale

This course is designed to provide an introduction


to graduate-level microeconomic theory. Given
the wide cross-section of students enrolled in the
MSc programme, it covers the material that all
graduate economics students should know, but
with an emphasis on practical applications to
business and policymaking.
The main objectives of this course are:

General Goals/Aims

1. to expose students with the major


microeconomic problems and the methods
that have been used to solve them;
2. to learn how to acquire, summarise and
analyse information that can then be used
to address a given problem, and;
3. provide students the opportunity to use
microeconomic tools to address economic
problems.

By the end of the course students should be able to:


1. Derive the profit maximizing supply functions for

representative firms;
2. Identify

the

usual

conditions

for

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(Refer to the Graduate Course Proposal
Guide as you complete this course outline)
functions;
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Specific Learning Outcomes

demand

3. Predicts the impact of price shocks (e.g. new taxes) on


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consumer utility;
4. Solve for the Nash Equilibrium of both static and

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