ECO 301 - Intermediate Microeconomics

Summer 2004


 New: Final grades


Instructor:  Xue Qiao                                                                                     TA: Yoon, Sung Joo
                   Department of Economics                                                                     
                   83 Heady Hall                                                                               Office: Help room (in curtiss hall)
                   (515) 294 6846                                                                             Phone: 294-6638
                   sherryqi@iastate.edu                                                                      sjyoon@iastate.edu

Office Hours: MW 11-12                                                                                OH: TF  1:00-2:30
 

Required book: Microeconomics, by Jeffrey M. Perloff, Third Edition, Irwin, Adisson Wesley Longman Inc., 2004.
 

Syllabus 

 


Lecture Notes:

           Chp1. Introduction(5/17), Math review (I)(5/18), Math review (II)(5/18), Chp2. Demand and Supply(5/19,5.20), Elasticity (5/21) and Tax incidence(5/24) with figures, Chp 4. Preference (5/26), Utility (5/27), Consumer constrained choice (5/28), Class review(6/3) with some Math formulas, Decomposition of effect of a price change and how to derive labor supply curve(6/7,8), Chp 6 (6/9,10), Practice problem III(6/11),Chp 7(6/14,6/15,6/16), Practice IV* & Chp 8 (6/17,6/18,6/21,6/22), class review (II)(6/23), Chp 8(6/28,6/29), Chp 9(6/30,7/1,7/2,7/6), CLASS REVIEW (FINAL)(7/7).

*The order of this practice is wrong. The second page should be the first one, while the first is the second one. I am not very good at scanning. Sorry about the inconvenience. 


In-class exercise/Practice 

                  in-class exercise (I), Practice (I) (Supply and Demand)  and solution Practice (II) &in-class exercise (II) (Tax incidence) ,Practice (III) (Consumer constrained choice)

                                                                                       


Homework assignments/Grades

   First Mid-term Grade/curve (Tentative)                                                                                     Homework 1(I)(II)       Answer key              

    Second Mid-term Grade/Curve                                                                                         Homework 2       Answer key

                                                                                                                                             Homework 3       Answer key

                                                                                                                                             Homework 4       Answer key

                                                                                                                                             Homework 5 (NEW!!!)       

 


Tentative exam schedules:

1st mid term: Friday, June 4th, 9:50-10:50 (Covers from Chp 2 to Chp4)

2nd mid term: Friday, June 25th 9:50-10:50 (Covers from Chp 5 to Chp 7)

Final exam: Friday, July 9th, 2 hours


         Sample Exams(in PDF):

            First mid term  2003, 2003(2)NEW!!; Answers  2003, 2003(2) NEW!!

            Second mid term 2003*, 2003(2); Answers 2003,2003(2)

            Final exams  2003. Answers 2003

*: If you have problems with the last part of the first question, go to Practice IV. That practice question should help a lot for solving this kind of problem.

Note: First mid-term sample exams have some questions regarding to Chp 5, while Second mid-term sample has questions from Chp 6 and Chp 7, so, use mid-term 1 and mid-term 2 to prepare for this coming exam.
 


         Link:

                 If you want to practice more problem sets, go to econ.aplia.com (course key:M5Z5-DFBJ-E9A4)