ECO 301 - Intermediate Microeconomics
Summer 2004
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.eduOffice 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.
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 4 Answer key
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):
*: 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)