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Microeconomic Theory-II [1]

Paper Code: 
ECO 221
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Objective: 

To acquaint the students with the process of price and output determination in market, factor price determination and welface analysis.

12.00
Unit I: 
Monopoly and Monopolistic competition

Monopoly: Short run and long run equilibrium, price discrimination, Inter-temporal Price Discrimination, and Peak Load Pricing, Two part Tariff, welfare aspect of Monopoly, monopoly control and regulation, Bilateral Monopoly.                                  Monopolistic competition: Equilibrium of the firm and the group; excess capacity under monopolistic competition.

12.00
Unit II: 
Oligopoly

Non-collusive models of Oligopoly: Cournot, Bertrand, Chamberlin, Paul M. Sweezy and Stakelberg; Collusive oligopoly: Cartels and Price Leadership; Game theory: Cooperative and non-cooperative games, Dominant strategy and Nash Equilibrium.

12.00
Unit III: 
Alternative Theories of the Firm

Full cost pricing rule-Hall & Hitch; Bain’s limit pricing theory; Baumol’s sales revenue maximization model; Marris’s model of managerial enterprise; Williamson’s model of managerial discretion.

12.00
Unit IV: 
Factor Pricing

Marginal productivity theory of Distribution; Factor Pricing under perfect and imperfect markets; Price of fixed factors: Rent & Quasi Rent; Product Exhaustion Theorem; Wage Differential; Collective Bargaining; Elasticity of factor demand.

12.00
Unit V: 
Welfare Economics

Pareto optimality, New welfare economics, Social Welfare Function, First and Second Theorem of Welfare Economics, Market failure- Public Goods and externalities, Theory of second best, Arrow's Impossibility Theorem.

Essential Readings: 
1. Koutsoyiannis, A., Modern Microeconomics, 2nd Edition, Macmillan, 2008.
2. Pindyck, Robert S.; and Rubinfeld, Daniel L., Microeconomics, 8th edition, Pearson          Education, 2017.
3. Varian, Hal R., Intermediate Microeconomics – A Modern Approach, 8th edition ,W.W.      Norton, New York, 2010.
4. Salvatore, Dominick, Microeconomics: Theory and Application, 5th Edition, Oxford          University Press, 2006.

 

Academic Session: 
2018-19 [2]

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[2] https://economics.iisuniv.ac.in/academic-session/2018-19