ECON 503 - Microeconomic Theory I

Administrative details

    Date and location: Monday and Wednesday 10.00am-11.50pm, KAP-166

    Office hours: Wednesdays 4.00pm-5.30pm and by appointment; KAP-334A

    Teaching Assistant: Shijie Lu - email shijielu@usc.edu

    Discussion sessions and office hours of Teaching Assistant: T.B.A.

Books

  • Required book - meet your new best friend

    Mas-Colell, A., M. Whinston and J. Green (1995), Microeconomic Theory, Oxford University Press [abbreviated MWG]

  • Recommended books

    Fudenberg, D. and J. Tirole (1991), Game Theory, MIT Press [abbreviated FT]
    Laffont, J.J. and D. Martimort (2002), The Theory of Incentives, Princeton University Press [abbreviated LM]

Syllabus

The syllabus (in PDF version) can be found here

Problem Sets and Reading Material (to be checked regularly)

Midterm date: Wednesday, October 14 from 9am to 12pm

Final date: Wednesday, December 2 from 9am to 12pm

Problem Sets


Extra problems to prepare the Midterm

Extra problems to prepare the Final



Teaching