Smk_microeconomics Schedule & Final Exam

SMK-College of Social Science Ulonų g. 5, LT.08240 Vilnius-LITHUANIA www.smk.lt

COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES VILNIUS BRANCH MICROECONOMICS FALL SEMESTER 2009

CONTENTS OF THE FINAL EXAM First part (for those who didn’t pass the MID-TERM EXAM and for those students who want to improve their marks) 1. Ten principles of Economics (Chapter 1 GM) 2. Thinking like an economist (Chapter 2 GM) 3.Interdependence and gains from trade (Chapter 3 GM) 4.The market forces of supply and demand (Chapter 4 GM) 5.Elasticity and its applications (Chapter 5 GM) 6.Supply and Demand and Government Policies (Chapter 6 GM) 7.Consumers, producers and the efficiency of markets (Chapter 7 GM) 8. Externalities (Chapter 10 GM) 9. Public Goods and Common resources (Chapter 11 GM)

Second part (for all the students) 1.

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The cost of production (Chapter 13 GM book, and the special slides you will find in the lecturer’s blog http://mpuertas.blogspot.com . Click the label cost the production, economies of scale, and marginal analysis The cost of taxation (Chapter 8 GM book) International trade (Chapter 9 GM book) The firms in competitive markets (Chapter 14 GM) Monopoly (Chapter 15 GM) Monopolistic competition (Chapter 17) Oligopoly (Chapter 16 GM book)

I remind you the SCHEDULE from now till the end of the course 8 December: In class presentation. You have to prepare a in-class presentation and hand in as well a essay about the contents of one of the papers included in the folder that I gave to Wilson. If you don’t like any of the papers of this folders just search for other papers in http://ideas.repec.org. There are three groups in this course:

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SMK-College of Social Science Ulonų g. 5, LT.08240 Vilnius-LITHUANIA www.smk.lt

a) Lina, Ricardo and Mantas b) ) Alexandra, Martynas , Genaidis and Lorenas Stankeviciua c) c) Ioana, Erikas, Irina and Gozde 8 of December is also the dead-line for the delivering of your essays and homework. You have in my blog already the readings for the essays and two sets of problems. 15 of December: Final exam. The final exam will consist in two blocks of multiple choice questions plus a set of questions where you will have to develop problems, ideas and concepts. All the slides of G. Mankiw book can be downloaded from the following website: http://www.swlearning.com/economics/mankiw/mankiw3e/powerpoint_econ. html and also some of them from my blog http://mpuertas.blogspot.com Wilson, the Erasmus student from Portugal got the folder with the papers and readings for the in-class presentation. Anyway if you don't like any of the papers you can look for other papers in the following website: http://ideas.repec.org P_U_E_R_T_A_S. J.M. Lecturer

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