In this site you will find information about the contents and the instructors of the course, as well as useful materials and references.
BACHELOR DEGREES
Economics, Economics-Law, Economics-International Studies,
Business Administration (BA), BA-Law, BA-Computer Science,
Firms and Technology, and Finance and Accounting.
OBJETIVES
The course provides students with adequate instruments for the
analysis of the behavior of the more representative economic
agents: consumers and firms. The use of calculus makes these
instruments functional and helps fixing the main ideas.
Applications are discussed with the purpose of facilitating
understanding and showing the potential of the analysis.
PRERREQUISITES
Student must be familiar with differential calculus.
TEXTBOOKS
The textbooks that offers a treatment closer to that of the
course are:
Intermediate Microeconomics: An Intuitive Approach with Calculus, by Nechyba Thomas, Cengage Learning.
R. Serrano and M. Feldman: A Short Course in Intermediate
Microeconomics with Calculus, Cambridge UP.
Textbooks that offer a less formal treatment but provide more
motivation and examples are:
H. Gravelle and R. Rees: Microeconomics, Pearson-Prentice
Hall
J. Hey: Intermediate Microeconomics, McGraw-Hill.
R. Pindyck and D. Rubinfeld: Microeconomics, Prentice Hall.
GRADING
The course grade will be calculated on the basis of the grades
obtained in a midterm exam (ME) and in the (ordinary or
extraordinary) comprehensive final exam (FE) according to the
formula:
max{(0.4)*ME+(0.6)*FE, FE}.
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