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Microeconomics Comprehensive Examination (June 30th)

June 20th, 2005 – Hello everyone. I will be posting notes, comments, and links which will (hopefully) be helpful in our studies for the microeconomics comp. The notes are continually being reworked and added to, so I won’t bother to post any notifications of updates. If anyone has any comments or anything they want to contribute, please e-mail me at mikeyp05@ucla.edu. Good luck!

June 21st, 2005 – The notes for 201A are not in any coherent order at the moment. I will remedy this eventually, but in the meantime, I hope that it is not too bothersome.

Solutions

(pdf) (tex) Spring 2002
Suggested solutions to questions 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6

Notes

Econ 200 (written for Econ 142)
(pdf) (tex) Concavity and Quasiconcavity

Econ 201A
(pdf) (tex) Propositions and Proofs
A hodgepodge of random propositions that I could not fit into any other set of notes but might be helpful

(pdf) (tex) Elasticity
Properties of elasticity, especially with respect to elasticity of substitution. Scale elasticity.

(pdf) (tex) Kuhn-Tucker Conditions
A very short primer on the Kuhn-Tucker conditions, including the constraint qualification

(pdf) (tex) Envelope Theorem
Motivation and then statement of envelope theorems and a "proof." Examples of its use

(pdf) (tex) Utility Functions
Demand, indirect utility, and expenditure functions for some utility functions.

(pdf) (tex) Concavity/Convexity of Value Functions
There was a lot of emphasis on whether certain value functions were concave/convex. Contains some proofs.

(pdf) (tex) Homotheticity
Definition of homotheticity, alternate (and more manageable) definition. Representative agent model.

(pdf) (tex) Choice Over Time
Intertemporal decisionmaking, Walrasian equilibrium, and life cycle consumption. Incomplete.

Econ 201B
(pdf) Computation of Nash Equilibrium - Rodolfo Campos
(pdf) Extensive Form Games - Rodolfo Campos
(pdf) Correlated Equilibrium - Rodolfo Campos
(pdf) Trembling Hand Perfection - Rodolfo Campos
(pdf) Self-Confirming Equilibrium - Rodolfo Campos
(pdf) Bayesian Equilibrium - Rodolfo Campos
(pdf) Sequential Equilibrium - Rodolfo Campos
(pdf) Mechanism Design - Rodolfo Campos
(pdf) LRSR Folk Theorem - Rodolfo Campos

Econ 201C
(ppt) Concept Map - Marco Huesch

Links

Economics 201A

Junichi Fujimoto's page