COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MICRO ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
EKO 5079 MICRO ECONOMIC ANALYSIS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Econometrics

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BAŞAK KARŞIYAKALI

Offered to

Econometrics

Course Objective

The main objective of the course is to introduce based method mathematics approaches examining economic theory(goods, factor markets and prosperity financial) and analysis of behaviors of consumers and producers in the scale of strategic.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to explain principles of consumer utility-maximizing.
2   To be able to separate deterministic and stochastic of economic facts
3   To be able to solve analyses goods and factor markets, oriented firms and industrial analyses using method mathematics in incomplete competition(monopoly, oligapoly, competition with monopoly)
4   To be able to measure and assess competition powers of firms and industries
5   To be able to discuss exmaples of firms and industries taken in terms of markets by using behavioral economic discipline
6   To be able to explain simultaneously analyses of general equilibrium taking references as goods and factor markets oriented learning outputs
7   To be able to analysis critical aprroaches directed to Neoclassic discipline and compare it to findings of Neoclassic discipline

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Concepts and method analyses for optimization of behaviors of consumer and producer
2 Consumer behavior Theory, Production Technology and costs, revision oriented production and quotation in pure competition goods market
3 Theory of the firm-comparative analysis: pıre competition and analyses to monopoly markets
4 Analysis to factor markets
5 The theory of firm and activity economic
6 Simultaneous equilibrium analyses of goods and factor markets
7 Applications regarding to observations(primary data andsecondary data) obtained from firm and industries
8 Midterm
9 General equilibrium and prosperity economic
10 The theory of limit quotation and the theory of management
11 Criticism of the theory of Neoclassic firm and quotation of average cost
12 Economy of knowledge
13 Assessing current term projects
14 Assessing current term projects

Recomended or Required Reading

Chiang, Alpha (1984), Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics, 3rd Ed., McGraw-Hill, New York.
Frank, Robert H. (1994), Microeconomics and Behavior, 2nd Ed., McGraw-Hill, New York.
Freeman, C. & L. Soete (2003), Yenilik Iktisadı, Çev: E. Türcan, TÜBITAK Yayınları, Ankara.
Gibbons, Robert (1997), "An Introduction to Applicable Game Theory", Journal of Economic Perspectives 11 (1), 127-149.
Kohler, H. (1990), Intermediate Microeconomics: Theory and Applications, 3rd Ed., Scott, Foresman and Company, USA.
Koutsoyiannis, A. (1979), Modern Microeconomics, 2nd Ed., The MacMillan Press, London.
Nicholson, Walter (1990), Intermediate Microeconomics and its Application, 5th Ed., The Dryden Press, USA.
Pindyck, R. & Rubinfeld, D. (2002), Microeconomics, 6th Ed., Pearson Education International, USA.
Türkbal, A. (1983), Mikroiktisat: Fiyat Teorisi, 2. Baskı, Atatürk Üniv. Yay. No: 622, Erzurum.
Ünsal, Erdal (2001), Mikro Iktisat, Imaj Yay., Ankara.



Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

To estimate production, cost, income and profit functions within framework of objective function by using course boks, programs of mathematical economics(Maple, Matematica, Matematikçi). To discuss behaviors of firms by using critical methods.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.40


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm final 1 30 30
Preparations before/after lectures 1 30 30
Midterm 1 3 3
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 131

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8
LO.111
LO.211
LO.311
LO.411
LO.511
LO.611
LO.711