Unit information: Intermediate Microeconomics in 2008/09

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Unit name Intermediate Microeconomics
Unit code ECON21133
Credit points 20
Level of study I/5
Teaching block(s) Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24)
Unit director Professor. Jolivet
Open unit status Not open
Pre-requisites

ECON10010 Introduction to Microeconomics, ECON11122 Quantitative Methods 1 and ECON12122 Quantitative Methods 2 or equivalent

Co-requisites

None

School/department School of Economics
Faculty Faculty of Social Sciences and Law

Description including Unit Aims

The course tackles some of the simplifying assumptions made in introductory microeconomics and relaxes them. This allows us to observe how consumers and producers behaviour changes when we introduce concepts such as uncertainty, asymmetric information and externalities.