Topics in Microeconomics

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• apply adequate research methods to address economic policy and research questions in microeconomics
• abstract the essential features of complex systems and to provide a microeconomic model for the evaluation policy and other exogeneous effects

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• the process of formulating microeconomic models and analysing their mathematical properties
• advanced concepts and their theoretical foundations in microeconomics

The module covers topics in economic theory selected from:

• Basic Elements of non-cooperative Game Theory
• The Economics of Uncertainty
• Bargaining
• Auction Theory and Mechanism Design
• Mathematical Economics
• Contract Theory

Lectures will present concepts and theories and offer opportunities to apply them to economic problems, covered in detail in masterclasses.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.