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COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

VILNIUS BRANCH

MICROECONOMICS FALL SEMESTER 2009

CONTENTS OF THE FINAL EXAM

First part (for those who didnt pass the MID-TERM EXAM and for thosestudents who want to improve their marks)

1. Ten principles of Economics (Chapter 1 GM)2. Thinking like an economist (Chapter 2 GM)3.Interdependence and gains from trade (Chapter 3 GM)4.The market forces of supply and demand (Chapter 4 GM)5.Elasticity and its applications (Chapter 5 GM)6.Supply and Demand and Government Policies (Chapter 6 GM)7.Consumers, producers and the efficiency of markets (Chapter 7 GM)8. Externalities (Chapter 10 GM)9. Public Goods and Common resources (Chapter 11 GM)

Second part (for all the students)

1. The cost of production (Chapter 13 GM book, and the special slidesyou will find in the lecturers blog http://mpuertas.blogspot.com .Click the label cost the production, economies of scale, andmarginal analysis

2. The cost of taxation (Chapter 8 GM book)3. International trade (Chapter 9 GM book)4. The firms in competitive markets (Chapter 14 GM)5. Monopoly (Chapter 15 GM)6. Monopolistic competition (Chapter 17)7. Oligopoly (Chapter 16 GM book)

I remind you the SCHEDULE from now till the end of the course

8 December: In class presentation.

You have to prepare a in-class presentation and hand in as well a essayabout the contents of one of the papers included in the folder that I gave toWilson. If you dont like any of the papers of this folders just search for otherpapers in http://ideas.repec.org.

There are three groups in this course:

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a) Lina, Ricardo and Mantasb) ) Alexandra, Martynas , Genaidis and Lorenas Stankeviciuac) c) Ioana, Erikas, Irina and Gozde

8 of December is also the dead-line for the delivering of your essays andhomework. You have in my blog already the readings for the essaysand two sets of problems.

15 of December: Final exam. The final exam will consist in two blocks ofmultiple choice questions plus a set of questions where you will have todevelop problems, ideas and concepts.

All the slides of G. Mankiw book can be downloaded from the followingwebsite:

http://www.swlearning.com/economics/mankiw/mankiw3e/powerpoint_econ.html and also some of them from my blog http://mpuertas.blogspot.com

Wilson, the Erasmus student from Portugal got the folder with the papersand readings for the in-class presentation. Anyway if you don't like any ofthe papers you can look for other papers in the following website:http://ideas.repec.org

P_U_E_R_T_A_S. J.M.

Lecturer

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