Courses | Caio Lorecchio

Microeconomics

Sun, 01 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Introductory course on Microeconomics for Master students in Institutions and Political Economy.

This course introduces the basic tools of microeconomic analysis to examine individual choices and the resulting market outcomes.

Course page

Enrolled students can access the course page on Campus Virtual.

Introduction to the course

Introduction to the course

Consumer theory

Firm theory

Markets

Microeconomics II (Industrial Organization)

Sun, 01 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Introductory course on Industrial Organization for undergraduate students in Economics.

Students examine the functioning of non-competitive or imperfectly competitive markets and the behavior of the firms operating in these markets. The course is meant to shed light on questions such as:

How do firms acquire and maintain market power?
What are the social implications of firms having market power?
What role is there for public policy?

Course page

Enrolled students can access the course page on Campus Virtual.

Content

Introduction to the course

Introduction to the course

Monopoly

Price discrimination

Imperfect competition

Product differentiation

Advanced Microeconomics (Winter Course)

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Winter course on Microeoconomics for Ph.D. students in Economics.

The objective of this course is to provide students with additional knowledge about standard tools of microeconomic analysis . Topics that will be analyzed include elements of decision theory (preference theory, choice theory decision under uncertainty), consumer theory producer theory, social choice, and welfare.

Syllabus

Bibliography

Hal R. Varian, Intermediate Microeconomics: A Modern Approach, 9th edition, W.W. Norton 2019 • Ariel Rubinstein, Lecture Notes in Microeconomic Theory, 2nd edition, Princeton University Press 2013 • Geoffrey A. Jehle and Philip J. Reny, Advanced Microeconomics, 3rd edition, Pearson 2011 • David M. Kreps, Microeconomic Foundations I, Princeton University Press 2012 • Andreu Mas-Colell, Michael D. Winston and Jerry R. Green, Microeconomic Theory, Oxford University Press 1995

Slides

Microeconomics III (Game Theory)

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Introductory course on Game Theory for undergraduate students in Economics.

Students evaluate basic models of strategic behavior between economic agents, and learn how to identify economic settings of strategic interdependence and analyze them as games.

Syllabus

Syllabus (in Portuguese)

Bibliography

Dutta, P. Strategies and Games, MIT, 1999.
Dixit, A., S. Skeath and D. Reiley, Games of Strategy, Norton, 2015.
Talwalkar, P. The Joy of Game Theory, 2013.
Tadelis, S. Game theory: An Introduction, Princeton University Press, 2013.
Fiani, R. Teoria dos Jogos, Elsevier, 2015.

Courses | Caio Lorecchio

Microeconomics

Course page

Contents

Introduction to the course

Consumer theory

Firm theory

Markets

Microeconomics II (Industrial Organization)

Course page

Content

Introduction to the course

Monopoly

Price discrimination

Imperfect competition

Product differentiation

Advanced Microeconomics (Winter Course)

Syllabus

Bibliography

Slides

Microeconomics III (Game Theory)

Syllabus

Bibliography

Content

Introduction to strategic games

Dominance solvability

Nash equilibria

Mixed strategies

Extensive games

Subgame perfect equilibria

Games of imperfect information

Strategic games of incomplete information

Extensive games of incomplete information

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