ECN 104:
Introduction to Microeconomics
Winter Term, 2003

Contents:

Instructor: Kate Rybczynski

e-mail: beynonk@qed.econ.queensu.ca

Office Hours: TBA

Course Web Page: http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/pub/students/beynon/ECN104.html

* Course Description

* Course Outline

* Course Materials

* Student Evaluation and Assignment Information

* Discussion Board

* Links to Other Useful Sites

Course Description

ECN 104 Economics: Introductory Microeconomics Lect: 3 hrs. This course is concerned with basic concepts of demand and supply, the theory of the firm, and distribution of income. It includes a study of business behaviour and decision making under various market conditions: pure competition, oligopoly, monopolistic competition, monopoly.


Course Outline:

Topic Chapter Week Comments
Introduction to Microeconomics 1 1
Scarcity and Choice
2
2-3
 Assignment 1 due: Date TBA
Demand and Supply
3
4-5
 Term Test 1: Time, Location, and Date TBA
Canada and the Global Economy
4&5
6
Elasticity and Government Intervention
6
7
Consumer Choice
7 (including appendix)
8
 Assigment 3 due: Date TBA
Producer Choice
8 pp184 to end
8
 Term Test 1: Time, Location, and Date TBA
Pure Competition
9
9
Monopoly
10
10
 Assigment 4 due: Date TBA
Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly
11
11
Consumer and Producer Surplus
12 pp324-328
12
Labour Market Issues
15 pp376-382, 391-396
12


Every effort will be made to cover all the material listed in the course outline. In case time runs short, chapters 12 and 15 will not be covered.

Course Materials:

The TEXTBOOK for this course is Microeconomics, Ninth Canadian Edition by McConnell, C.R., Brue, S.L., and Barbiero, T.P. (McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Limited, 2002). This book may be purchased in the campus bookstore. To go to an information page for this Text, click HERE.



Student Evaluation and Assignment Information:



* Student Evalutation:

Assignments .......... 10%
Term Test 1 .......... 20%
Term Test 2 .......... 30%
Final Exam ........... 40%

Assignment due dates, Midterm dates and Midterm locations are listed in the course outline. Click HERE to go to the course outline.


* WINTER 2003 Assignments:

All assignments must be submitted in class. Assignments will be taken up and graded during the second half of the lecture on the day which they are due. Students who are unable to make this class will receive a grade of zero on that assignment unless they make alternate arrangements with the instructor.

Assignment answers will be posted on this site shortly after their due date. No assignments will be accepted after the answers have been posted.

Choose below for the assignment or answer guide you seek:

Assignment 1 Answers to 1
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Assignment 4 Answers to 4

For further assistance, or feedback on this page, please contact Kate Rybczynski at beynonk@qed.econ.queensu.ca.
This site was last modified on January, 2003.

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