SMK-College of Social Science

Ulonų g. 5, LT.08240
Vilnius-LITHUANIA
www.smk.lt

COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

VILNIUS BRANCH

MICROECONOMICS FALL SEMESTER 2009

CONTENTS OF THE FINAL EXAM

First part (for those who didn’t pass the MID-TERM EXAM and for those
students 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 slides

you will find in the lecturer’s blog http://mpuertas.blogspot.com .
Click the label cost the production, economies of scale, and
marginal 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 essay

about the contents of one of the papers included in the folder that I gave to
Wilson. If you don’t like any of the papers of this folders just search for other
papers in http://ideas.repec.org.

There are three groups in this course:

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 SMK-College of Social Science
Ulonų g. 5, LT.08240
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a) Lina, Ricardo and Mantas

b) ) Alexandra, Martynas , Genaidis and Lorenas Stankeviciua
c) c) Ioana, Erikas, Irina and Gozde

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

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

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

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 papers
and readings for the in-class presentation. Anyway if you don't like any of
the 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