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Assessment Materials in Intermediate Microeconomics

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Economics for students of mathematics
Simon Palmer, University of Southampton
Brief lecture notes and problem sets in Word format are archived here from a 2003/4 course - it also includes a past exam paper, syllabus and solutions for problem sets. All the materials are from an Economics for students of mathematics course as taught by Simon Palmer of the University of Southampton.

Microeconomics for public policy
Dr Marcos Vera-Hernandez, University College London
Microeconomics for Public Policy is a course webpage from Marcos Vera-Hernandez at UCL as taught in 2008. It contains 100+ lecture slides covering the demand and supply sides of partial equilibrium analysis, including effects of shifts in demand and supply, price elasticities of demand and supply, short- and long-run changes, efficiency and welfare analysis, impact of taxes and price controls, extension to international trade. Uses clear graphics and simple equations. Also includes a course syllabus, coursework assignments and a sample exam paper.

[Online quizzes for economics]
Kevin Hinde, Northumbria University
Part of Kevin Hinde's website of economics teaching resources, this page contains a number of short self-assessment exercises here on "Information problems and regulation", "Introduction to industrial economics", "Game theory", "Production and costs", "Monopoly (a diagrammatic approach), and "Monopoly and Oligopoly (a mathematical approach)". JavaScript is used to give detailed feedback.

Honors intermediate microeconomics
Daniel S Christiansen, Albion College
Honors intermediate microeconomics presents past exams / tests going back to 1993 as taught by Daniel S. Christiansen at Albion College. The earlier exams have solutions in separate files.

Microeconomic theory: lecture notes and exams
Susan Athey, MIT
This is a course web site from 1999, with links to sites for previous years. It includes problems sets, suggested readings and past exams papers. Topics addressed are: Axiomatic development of utility functions, Axiomatic development of expected utility, Applying expected utility theory, Introduction to Revealed Preference, Consumer Theory Handout, Consumer Theory: Summing Up, and Applied Consumer Theory. All material is in PDF.

Price theory : an intermediate text
David Friedman, Santa Clara University
This is the complete text (24 chapters) of an intermediate microeconomics textbook, with many graphics. The first edition was published in 1986, with additional chapters added in 1990. Main sections include "Competitive Equilibrium in a Simple Economy", "Complications, or Onward to Reality", "Judging Outcomes" and "Applications, Conventional and Un-". Each chapter includes questions at the end.

Intermediate economics: problem sets
Kenneth Train, University of California, Berkeley
Five detailed problem sets from a year 2000 course cover topics from consumer preference to oligopoly and factor markets via productions, costs and choices of the firm.

Intermediate microeconomics: exams
Gordon Rausser, University of California, Berkeley
These exam papers from six years of a course based on Perloff's textbook present short-answer questions, available as PDF files.

Microeconomic analysis: problem sets
Daniel L McFadden, University of California, Berkeley
Twelve short-answer problem sets and five exams archived with answer keys in separate documents by Daniel L. McFadden of University of California, Berkeley to support his Economics 100A Microeconomic Analysis as taught in 2001.

Economics and e-commerce: problem sets
Glenn Ellison, MIT, Caroline Smith, MIT
Six heavily mathematical problem sets are on this 2001 course page for Economics and E-commerce as taught by Glenn Ellison, Caroline Smith of MIT.

Intermediate microeconomics: [spreadsheet projects]
Greg Delemeester, Marietta College
The site holds tests and exams, along with four assignments in which students are asked to create spreadsheets to illustrate specific concepts. The four topics are supply and demand, consumer utility maximisation, profit maximisation for a competitive firm, and profit maximisation for a monopoly. It is part of a course webpage supporting an intermediate economics course.

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