回 | 項目 | 内容 |
第1回 | Guidance | Course plan and evaluation method are introduced. |
第2回 | Demand and Supply | This lecture introduces overviews of demand, supply, and market equilibrium.
Prep: Read sections of demand & supply (需要と供給). |
第3回 | Consumer Theory 1 | This lecture introduces utility function and budget set.
Prep: Read sections of consumer theory (消費者理論). |
第4回 | Consumer Theory 2 | This lecture introduces utility maximization and expecditure minimization problems to obtain demand functions.
Prep: Read sections of consumer theory (消費者理論). |
第5回 | Consumer Theory 3 | This lecture introduces a classification of goods and impacts of changes in prices.
Prep: Read sections of consumer theory (消費者理論). |
第6回 | Producer Theory 1 | This lecture introduces revenue and cost functions to derive profit function.
Prep: Read sections of producer theory (生産者理論). |
第7回 | Producer Theory 2 | This lecture introduces average cost and marginal cost functions in short-run and long-run, and fixed and variable costs.
Prep: Read sections of producer theory (生産者理論). |
第8回 | Producer Theory 3 | This lecture introduces how to maximize profit.
Prep: Read sections of producer theory (生産者理論). |
第9回 | Producer Theory 4 | This lecture introduces how to obtain cost function from cost minimization problem.
Prep: Read sections of producer theory (生産者理論). |
第10回 | Market Equilibrium and Social Welfare | This lecture considers market equilibrium with demand and supply functions obtained from consumer theory and producer theory. We also consider the stability of the equilibrium.
Prep: Read sections of market equilibrium and social welfare (市場均衡・社会厚生). |
第11回 | Monopoly | This lecture introduces a monopoly model.
Prep: Read sections of monopoly (独占). |
第12回 | Oligopoly 1 | This lecture introduces a quantity competition model with more than two firms (Cournot model). We also review what is Nash equilibrium.
Prep: Read sections of oligopoly (寡占). |
第13回 | Oligopoly 2 | This lecture introduces some oligopoly models, such as Bertrand and Stackelberg models.
Prep: Read sections of oligopoly (寡占). |
第14回 | Review | Review of all contents.
Prep: Prepare for the exam. |
第15回 | Summary and Conclusion | Summary and conclusion |