390033 SE PhD-VGSE: Research seminar in Microeconomics (2017W)
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
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The level of this course requires knowledge of advanced macroeconomics, advanced microeconomics, and advanced econometrics.
Students may apply for this course by sending an email to info@vgse.at including their CV, transcript (Sammelzeugnis) and optionally a recommendation of their thesis advisor.
More information at www.vgse.at
Students may apply for this course by sending an email to info@vgse.at including their CV, transcript (Sammelzeugnis) and optionally a recommendation of their thesis advisor.
More information at www.vgse.at
An/Abmeldung
Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").
- Anmeldung von Fr 08.09.2017 09:00 bis Do 21.09.2017 12:00
- Abmeldung bis Sa 14.10.2017 23:59
Details
max. 24 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch
Lehrende
Termine
First meeting: Wednesday, October 4, 13.15 - 14.45 h, Hörsaal 16, 2nd floor
For the rest of the semester the lecture will be Wednesday, 13.15 - 14.45 h Seminarroom 3rd floor, Doctoral Colleg
No meeting on October 11 and October 18!
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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung
Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel
The grade of the course is determined based on three equally weighted parts: homeworks, midterm and final exam.
Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab
Prüfungsstoff
Literatur
The main bibliography for the course is A. Mas-Colell, M.D. Whinston & J.R. Green, Microeconomic Theory, Oxford University Press, New York, 1995, complimented by some research papers and handouts.
Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis
Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:46
Goal: Teach PhD students how to use formal and rigorous methods to understand and solve microeconomic research questions. Show students the different phases in writing a research paper in microeconomics that builds on formal methods.
Outline: Microeconomics comes with a formal apparatus that is used to derive results. This formal apparatus involves both mathematics (like when looking at derivatives and constrained optimization) and separate tools such as game theory. Statements are made based on assumptions and proofs using these assumptions. In this course we wish to show to PhD students how to apply such methods, how to be able to derive statements about microeconomics from primitives. The lecture is presented as a series as of topics. Each week homeworks are assigned and corrected.
Topics include:
- choice and preferences
- von Neumann Morgenstern and alternative models of choice under uncertainty
- marginal rates of substitution and ordients
- aggregation of preferences and the representative consumer
- power and failure of first and second welfare theorems
- type spaces and information economics
- auctions and mechanism design
In addition, a research topic will be assigned at the beginning and students are asked to jointly write a paper on this topic, progress discussed whenever necessary in class (such as relevant literature, research motivation, model, proofs, outline of paper, final editing).