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Microeconomics unit (BEA470)

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Introduction

Microeconomics is essential for advancing understanding of human behaviours and evaluating the impact of public policy and business practices. The unit builds upon the materials covered in undergraduate economic units. The goal of the unit is to apply the basic principles of microeconomics to analyse a range of real-world problems and policy issues that involve the behaviour of consumers and firms and market interaction. The unit covers both theoretical and empirical approaches in microeconomics.

Summary

Unit name Microeconomics
Unit code BEA470
Credit points 12.5
College/School Tasmanian School of Business and Economics
Discipline Economics
Coordinator Associate Professor Satoshi Yamazaki
Delivered By University of Tasmania
Level Honours

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Availability

Specific information on 2027 unit availability will be available in August

Learning Outcomes

  • Analyse and contrast the economic behaviour of individual consumers and firms in different institutional environments.
  • Analyse and critically evaluate policies that affect the behaviour of individuals and market outcomes.
  • Communicate and present economic reasoning, knowledge and ideas.

Fee Information

2027 fee information will be available in August.

Requisites

Prerequisites

BEA200

Teaching

Teaching Pattern

4 hour workshop x 3; plus online content. Please refer to the timetable for dates, time and venue.

AssessmentTest 1 (30%)|Test 2 (30%)|Assignment (40%)
TimetableView the lecture timetable | View the full unit timetable

Textbooks

Required

There is no prescribed text for this unit.
Recommended

Students find it useful to consult alternative references as part of their study program. Some useful references are:

  • Nicholson and Snyder, Microeconomic Theory: Basic Principles and Extensions (12th Edition), Cengage Learning, 2016. ISBN 9781305505797.
  • Perloff, Microeconomics (8th edition), Pearson, 2018. ISBN 9781292215624.
  • Angrist and Pischke, Mostly Harmless Econometrics, Princeton University Press, 2009. ISBE 9780691120355.
  • Cameron and Trivedi, Microeconometrics: Methods and Applications, Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 9780521848053.

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