Economics 201: Intermediate Microeconomics

Professor Ananish Chaudhuri

Fall 2001

Announcements:

October 10, 2001: I have put another sample test in the relevant section below. This might help you in studying for the test. The answers are provided. The questions should be simple enough. Send me an e-mail if you get stuck on any of the questions.

September 28, 2001: The First homework assignment is posted. Scroll down to the Section on Homework assignments. This one will be due back on Friday, October 5, 2001.

September 20, 2001: You are possibly aware that due to the fact that classes were cancelled on Tuesday, September 11, 2001, the semester was extended by a day to make up for that. However given the disruption, I would like to postpone the first exam in the course by ten days to October 12, 2001. The date announced in the syllabus is October 2, 2001. I will discuss this in class tomorrow, 09/21. Please let me know if you have any questions of comments.

September 20, 2001: There is an extremely interesting article on the economic impact of the events of last week in the Business section of the New York Times today, 09/20. It is written by Alan Kruger. Check it out if you have some free time.

September 5, 2001: I understand that the schedule says that this classs meets Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. That is not quite right - the W class is supposed to be an alt section, which I am not going to use. So we will meet only on Tuesdays and Fridays, 9:50 till 11:00. I apologize for any inconvenience. I will see you guys on Friday. I thought I said that in class, but I must not have made myself clear. Again, my apologies, for the bother. Also there were six students in class on Tuesday who wanted to add the class. Kate, Erin, Stella, Catherine, Lauren, and Kyuingmin. You can stay in - let me know if you need me to sign something.

Here is the Syllabus for the course.

I strongly encourage all of you to take a look at Paul Krugman's Column in the New York Times as often as you can. Krugman is currently on the Economics faculty of Princeton University. He received his B.A. from Yale University in 1974, and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1977. From 1977 to 1979 he taught at Yale; then moved to MIT, where he remained on the faculty from 1979 to 1994, he then moved to Stanford from 1994 until 1996. In 1982-3, on leave from MIT, he served as chief international economist of the Council of Economic Advisers.

Homework Assignments for Fall 2001:

Homework Assignment #1. This assignment will be due back on Friday, October 5, 2001.

Homework Assignment #2. This assignment will be due back on Tuesday, November 6, 2001.

Previous Exams:

• Another sample exam for you to look at to study for Friday's (October 12) exam.

• First Exam from Spring 2001 (with answers)
• First Exam from Spring 2000 (with answers)

• Second exam from Spring 2000 (with answers)

• Some more sample questions (with answers)

• Final exam from Spring 2000 (with answers)

Other exam questions from before:

Here is the answer key to the multiple choice questions. We will discuss the problems in class.

Answer Key to Midterm

NB: The graph referring to questions 20 through 26 is missing. It will be provided in class. Please consult this graph for the relevant questions.

Final Exam from Fall 1998

Answer Key for Fall 1998 Final

Here are some more sample questions (with answers) which may help you in studying.

Sample Questions (Spring 2000)

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