Home Research Curriculum Vita Teaching
This is a repository for handouts I have written for various classes. They will be organized by class in the approximate order of topics. Many of these papers are focused on a few general topics. I will indicate this after the name of the handout.
ECON 203—Intermediate Microeconomics I
Introduction—the Great Insights of Rationality
Nasrettin Hoca and the Ants (Math)
On the Income and the Substitution Effect
The Envelope Theorem (Math)
Malthus and the Population Trap
On the Properties of the Cost Function
The Oil Crisis—Cheap and Sustainable Energy
Welfare and Pareto Efficiency (Welfare)
An Overview of General Equilibrium
On the Utility Functions we use in General Equilibrium.
General Equilibrium in an Exchange Economy
General Equilibrium in the Robinson Crusoe Economy
General Equilibrium with Constant Elasticity of Substitution Functions
ECON 204—Intermediate Microeconomics II
Decision making under Uncertainty (Uncertainty)
Bank Runs (Game Theory)
Voting (Game Theory)
On the Private Provision of Public Goods.
On some Effects of Asymmetric Information (Game Theory, Asymmetric Information)
The Market for Lemons (Game Theory, Asymmetric Information)
Cournot and Differentiated Bertrand, the simultaneous and sequential versions. (Game Theory, Oligopoly)
Free Entry in an Oligopoly (Game Theory, Oligopoly)
Introduction to Repeated Games (Game Theory)
ECON 225—Mathematics for the Economist
Overview—A tiny ball. (Math)
On the Essential operations with Matrices. (Math)
On Inverting Matrices. (Math)
ECON 439—Game Theory
Domination and Iterated Domination. (Game Theory)
A Technical analysis of the Bertrand Game, with asymmetric constant marginal costs and discrete prices (Game Theory, Oligopoly)
A comparison of Cournot and Differentiated Bertrand (Game Theory, Oligopoly)
Agenda Control in Committees—with two models of strategic behavior. (Game Theory)
Asymmetric Information and Adverse Selection (Game Theory, Asymmetric Information)
On the Equilibria of two Signaling Games (Game Theory)
On Repeated Games (Game Theory)
ECON 504---Graduate Microeconomics II
Pareto Efficiency and in the Competitive Economy (Welfare)
On the Incompatibility of Backward and Forward Induction (Game Theory)
On Imperfect Recall (Game Theory)
Non-Degenerate Contracts with Asymmetric Information (Game Theory, Asymmetric Information)
Optimal Contracts (Game Theory, Asymmetric Information)
Solving the General Principle-Agent Model (Game Theory, Asymmetric Information)
On The Impossibility of Mechanism Design (Game Theory, Social Choice)