Presidency University Economics Syllabus

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Presidency University M.Sc. Applied Economics Syllabus
Semester I 250 Marks
Paper I: Theoretical Microeconomics 50 Marks
Paper II: Theoretical Macroeconomics 50 Marks
Paper III: Mathematical Economics 50 Marks
Paper IV: Econometric Methods I 50 Marks
Paper V: Computer Application I (Practical) 50 Marks

Semester II 250 Marks
Paper VI: Applied Microeconomics 50 Marks
Paper VII: Applied Macroeconomics 50 Marks
Paper VIII: Development Economics 50 Marks
Paper IX: Econometric Methods II 50 Marks
Paper X: Computer Application II (Practical) 50 Marks

THEORETICAL MICROECONOMICS
Module 1 Theory of Consumer Choice and Demand
Unit 1 Theory of Choice and Postulates about Ordering- Preference Relations
Utility Function Various Types of Preferences
Unit 2 Budget Constrained Choice - Utility Maximization Problem (UMP),
Interior and Corner Solutions, Ordinary Demand Functions, Comparative
Statics of UMP, Indirect Utility function
Unit 3 Theory of Revealed Preference
Expenditure Minimization Model - Expenditure Minimization,
Compensated Demand Functions, Expenditure Function properties:
Concavity and Shephard’s Lemma
Unit 4 Properties of Consumer Demand – Homogeneity, Price, Substitution and
Income Effects, Duality and Modern Derivation of Slutsky Equation,
Elasticity Relations
Unit 5 Special Topics in Consumer Theory and Applications - Consumer’s
surplus: Willingness to pay, Compensating and Equivalent Variation,
Intertemporal choice, Labour- Leisure Choice, Household Production
Model

Module 2 Choice under uncertainty
Unit 1 Concepts of Lotteries, Axioms of choice under uncertainty, Expected
Utility Function and its properties, Expected Utility Theorem and its proof,
Violations of Expected Utility Theorem – paradoxes
Unit 2 Preferences towards risk, Reducing risk – diversification, Insurance, value
of information
Unit 3 Applications: Demand for risky asset; The trade-off between risk and
return –CAPM
Unit 4 Individual Decision making under uncertainty
Unit 5 Concept of subjective probability

Module 3 Theory of Firm 12
Unit 1 What is a Firm? - Firm as a transformer of inputs into outputs, production
sets, production functions, Different types of Technology: Cobb-Douglas,
Fixed Proportion, Linear, CES, Multi-product production set
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Unit 2 Decision-Making By Price-Taking Firms: Input prices and marginal cost, laws of
firm demand and supply, short v. long run response to a price change, Cost
Function, Output effect, Convexity of the Production Set and Increasing Marginal
Cost, Effect of price changes on inputs and outputs, Le Chatelier Principle

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