Models in Microeconomic Theory

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Preface
Part I Individual behavior
	1 Preferences and utility
		1.1 Preferences
		1.2 Preference formation
		1.3 An experiment
		1.4 Utility functions
		Problems
		Notes
	2 Choice
		2.1 Choice and rational choice
		2.2 Rationalizing choice
		2.3 Property alpha
		2.4 Satisficing
		2.5 The money pump argument
		2.6 Evidence of choices inconsistent with rationality
		Problems
		Notes
	3 Preferences under uncertainty
		3.1 Lotteries
		3.2 Preferences over lotteries
		3.3 Expected utility
		3.4 Theory and experiments
		3.5 Risk aversion
		Problems
		Notes
	4 Consumer preferences
		4.1 Bundles of goods
		4.2 Preferences over bundles
		4.3 Monotonicity
		4.4 Continuity
		4.5 Convexity
		4.6 Differentiability
		Problems
		Notes
	5 Consumer behavior
		5.1 Budget sets
		5.2 Demand functions
		5.3 Rational consumer
		5.4 Differentiable preferences
		5.5 Rationalizing a demand function
		5.6 Properties of demand functions
		Problems
		Notes
	6 Producer behavior
		6.1 The producer
		6.2 Output maximization
		6.3 Profit maximization
		6.4 Cost function
		6.5 Producers\' preferences
		Problems
		Notes
	7 Monopoly
		7.1 Basic model
		7.2 Uniform-price monopolistic market
		7.3 Discriminatory monopoly
		7.4 Implicit discrimination
		Problems
		Notes
Part II Equilibrium
	8 A jungle
		8.1 Model
		8.2 Equilibrium
		8.3 Pareto stability
		8.4 Equilibrium and Pareto stability in a jungle
		8.5 Which allocations can be obtained by a social planner who controls the power relation?
		8.6 Externalities
		Problems
		Notes
	9 A market
		9.1 Model
		9.2 Existence and construction of a market equilibrium
		9.3 Equilibrium and Pareto stability
		9.4 Uniqueness of market equilibrium
		Problems
		Notes
	10 An exchange economy
		10.1 Model
		10.2 Competitive equilibrium
		10.3 Existence of a competitive equilibrium
		10.4 Reopening trade
		10.5 Equilibrium and Pareto stability
		10.6 The core
		10.7 Competitive equilibrium based on demand functions
		10.8 Manipulability
		10.9 Edgeworth box
		Problems
		Notes
	11 Variants of an exchange economy
		11.1 Market with indivisible good and money
		11.2 Exchange economy with uncertainty
		Problems
		Notes
	12 A market with consumers and producers
		12.1 Production economy
		12.2 An economy with capital and labor
		Problems
	13 Equilibrium with prices and expectations
		13.1 Distributing customers among bank branches
		13.2 Asymmetric information and adverse selection
		13.3 A fishing economy
		Problems
		Notes
	14 A market with asymmetric information
		14.1 Introductory model
		14.2 Labor market with education
		Problems
		Notes
Part III Game theory
	15 Strategic games
		15.1 Strategic games and Nash equilibrium
		15.2 Basic examples
		15.3 Economic examples
		15.4 Existence of Nash equilibrium
		15.5 Strictly competitive games
		15.6 Kantian equilibrium
		15.7 Mixed strategies
		15.8 Interpreting Nash equilibrium
		Problems
		Notes
	16 Extensive games
		16.1 Extensive games and subgame perfect equilibrium
		16.2 What is a strategy?
		16.3 Backward induction
		16.4 Bargaining
		Problems
		Notes
Part IV Topics
	17 Mechanism design
		17.1 Deciding on a public project
		17.2 Strategy-proof mechanisms
		17.3 The Vickrey-Clarke-Groves mechanism
		Problems
		Notes
	18 Matching
		18.1 The matching problem
		18.2 The Gale-Shapley algorithm
		18.3 The Gale-Shapley algorithm and stability
		Problems
		Notes
	19 Socialism
		19.1 Model
		19.2 Properties of economic systems
		19.3 Characterization of socialism
		Problems
		Notes
	20 Aggregating preferences
		20.1 Social preferences
		20.2 Preference aggregation functions
		20.3 Properties of preference aggregation functions
		20.4 Arrow\'s impossibility theorem
		20.5 Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem
		Problems
		Notes
	Index