MS&E 341: Advanced Economic Analysis
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Summary
This course builds on the concepts developed in
MS&E 241 and provides a broad introduction to microeconomic theory at the doctoral
level. The main objectives of the course are: 1. to provide a solid core of
analytical and conceptual tools that students can use directly in their research; 2. to
give students an understanding of both the classic microeconomic theory and some of the
recent advances; 3. to enable students to address a microeconomic problem by structuring
it as a formal model, the analysis of which yields useful predictions and insights.
Topics to be covered include game theory, industrial organization, general equilibrium,
social choice, incentives & mechanism design.
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(Version: April 1, 2008)>
Contact Details
Phone: (650) 725-6827
[650-PALM-VCR]
E-Mail: webert@stanford.edu
E-Mail: mjrose@stanford.edu
Course Materials (requires
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Complete Lecture Notes (Version: April 1, 2008; Filesize
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This
file also contains all the problem sets and solutions for the 2004 edition of the course.
If
any lecture notes need updating, Ill post updated notes on the individual pages by
lecture. At the end of the course I will make again an updated complete file with all
compiled lecture notes available.
Current Problem Sets & Solutions
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Problem
Set 1 (Due: Tuesday, April 15) Solutions
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Problem
Set 2 (Due: Tuesday, April 29) Solutions
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Problem
Set 3 (Due: Tuesday, May 27) Solutions
Current Exams & Solutions
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Midterm
Exam (May 2 May 5 at 5 pm) Solutions
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Final Exam
(June 6 June 9 at noon) Solutions
Useful Links (Some Stanford Only)
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Engineering Library × obtain the reference books for this course from
the circulation desk
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Econlit
× major database where you can look for published
work by keyword, etc.
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Inomics × index of Economics conferences (quite
comprehensive, but still incomplete)
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JSTOR × download top journal papers in Business, Economics,
Statistics; most recent years not available
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Social Science
Citation Index × useful to forward-search references to key papers
that you identify: after searching the paper, go to its full record, click on the number
next to Times Cited, then on the following page click on Total;
the citation index sometimes also contains direct links to databases with pdf-copies of the papers
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Social Science Research Network × large repository of current working papers in the
social sciences