Lectures Bachelor
Microeconomics I
| Structure: | Lecture + Tutorial |
| Rhythm: | Winter semester |
| Credits: | 6 CP |
| Course description: | 02-Wiwi:BSc-Or-5 |
| Language: | German |
| Required work: | Final exam (85%) + Assignments (up to 15%) |
| Lecturers: | Univ.-Prof. Dr. Georg Götz |
You can find the most recent information to this course here. The recordings of the lecture from the past WS 20/21 can be found on the chair's Youtube channel "Economics2Go" in the playlist Microeconomics I. A detailed overview of the relevant Youtube Links can be found here.
Course description:
- The Principles and Practice of Economics
- Economic Methods and Economic Questions
- Optimization: Doing the Best You Can
- Demand, Supply, and Equilibrium
- Consumers and Incentives (The buyer's problem, including preference order and indifference curves)
- Consumers and Incentives (Utility function, income and substitution effect, elasticities and turnover)
- Sellers and Incentives
- Perfect Competition and the Invisible Hand
- Trade
- Externalities and Public Goods
- The Government in the Economy: Taxation and Regulation
- Markets for Factors of Production
- Monopoly
- Game Theory and Strategic Play
- Oligopoly and Monopolistic Competition
- Trade-Offs Involving Time and Risk
- The Economics of Information
- Auctions and Bargaining
- Social Economics
Literature:
| "Acemoglu/ Laibson/ List : Microeconomics, 2. Auflage; Pearson 2018". |
Competition policy and -strategy
| Structure: | Lecture + Tutorial |
| Rhythm: | Summer semester |
| Credits: | 6 CP |
| Course description: | 02-VWL:BSc-V1-1 |
| Language: | German |
| Required work: |
Final exam (85%) + Assignments (up to 13%) + Participation (up to 5%) |
| Lecturers: | Dr. Daniel Herold |
| Possible Major: |
Economics, General Business and Economics, Management |
You can find the most recent information to this course here. The recordings of the lecture from the summer term 2020 can be found on the chair's Youtube channel "Economics2Go" in the playlist Competition policy.
Course description:
- Competition in static models: competition and monopoly
- Competition in static models: Oligopoly
- Dynamic and productive efficiency
- Competition Policy
- Market structure and market power
- Market definition
- Merger control
- Competition in dynamic models, horizontal and vertical competition restrictions
- Two-sided markets
- Abuse of a dominant market position
- State aid
Literature:
An accompanying text (reader) can be downloaded for the event, which follows the lecture material.
| Massimo Motta (2004). "Competition Policy. Theory and Practice." Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2004. |
| Luis Cabral (2000). "Introduction to Industrial Organization." MIT Press, 2000. |
| Pepall, Richard, and Norman (2008). "Industrial Organization: Contemporary theory and practice." South Western, 3rd edition. 2005. |