MICROECONOMICS 2

  John D. Hey

Welcome

Welcome to this new course of Microeconomics 2 at the University of York. The lecturer is me, John Hey. The tutors are Daniel Howdon, James Lomas, Konstantinos Georgalos, Matthew Beecham and Xueqi Dong. Three student representatives are Indre Kontrimaite (e-mail), Rex Harrison (e-mail), and Hector Sanchez (e-mail). Any other volunteers would be welcome: student representatives are useful channel of communication between you and me.

Introduction and timetables

You can find an Introduction to the course, the lecture timetable , and the office hours of the lecturers and Teaching Fellows, as well as notes on the prior use of the Discussion Board on VLE.

The course text, the lectures, the PowerPoints, the Maple files and the tutorials

• The course text, Microeconomics: People are Different by John D Hey is custom published by Pearson Custom Publishing (ISBN 9781780160139) and is available in Blackwell University Bookshop on campus. Please note some errata and clarifications.

• A few copies of the out-of-print McGraw-Hill edition (ISBN 0077103645) can be found in the University Library. Pearson are also offering a special combined deal (ISBN 9781780868912) on this micro text and the Blanchard text for Macro 2. You can also find the Chapters of the book on this site. If you speak Italian, you can buy the Italian version of the text: Microeconomia: People are Different by John D Hey and Carmelo Petraglia, (ISBN 8854809994, 688 pages, 32.00 euro), which is published by Aracne Editrice.
  

• The Lectures of the course are available online.

• The PowerPoint presentations that I use in my lectures (they are being constantly updated) can be found here.

• If you like, you can find the Maple files .

• The Tutorials of the course are available online.

The Exams

As from 2011-2012 the examination system will be different from that used in previous years. As I want everyone to be clear about what the new system entails, I have prepared a detailed description of it. The answers will be scanned and then marked by computer; students will be given a Micro 2 Answer Sheet in which to record their examination number and answers.

I have prepared two Specimen Examination Papers. You can find a presentation of the answers to the First Specimen Examination Paper here, but do not look at the answers until you have tried the paper yourself. (You may find it helpful for the material on price-offer curves to see some examples of perfect complements and perfect substitutes price offer curves (the 'E' is the endowment point). from a young lady who prefers to remain anonymous.)

I went through the Second Specimen Examination Paper in two special sessions from 3.15 to 4.15 on Monday the 30th of April and Monday the 7th of May 2012 in L/N/28. You can see my answers here.

If you want me to mark your attempts to this second specimen examination paper, you could print out the answer sheet, fill it in and return it to me (probably best physically).

The examination itself is in the morning of Saturday the 9th of June 2012.

If you want, you can send me a message.