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Microeconomics 3rd edition [Pehme köide]

  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 752 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 245x190x30 mm, kaal: 1246 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 17-Jun-2004
  • Kirjastus: Financial Times Prentice Hall
  • ISBN-10: 0582404878
  • ISBN-13: 9780582404878
Teised raamatud teemal:
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 752 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 245x190x30 mm, kaal: 1246 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 17-Jun-2004
  • Kirjastus: Financial Times Prentice Hall
  • ISBN-10: 0582404878
  • ISBN-13: 9780582404878
Teised raamatud teemal:
This is a standard text for upper level undergraduate/postgraduate microeconomics.

The book begins at the intermediate level and ends at a level appropriate for the graduate student. Updated and revised, this is a new edition of one of the best-selling advanced microeconomics texts to be published in Europe. This well informed book provides a comprehensive exposition of modern microeconomic theory, covering many of the issues currently being researched and debated. The book offers very rigorous, mathematical treatment of the topics discussed making it appropriate for graduate as well as able intermediate level students. The writing style is clear and concise and the book is particularly liked for the thoroughness with which the concepts are dealt.
Preface to the third edition ix
The nature and scope of microeconomics
1(10)
Concepts and methods
1(7)
The economic and social framework
8(3)
The theory of the consumer
11(35)
The preference ordering
11(11)
The feasible set
22(3)
The consumption decision
25(4)
The comparative statics of consumer behaviour
29(7)
Offer curves and net demand curves
36(10)
Appendix 1: The lexicographic ordering
41(2)
Appendix 2: Existence of a utility function
43(3)
Consumer theory: duality
46(25)
The expenditure function
46(6)
The indirect utility function, Roy's identity and the Slutsky equation
52(6)
Measuring the benefits of price changes
58(8)
Composite commodities, separability and homotheticity
66(5)
Further models of consumer behaviour
71(21)
Revealed preference
71(6)
The consumer as a labour supplier
77(5)
Consumption and the allocation of time
82(4)
Households
86(6)
Production
92(19)
Introduction
92(4)
The production function
96(5)
Variations in scale
101(4)
Variations in input proportions
105(2)
The multi-product case
107(4)
Cost
111(32)
Introduction
111(3)
Long-run cost minimization
114(12)
Short-run cost minimization
126(9)
Cost minimization with several plants
135(3)
Multi-product cost functions
138(5)
Supply and firm objectives
143(27)
Long-run profit maximization
144(4)
Short-run profit maximization
148(3)
The multi-product firm
151(3)
The profit function and comparative statics
154(5)
The entrepreneurial firm
159(5)
Labour-managed firms
164(6)
The theory of a competitive market
170(20)
Short-run equilibrium
170(5)
Stability of equilibrium
175(9)
Long-run equilibrium
184(5)
Conclusions
189(1)
Monopoly
190(20)
Introduction
190(1)
Price and output determination under monopoly
191(3)
Price discrimination
194(11)
Monopoly welfare loss
205(5)
Input markets
210(17)
Demand for inputs
210(6)
Monopsony
216(4)
Unions as monopoly input suppliers
220(3)
Bilateral monopoly
223(4)
Capital markets
227(23)
Introduction
227(1)
Optimal consumption over time
227(4)
The optimal investment decision
231(9)
Capital market equilibrium under certainty
240(5)
Extension to many periods
245(5)
General equilibrium
250(29)
Introduction
250(1)
Walrasian equilibrium of a competitive economy
251(3)
Existence of Walrasian equilibrium
254(6)
Stability of Walrasian equilibrium
260(6)
Edgeworth exchange theory
266(3)
Exchange, equilibrium and the core
269(10)
Welfare economics
279(35)
Introduction
279(1)
Pareto efficient resource allocation
279(10)
Welfare functions and the Pareto criterion
289(4)
Pareto efficiency and competitive markets
293(6)
Distribution and markets
299(6)
Arrow's impossibility theorem
305(9)
Market failure and government failure
314(32)
The causes of market failure
314(4)
Instances of market failure
318(17)
The theory of the second best
335(5)
Government action and government failure
340(6)
Game theory
346(54)
Introduction
346(2)
Game representation and solutions
348(14)
Games of imperfect and incomplete information
362(13)
Mixed strategies
375(2)
Cooperative bargaining games
377(8)
Bargaining as a non-cooperative game
385(7)
Delay and disagreement in bargaining
392(8)
Oligopoly
400(46)
Introduction
400(1)
One-shot games
401(16)
Oligopoly as a repeated game
417(16)
Entry
433(11)
Conclusions
444(2)
Choice under uncertainty
446(45)
Introduction
446(1)
A formalization of `uncertainty'
447(2)
Choice under uncertainty
449(7)
Properties of the utility function
456(10)
Risk aversion and indifference curves
466(7)
Measures of risk
473(10)
Comparative statics under uncertainty
483(8)
Production under uncertainty
491(16)
Introduction
491(1)
Competitive firm under uncertainty
491(12)
Production with futures markets
503(4)
Insurance, risk spreading and pooling
507(46)
Introduction
507(1)
The insurance decision
507(7)
Incomplete insurance markets
514(6)
Risk spreading: the Arrow-Lind Theorem
520(5)
Risk pooling and diversification
525(5)
Asymmetric information in insurance markets: adverse selection
530(10)
Asymmetric information in insurance markets: moral hazard
540(13)
Signalling
Agency, contract theory and the firm
553(49)
Critique of the classical theory of the firm
553(2)
Agency theory and the separation of ownership
555(13)
The moral hazard principal--agent model
568(11)
The adverse selection principal--agent model
579(23)
General equilibrium under uncertainty and incomplete markets
602(111)
Introduction
602(2)
Complete markets in state contingent claims
604(10)
State-contingent commodities
614(13)
Efficiency with production
627(10)
The stock market
637(11)
Incomplete stock markets
648(9)
Mathematical Appendices
The structure of an optimization problem
657(3)
Solutions to optimization problems
660(10)
Existence of solutions
670(2)
Local and global optima
672(3)
Uniqueness of solutions
675(2)
Interior and boundary optima
677(2)
Location of the optimum: the method of Lagrange
679(7)
Concave programming and the Kuhn-Tucker conditions
686(10)
Second-order conditions and comparative statics
696(12)
The envelope theorem
708(2)
Fixed point theorems
710(2)
Bayes's rule
712(1)
References and further reading 713(6)
Bibliography 719(8)
Index 727
Preface1 The nature and scope of microeconomicsA Concepts and methodsB The economic and social framework2 The theory of the consumerA The preference orderingB The feasible setC The consumption decisionD The comparative statics of consumer behaviourE Offer curves and net demand curvesAppendix 1 : The lexicographic orderingAppendix 2 : Existence of a utility function 3 Consumer theory : dualityA The expenditure functionB The indirect utility function, Roy's identity and the Slutsky equationC Measuring the benefits of price changesD Composite commodities, separability and homotheticity 4 Further models of consumer behaviourA Revealed preferenceB The consumer as a labour supplierC Consumption and the allocation of timeD Households5 ProductionA IntroductionB The production functionB Variations in scaleC Variations in input proportionsD The multi-product case6 CostA IntroductionB Long-run cost minimizationC Short-run cost minimizationD Cost minimization with several plantsE Multi-product cost functions7 Supply and firm objectivesA Long-run profit maximizationB Short-run profit maximizationC The multi-product firmD The profit function and comparative staticsE The entrepreneurial firmF Labour managed firms8 The theory of a competitive marketA Short-run equilibriumB Stability of equilibriumC Long-run equilibrium9 MonopolyA IntroductionB Price and output determination under monopolyC Price discriminationD Monopoly welfare loss10 Input markets A Demand for inputsB MonopsonyC Unions as monopoly input suppliersD Bilateral monopoly11 Capital marketsA IntroductionB Optimal consumption over timeC The optimal investment decisionD Capital market equilibrium under certaintyE Extensions to many periods 12 General equilibrium A IntroductionB Walrasian equilibrium of a competitive economyC Existence of Walrasian equilibriumD Stability of Walrasian equilibriumE Edgeworth exchange theoryF Exchange, equilibrium and the core13 Welfare economics A IntroductionB Pareto efficient resource allocationC Welfare functions and the Pareto criterionD Pareto efficiency and competitive marketsE Distribution and marketsF Arrow's impossibility theorem14 Market failure and government failureA The causes of market failureB Instances of market failureC Theory of the second best D Government failure 15 Game theory A IntroductionB Game representation and solutions C Imperfect and incomplete informationD Mixed strategies E Cooperative bargainingF Non-cooperative bargainingG Delay and disagreement in bargaining16 Oligopoly 17 Choice under uncertaintyA IntroductionB A formalization of 'uncertainty'C Choice under uncertaintyD Properties of the utility functionE Risk aversion and indifference curvesF Measures of risk G Comparative statics under uncertainty 18 Production under uncertaintyA IntroductionB Competitive firm under uncertaintyC Production with futures markets19 Insurance, risk spreading and risk poolingA Introduction B The insurance decisionC Incomplete insurance marketsD Risk spreading: the Arrow-Lind TheoremE Risk poolingF Asymmetric information in insurance markets : adverse selectionG Asymmetric information in insurance markets : moral hazard20 Agency and contract theory 21 General equilibrium under uncertainty and incomplete marketsA Introduction B Complete markets in state contingent claimsC State contingent commoditiesD Efficiency with productionE The stock marketF Incomplete stock marketsFurther readingMathematical AppendicesA Structure of optimisation problemsB Solutions: questions and conceptsC Existence of solutionsD Local and global optimaE Uniqueness of solutionsF Interior and boundary optimaG Location of the optimum: method of LagrangeH Concave programming and the KuhnTucker conditionsI Second order conditions and comparative staticsJ The envelope theoremK Fixed point theoremsL Bayes ruleIndex