Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Proposal for a New Course

Course Number & Title: BM501H – Microeconomics
L-T-P-C: 4-0-0-4
Course Content / Syllabus:

The fundamentals of managerial economics, laws of demand and supply, elasticity, market equilibrium, consumer and producer surplus, price controls, taxes; Understanding consumers: laws of diminishing marginal and equi-marginal utility, indifference curves and budget constraint, optimizing conditions, substitution and income effects; Cost, pricing, and production: Pricing, scale, and scope, strategy and game theory, normal and extensive form games, NE and SPE; Pricing and market power: perfect competition, monopoly, oligopoly, monopolistic competition, price discrimination, market power risk and uncertainty, incentives and information, regulations and public policy.

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