Welcome to the web page for
Microeconomic Theory
ECN / ARE   200C  SPRING 2025

Classes:  Tuesday and Thursday, 12:10 - 1:30 pm  OLSON 147

Discussion section:  Friday, 10:00-10:50 am  Hoagland 113

Instructor: Professor Giacomo Bonanno
 

Office	e-mail	Office Hours
1108 SSH	gfbonanno@ucdavis.edu	Wednesday  10:30-12:00 and 1:00-2:30

Teaching Assistant: Tina Zhang 
 

Office	e-mail	Office Hours
SSH 137 (Courtyard level: one floor down from the Economics Department)	tdzhang@ucdavis.edu	Friday, 11am-12pm and 2-3pm On May 7 and June 11, Wednesday 3-5 pm

•  Please note: You are expected to be familiar with the UC Davis Code of Academic Conduct (http://sja.ucdavis.edu/files/cac.pdf).
  Any suspected violation will be reported to the office of Student Judicial Affairs. If you are found by Judicial Affairs to have cheated on an exam, you will receive an "F" in my entire course.  If you are found to have cheated on assignments worth at least 2% of your course grade, you will receive one whole letter grade less than your final course score would have indicated.

• Syllabus:   200CSyl_S25.pdf

• Textbook 1: Game Theory (Open Access, free download):  http://faculty.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/bonanno/GT_Book.html

• Textbook 2: Uncertainty, Risk and Information (Open Access, free download):  http://faculty.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/bonanno/URI_Book.html  

• Exams:    the Midterm is on Thursday, May 8

               the Final  is on Thursday, June 12, 1:00 - 3:00 pm

• Practice Problems with answers (for topics not covered in the two textbooks):  practice.html

• Lecture notes (on topics not covered in the two textbooks):  Lecture_notes.htm

• Past exams with answers:   2015.pdf,  2016.pdf,  2017.pdf,  2018.pdf,  2019.pdf,  2020.pdf,  2021.pdf,  2022.pdf,  2023.pdf,  2024.pdf

• Link to past prelims: https://economics.ucdavis.edu/preliminary-exams-macro-and-micro-economicss  
  
• Homework:

	Due date
Homework 1:  Homwk_1.pdf	Friday, April 11
Homework 2:  Homwk_2.pdf	Friday, April 18
Homework 3:  Homwk_3.pdf	Friday, April 25
Homework 4:  Homwk_4.pdf	Friday, May 2
skip May 8  (Midterm)
Homework 5:  Homwk_5.pdf	Friday, May 16
Homework 6:  Homwk_6.pdf	Friday, May 23
Homework 7:  Homwk_7.pdf	Friday, May 30

• Answers to homework:

• After each exam you will be able to download the test and answers:

SLIDES ("before class" for the template that will be used in class, "after class" for the slide filled in during class)

	Tuesday	Thursday
Week 1	before class after class	before class after class
Week 2	before class after class	before class after class
Week 3	before class after class	before class after class
Week 4	before class after class	before class after class
Week 5	before class after class	before class after class
Week 6	before class after class	Midterm Exam
Week 7	before class after class	before class after class
Week 8	before class after class	before class after class
Week 9	before class after class	before class after class
Week 10	before class after class	before class after class

  

 

200C_GRADES

Note: your name has been replaced with an identifier calculated as follows:
the sum of the two middle digits in your ID followed by the sum of the last four digits of your ID
followed by the last digit of your ID followed possibly by one or two of the following: the last letter of your last name, the first letter of your first name, the sixth digit of your ID

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