Intermediate Microeconomics

Education facts

Code: EC2111

The aim of this course is to show how classic price theory and game theory can be used to explain how different markets work. In price theory the focus is on the mechanisms controlling consumption and production decisions, as well as the assumptions being made regarding competition, information, preferences and externalities. Topics discussed include decisions under uncertainty, moral hazard and adverse selection, monopoly pricing, and public goods. Game theory focuses on strategic interaction and is used to analyse e.g. oligopolistic competition and contracts. Using the tools of analysis from price and game theory, this course explains how different economic structures arise and work, and how they can be shaped in a socially and economically efficient fashion. Moreover, basic concepts relating to general equilibrium theory and welfare theory are introduced.

Entry requirements

Economics I, 30 credits, or Microeconomic Theory and Applications, 15 credits and Macroeconomic Theory and Applications, 15 credits, or the equivalent.

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Intermediate Microeconomics

  Stockholm University

  Start date: 1 September 2025

  End date: 1 October 2025

  Pace of study: 100 %