Course title
330018001
Business Economics

 KOYAMA Yusuke
Middle-level Diploma Policy (mDP)
Program / Major mDP Goals
IoT Course DP-4a・3 専門分野と他分野を関連付ける素養
主軸となる分野の専門知識を他分野と関連付ける分野横断型の知識と行動力を修得し、社会で活用できる。
Software Course DP-4b・3 専門分野と他分野を関連付ける素養
主軸となる分野の専門知識を他分野と関連付ける分野横断型の知識と行動力を修得し、社会で活用できる。
Media Course DP-4c・3 専門分野と他分野を関連付ける素養
主軸となる分野の専門知識を他分野と関連付ける分野横断型の知識と行動力を修得し、社会で活用できる。
Data Science Course DP-4d・2 キャリアを見据えた高度な専門知識
多様なデータを収集・分析・予測する技術を駆使し、社会に存在する実際の課題に対してエビデンスを基に解決法を考え提案できる。
Mechatronics Course DP-4・3 専門分野と他分野を関連付ける素養
主軸となる分野の専門知識を他分野と関連付ける分野横断型の知識と行動力を修得し、社会で活用できる。
Architecture and Architectural Engineering Course DP-4a・3 専門分野と他分野を関連付ける素養
主軸となる分野の専門知識を他分野と関連付ける分野横断型の知識と行動力を修得し、社会で活用できる。
Environmental Systems and Urban Planning Course DP-4b・2 キャリアを見据えた高度な専門知識
国内外を問わず多様な人々と協働しながら、持続可能なまちづくりに必要な環境システム、対策、政策、ビジネス等を提案し、社会実装に寄与できる。
Bioscience Course DP-4a・3 専門分野と他分野を関連付ける素養
主軸となる分野の専門知識を他分野と関連付ける分野横断型の知識と行動力を修得し、社会で活用できる。
Biomedical Engineering Course DP-4b・3 専門分野と他分野を関連付ける素養
主軸となる分野の専門知識を他分野と関連付ける分野横断型の知識と行動力を修得し、社会で活用できる。
Sports Engineering Course DP-4c・3 専門分野と他分野を関連付ける素養
主軸となる分野の専門知識を他分野と関連付ける分野横断型の知識と行動力を修得し、社会で活用できる。
Mathematical Sciences Course DP-4・3 専門分野と他分野を関連付ける素養
主軸となる分野の専門知識を他分野と関連付ける分野横断型の知識と行動力を修得し、社会で活用できる。
Purpose of class
Microeconomics is a field of study that analyzes the behavior of individual decision makers such as a consumer, a firm, or a government to explain various economic phenomena. At the end of the course, students are expected to understand the basic concepts of microeconomics.
Course description
This course deals with the basic concepts of microeconomics.
Goals and objectives
  1. Can explain market mechanisms
  2. Be able to explain what the assumptions of perfect competition and price-taking entail, and why they are necessary
  3. Be able to explain market failures and how to address them
Relationship between 'Goals and Objectives' and 'Course Outcomes'

 basic concepts consumer theory and produc To be able to read and understand newspapers Total.
1. 40% 30% 30% 100%
2. 0%
3. 0%
Total. 40% 30% 30% -
Evaluation method and criteria
Small assignments (each week)
Final report

Submission of two-thirds of the small assignments and the final report is the minimum requirement for a pass (60 marks)
Language
Japanese
Class schedule

 Class schedule HW assignments (Including preparation and review of the class.) Amount of Time Required
1. Introduction: What is microeconomics? Home work 100minutes
2. Consumer theory (1)

1. Choice, Preference and Utility
2. Revealed preference 		Home work 200minutes
3. Consumer theory (2)

1. Budget constraint and Utility maximization
2. Demand function 		Home work 200minutes
4. Consumer theory (3)

1. Expenditure function
2. Substitute goods and Complementary goods 		Home work 200minutes
5. Producer theory (1)

1. Price takers
2. Profit maximization 		Home work 200minutes
6. Producer theory (2)

1. Profit maximization (cont.)
2. Supply function 		Home work 200minutes
7. Perfect competition and competitive equilibrium (1)

1. Perfect competition
2. Equilibrium
3. General equilibrium theory 		Home work 200minutes
8. Perfect competition and competitive equilibrium (2)

1. Partial equilibrium
2. Consumer surplus and Producer surplus 		Home work 200minutes
9. Perfect competition and competitive equilibrium (3)

1. Regulation and Dead weight loss
2. Applications 		Home work 200minutes
10. Adjustment process

1. Excess demand and Excess supply
2. Price adjustment and Quantity adjustment
3. Walrasian auction 		Home work 200minutes
11. Market Failure (1)

1. What is market failure?
2. Public goods
3. Asymmetric infromation 		Home work 200minutes
12. Market Failure (2)

1. Externality
2. Pigovian tax and Pigovian subsidy
3. Coase theorem 		Home work 200minutes
13. Market Failure (3)

1. Monopoly and Oligopoly
2. Review 		Home work 200minutes
14. Final exam and its review Home work 200minutes
Total. - - 2700minutes
Feedback on exams, assignments, etc.
ways of feedback specific contents about "Other"
Feedback in the class
Textbooks and reference materials
No textbook is required for the course.

Reference material:
Microeconomics by KANDORI, Michihiro (in Japanese)
Prerequisites
Office hours and How to contact professors for questions
  • TBA (Details will be explained at orientation.)
Regionally-oriented
Non-regionally-oriented course
Development of social and professional independence
  • Course that cultivates an ability for utilizing knowledge
Active-learning course
N/A
Course by professor with work experience
Work experience Work experience and relevance to the course content if applicable
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Education related SDGs:the Sustainable Development Goals
  • 8.DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
  • 9.INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
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