Microeconomic analysis of consumer choice and consumer demand

This is a Ph.D. level course of microeconomics in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. My role as teaching assistant included the preparation of weekly problem sets and weekly sessions. During the weekly sessions I provided examples to illustrate how key concepts they learned during lectures could be applied.

Instructor: Paul Glewwe

Recitation notes

• Recitation 1: Preference relations, choice rules, and utility functions (pdf)

• Recitation 2: Definitions and algebra overview (pdf)

• Recitation 3: (Quasi)concavity and optimization (pdf)

• Recitation 4: Taxes (pdf)

• Recitation 5: Expected utility theory and risk aversion (pdf)

Problem Sets - Answer Keys

• Problem set 1 (pdf)

• Problem set 2 (pdf)

• Problem set 3 (pdf)

• Problem set 4 (pdf)

• Problem set 5 (pdf)