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22nd July 2018, 05:42 PM
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Re: MA Economics Syllabus Mumbai University

Can you provide me the Syllabus/Course Structure for M.A. (Master of Arts) Business Economics Program offered by University of Mumbai?
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22nd July 2018, 05:44 PM
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Re: MA Economics Syllabus Mumbai University

The Syllabus/Course Structure for M.A. (Master of Arts) Business Economics Program offered by University of Mumbai is as follows:

Syllabus for M.A. Business Economics (By Papers)
PART I
Compulsory Paper (Semester-I)



MABEC1 MICRO ECONOMIC ANALYSIS - I
Module 1: Introduction and Basic Concepts. (12)
Basic Economic Problem- Choice and Scarcity- Consumer preferences, opportunity sets, optimum choices, indirect utility demand functions, income and substitution effects, Slutsky equation, normal versus inferior goods, types of demand functions, elasticity, welfare evaluation, consumer surplus, equivalent variation and compensating variation, revealed preference Concept of Equilibrium: General Equilibrium v/s Partial Equilibrium -Walrasian theory of General Equilibrium

Module 2: Production and Cost (12)
Production functions, types of production functions- Marginal products, rate of technical substitution, technical progress, cost functions, average and marginal costs, short run versus long run costs, Economies of scale and scope, Profit maximization, Cost minimization, derivation of input demand- Short Run and Long Run Cost Curve.

Module 3: Competition and Markets (12)
Assumptions of perfect market, competitive markets demand and supply, demand and supply curves of individual firms, short-run versus long-run, competitive market equilibrium, tax incidence analysis, price-controls and shortages- Market failure, imperfect markets monopolistic competition and oligopoly, sources of monopoly power, monopoly market equilibrium, price discrimination first, second and third degree, tax incidence

Module 4: Micro economic theories (12)
Pigous theory of Welfare Economics Conditions of Pareto Optimality Bergson and Samuelsons Social Welfare Function Arrows Impossibility Theorem

REFERENCES:
1) Ahuja H. L., Advanced Economic Theory : Microeconomics Analysis, 13th Edition, S.
Chand and Co. Ltd., New Delhi.
2) Baumol, W.J. (1982): Economic Theory and Operations Analysis, Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi.
3) Dewett K. K., Modern Economic Theory, S. Chand & Company Ltd., Revised Edition, 2005.
4) Koutsoyiannis, A. (1979): Modern Microeconomics, 2nd ed., Macmillan Press, London.
5) Kreps, David M (1990): A Course in Microeconomic Theory, Princeton University Press, Princeton.
6) Sen, A. (1999): Microeconomics: Theory and Applications, Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
7) Stigler, G. (1996): Theory of Price, 4th ed., Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi.
8) Varian, H. (2000): Microeconomic Analysis, W.W. Norton, New York.


Syllabus M.A. Business Economics University of Mumbai




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