MA In Goa University

Hi buddy as I want to do MA in economics from Goa University ,s o would you plz provide me its syllabus here so that I could do compare it with other university ???

[pawan]

As you want here I am providing Goa University MA Economics program syllabus:

ECC 101 MICROECONOMICS -I
COMPULSORY COURSE
Total Contact Hours: 60
Credits : 4
1.Theory of Consumer Behaviour
(Contact Hours: 12)
Consumers tastes: Indifference Curves-Consumers choice and equilibrium-Income and
substitution effects- Derivation of demand curve Applications of Indifference curves -
Revealed preference theorem- market demand models-constant elasticity and distributed lag
models-consumers choice under uncertainty..
2.Theory of Production and Costs
(Contact Hours: 10)
Technology of production-production-Production function-short run and long run-isoquants-
Elasticity of substitution- Homogenous and Homothetic -Cobb Douglas Production function -
CES,VES production functions-Recent developments-Technical progress and production
function-
3. Returns to Scale and Costs
(Contact Hours 08)
Returns to scale - Choice of least cost combination of inputs.
Costs- Short and long run-The L shaped cost curve-Engineering cost curve-Derivation of cost
function -Duality of cost and production function.
4. The Theory of Competitive Market
(Contact Hours: 10)
Perfect competition - short run and long run equilibrium of the firm and industry. Dynamic
changes and industry equilibrium: demand changes, cost changes and government taxation.
Efficiency in a competitive market- Analysis of competitive markets.
5.Theory of Imperfect Market: Monopoly
(Contact Hours: 12)
Monopoly-price and output determination in monopoly-short and long run-price
discrimination-degrees of price discrimination-Bilateral monopoly-monopoly and welfare
loss-Control of monopoly-
6.Monopolistic Competition
(Contact Hours 08)
Monopolistic Competition - product differentiation- Chamberlins model-price competition
and free entry-monopolistic competition and excess capacity

Goa University MA Economics program syllabus :