Temple University Department of Economics

Date and Day	Reading / Slide Show	Review Questions	Other	Homework Problem Sets
1/20/2010 Wednesday	Chapter 1: Economics: Foundations and Models	RQ 1	Graphs: Slopes and Intercepts and Down and to the Right? Top Careers
1/22 Friday	Chapter 2: Trade-offs, Comparative Advantage and the Market System Notes 1	RQ2	Production Possibility Frontiers: Movements and Shifts Importer or Exporter? Absolute and Comparative Advantage The Gains from Trade	Introductory Problems Answer Key
1/25 Monday	Continuation from 1/23
1/27 Wednesday	Continuation from 1/23			Comparative Advantage Answer Key
1/29 Friday	Continuation from 1/23			Scarcity Answer Key
2/1 Monday Last day to drop.	Chapter 3: Where Prices Come From: The Interaction of Supply and Demand	RQ 3	1. A change in the quantity demanded, 2. A change in the quantity supplied, 3. Find the Equilibrium. 4. A change in demand 5. The effect of a change in demand, on equilibrium 6. A change in supply 7. The effect of a change in supply on equilibrium
2/3 Wednesday	Continuation of 2/2
2/5 Friday	Continuation of 2/2			Two Country Trade Answer Key
2/8 Monday	Continuation of 2/2			Consumer Surplus Answer Key
2/10 Wednesday	Chapter 4: Economic Efficiency, Government Price Setting and Taxes	RQ 4 RQ Efficiency	Price Ceiling Price Floor The Incidence of Taxation Efficiency and Taxes Taxes and Elasticities Taxes: Who Pays? Measuring Consumer Surplus Measuring Producer Surplus	Equilibrium Answer Key
2/12 Friday	Continuation of 2/13			Markets, Taxes and Efficiency
2/15 Monday	Review for exam		Cafe Hayek	Price Ceilings and Efficiency Answer Key
2/17 Wednesday	First Hour Exam Spring 2009 Sample 1 Sample 2 Answer Keys: Exam One, Two, Three, and Four Fall 2005: Version A, Version B, Version C Fall 2006 Answer Keys: Version A, Version B, Version C, Version D
2/19 Friday	Go over answers to exam		Cafe Hayek
2/22 Monday	Chapter 6: The Responsiveness of Demand and Supply Elasticity Applications	RQ Elasticity	Elasticity: Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3
2/24 Wednesday	Chapter 9: Consumer Choice and Behavior		How Many Should You Buy Getting the Most for Your Money
2/26 Friday	Chapter 10: Technology, Production, and Costs		Production from one variable input Fixed, Variable and Total Costs Production, and Average and Marginal Costs	Utility Maximization Answer Key
3/1 Monday	Continuation of 2/27
3/3 Wednesday	Continuation of 2/27
3/5 Friday	Chapter 11: Firms in Perfectly Competitive Markets	RQ Perfect Competition RQ Profit	Competitive Output
3/8 - 3/12 Monday - Friday	Spring Break
3/15 Monday	Continuation of 3/6			Production with 1 Input Answer Key
3/17 Wednesday Wear green.	Continuation of 3/6
3/19 Friday	Chapter 12: Monopolistic Competition
3/22 Monday	3/21 Continued
3/24 Wednesday	Chapter 13: Oligopoly Should we act upon the alleged global warming: An application of game theory	RQ Games	Monopoly Output and Price	The Competitive Paradigm Answer Key
3/26 Friday	3/26 Continued
3/29 Monday Last day to get WP	Review for 2nd Exam			Monopolistic Competition Answer Key
3/31 Wednesday	Second Hour Exam Key to version A Key to version B Sample 1 Sample 2 Fall 2005: Version A, Version B, Version C Fall 2006: Version A, Version B, Version C, Version D
4/2 Friday	Review the results of the exam.
4/5 Monday	Chapter 14: Monopoly and Antitrust	RQ Monopoly		Price and Output under Monopoly Answer Key
4/7 Wednesday	~~Chapter 15: Pricing Strategy~~
4/9 Friday	Chapter 16: The Markets for Labor and Other Factors of Production	RQ Labor	Competitive Labor Markets Monopsony	Regulation Answer Key
4/12 Monday	Continuation of 4/11
4/14 Wednesday
4/16 Friday	Chapter 5: Externalities and Public Goods	RQ Externalities		Labor Demand in competitive markets Key
4/19 Monday	Continuation of 4/18			Input Demand Answer Key
4/21 Wednesday	Continuation of 4/18	RQ Public Goods		Imperfect Labor Markets and Efficiency Key
4/23 Friday	Continuation of 4/18
4/26 Monday	Chapter 8: Comparative Advantage and the Gains from International Trade	RQ Trade	The Gains from Trade	Externalities and Efficiency Answer Key
4/28 Wednesday				Public Goods and Efficiency Answer Key
4/30 Friday	Further Reflections on Comparative Advantage and Trade			Trade in VCR's Answer Key Trade and Efficiency Answer Key
5/3 Monday	Third Hour Exam For sample questions see the following: Sample 1 Sample 2 Sample 3, Sample 4, Sample 5, Sample 6 Since these are final exams from prior semesters not all of the questions are relevant to you.
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