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These materials are aimed at building specific skills that are used in economic analysis. They are under development and new modules will be added over time. If this is your first visit, a good place to start is topic TD-101 under "Tools": it provides instructions. Also, please note that for these are exercises: they assume you're familiar with certain key concepts covered in a textbook or class.
TD | Documentation |
TD-101 | ▸ Instructions |
MD | Demand |
MD-101 | ▸ Deriving demand from willingness to pay |
MD-151 | ▸ Deriving a market demand curve with heterogeneous buyers |
MD-201 | ▸ Computing a demand elasticity from an equation |
MD-255 | ▸ Computing a change in consumer surplus |
MS | Supply |
MS-101 | ▸ Deriving supply from willingness to accept |
MS-151 | ▸ Deriving a market supply curve with heterogeneous sellers |
MS-255 | ▸ Computing a change in producer surplus |
ME | Equilibrium |
ME-101 | ▸ Finding a market equilibrium |
ME-221 | ▸ Computing social surplus at a market equilibrium |
MT | Taxes |
MT-101 | ▸ Computing an equilibrium quantity with a tax |
MY | Subsidies |
MY-101 | ▸ Computing an equilibrium quantity with a subsidy |
MX | Cross Subsidies |
MX-101 | ▸ Computing the outcome from removing a cross subsidy |
MX-201 | ▸ Removing a cross subsidy that is creating a deficit |
MC | Price Controls |
MC-102 | ▸ Minimum wage using algebraic equations |
MC-201 | ▸ Rent control using elasticities |
CD | Demand |
CD-101 | ▸ Deriving demand curves for perfect complements preferences |
CW | Welfare |
CW-150 | Deriving expenditure functions |
CW-151 | ▸ Deriving a Cobb-Douglas expenditure function |
CW-152 | ▸ Deriving a Stone-Geary expenditure function |
CW-200 | Computing compensating variations |
CW-201 | ▸ Compensating variation for a tax |
CW-202 | ▸ Compensating variation for a multipart policy |
CW-250 | Income and substitution effects |
CW-251 | ▸ Income and substitution effects for Cobb-Douglas preferences |
CW-252 | ▸ Income and substitution effects for Stone-Geary preferences |
CI | Intertemporal Choice |
CI-100 | Saving and borrowing over two periods |
CI-101 | ▸ Saving by an individual with perfect complements preferences |
CI-102 | ▸ Borrowing by an individual with Cobb-Douglas preferences |
CI-150 | Human capital |
CI-151 | ▸ Choosing a training program |
CN | Choice under Uncertainty |
CN-201 | ▸ A single choice between certain and uncertain outcomes |
CN-205 | ▸ Choosing whether to buy information |
CN-211 | ▸ Calculating the value of information |
AP | Present Value |
AP-100 | Basic present value formulas |
AP-101 | ▸ A single payment |
AP-105 | ▸ Several individual payments |
AP-111 | ▸ A stream of five payments |
AP-121 | ▸ An infinite stream of payments |
AP-131 | ▸ An infinite stream starting in year 0 |
AP-200 | Compound formulas for more complex cash flows |
AP-211 | ▸ A delayed infinite stream |
AP-221 | ▸ A finite stream |
AP-231 | ▸ A delayed finite stream |
AP-300 | Net present value applications |
AP-321 | ▸ Establishing a park |
AP-331 | ▸ A road project accounting for DWL in tax revenue |
AP-341 | ▸ Comparing conventional and hybrid vehicles |
AU | Incorporating Uncertainty |
AU-100 | Evaluating uncertain policies |
AU-101 | ▸ Policy risk and investment incentives |
AU-200 | Value of information |
AU-201 | ▸ Highway planning with uncertain population growth |
AU-500 | Imperfect information |
AU-501 | ▸ Imperfect information and health policy |
AU-505 | ▸ Screening for rare diseases with imperfect medical testing. |