Information Package / Course Catalogue
Microeconomics I
Course Code: İKT201
Course Type: Required
Couse Group: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 5
Objectives of the Course

To gain a basic information to students about nature, scope and methods of microeconomics; a general view of the price system; theories of supply and demand; consumer behavior and preferences; utility maksimization; production process; production costs, and market structures, income distribution

Course Content

Economic concepts, scarcity and choice, consumer demand, the company supply and market equilibrium, elasticity, household behavior, consumer equilibrium, production and costs, producers balance, commodity markets, input markets, the overall balance of income distribution.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Assoc. Prof. Kıymet YAVUZASLAN
Learning Outcomes
1.To be able to learn basic microeconomics concepts
2.Able to analyse consumer and producer behavior
3.Able to analyse the structure of markets
4.To be able to learning about the income distribution and poverty
5.To learn small decision units in economy
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Karl E.Case, Ray C.Fair ve Sharon M.Oster , Principles of Economics, Nineth Edition, 2010
2. Erdal M. Ünsal, Mikroiktisada Giriş, 6. Baskı, 2005
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Microeconomics Concepts (economics, wants, needs, goods and services, scarcity, choice and opportunity costs, production possibility frontier, demand, supply, economic systems, and so on)
Week 2 - Theoretical
Demand, supply and shifts in demand and supply; determinants of demand and supply
Week 3 - Theoretical
Market equilibrium and changes in equilibrium and government inventions (price floor and price ceiling)
Week 4 - Theoretical
Elasticities of demand and supply; determinants of elasticities
Week 5 - Theoretical
Preferences and choices; measuring utility
Week 6 - Theoretical
Budget Constraint and utility maksimization (consumer equilibrium); changes in equilibrium
Week 7 - Theoretical
The Production process in the short-run and in the long-run. The behavior of profit maximizing firms in both periods
Week 8 - Theoretical
The Production process in the short-run and in the long-run. The behavior of profit maximizing firms in both periods
Week 9 - Theoretical
Short-run and long-run costs and output decisions; scale economies
Week 10 - Theoretical
Output markets: perfectly competitive market
Week 11 - Theoretical
Monopoly market, Monopolistic competition
Week 12 - Theoretical
Oligopoly and game theory
Week 13 - Theoretical
Introduction to Input Markets
Week 14 - Theoretical
General equilibrium and efficiency
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory142370
Individual Work121236
Midterm Examination1819
Final Examination19110
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)125
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
PÇ-1
PÇ-2
PÇ-3
PÇ-4
PÇ-5
PÇ-6
PÇ-7
PÇ-8
PÇ-9
OÇ-1
3
3
3
4
4
3
3
4
3
OÇ-2
4
3
3
3
3
3
3
4
3
OÇ-3
3
3
3
3
4
4
4
4
4
OÇ-4
3
3
3
3
4
4
4
4
4
OÇ-5
3
3
3
4
4
4
3
3
4
Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026