The course aims to give students intermediate level treatment of the microeconomic methods to solve firm / production / market specific issues.

The course will focus on the supply side of the market. It will start focusing on the basic behavior of the firm, profit maximization and cost minimization to achieve the total cost of production. Building on these results firm behavior in different market settings the market behavior in various settings, starting with the two extreme cases: perfectly competitive markets and monopoly, and then move to intermediate cases, monopolistic competition and oligopoly will be examined. For understanding of the strategic interaction of firms in Oligopolistic market a brief introduction to game theory will be provided.