Economics & Society

Announcements

I have posted everything you need to know for the exam in one pdf (scroll below to 'resources').
The weekly schedule for the Q&As and Livestream is available below.
The key for homework 11 is also available.

Apr 14 2025
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Jan 13 2025

Weekly zoom & f2f schedule

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

Sun

12/1

13/1

14/1

15/1

16/1

17/1

18/1

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Q&A
at 21:30

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Q&A
at 21:30

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Livestream
at 20:30
Q&A to follow

Course Info

Instructor: Kosmas Marinakis, Ph.D.

email: kmarinakis@smu.edu.sg

Office: YPHSL 4-13 Phone: +65 68 261 339

f2f Office Hours: See weekly schedule above

Basic Text: Economics by Acemogly, Laibson and List

Telegram: TBA

Class Schedule

Section

Day

Time

Venue

Teaching Support

G13

Wed

12:00

SOSS/CIS CR 3-2

Megan GOH

G14

Wed

15:30

SOSS/CIS CR 3-2

Ethan CHAN

G15

Thu

12:00

SOSS/CIS CR 3-2

Ray CHONG

G16

Thu

15:30

SOSS/CIS CR 3-2

Heidi LIM She Anne

Resources

Syllabus

Lecture playlist

Test & Exam Archive

Test Info

Test Key

Group Project

Exam Info

Exam Key

Course Calendar

Updated in a weekly basis according to course evolution.

Week of

Lec

Topic

Videos

Text Ch.

PS

HW

Jan 12

1

Course Intro| Basics & Prerequisites

1,2,3

HW1

Jan 19

2

Consumer Choice & Demand

5

HW2

Jan 26

3

Cost, Supply & Competitive Markets

6, 7

HW3

Feb 2

4

Monopoly & Market Efficiency

4.4, 4.6

6, 7, 12

HW4

Feb 9

5

Strategic Competition

5.1*, 5.5

14

HW5

Feb 16

6

Market Failure & Intervention

9, 10

HW6

Feb 23

Test prep week – No lecture

Feb 27

Midterm (online from home at 16:00)

Units 1-6

Mar 2

Recess week – No classes

Mar 9

7

Macro Aggregates & Inequality

19, 20

HW7

Mar 16

8

Economic Growth

8.3, 8.4

21, 22

HW8

Mar 23

9

Banking & The Monetary System

24, 25

HW9

Mar 30

10

Short-run GDP fluctuations

23, 26, 27

HW10

Apr 6

11

Labor Market & Trade

11.1, 10.7, 11.2

8, 27, 28

HW11

Apr 13

Exam prep week – No lecture

TBA

Final Exam (online on campus at 08:30)

Units 1 – 11

Lecture; Tutorial; External video; Key; New update;

Video segments denoted by (*) must be watched before the lecture