Economics 200

This page houses links to various notes written by Andrew Kato, a TA for Dr. Schwab's Econ200 class for Fall 2001.

IMPORTANT: Nothing you see on this page is officially a part of the class. These are my own personal notes and thoughts, so do not take my solutions here to be any sort of official solutions for the problem sets. Also, you should view anything you see here as supplemental to what you get in lecture - I try to stay in line with what's talked about in lecture, but I will go off on a tangent at times.

The official page for the course is: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/econ/schwab/econ200/default.htm

If you need Adobe Acrobat Reader to look at the PDF files here and on the official course page, you can go here to get the software you need.

In case you need to know how to get a hold of me:

My office is TYD3115P.
I never check voice mail messages on the phone in my office, so I won't bother giving out the number.
The official departmental address to send Econ200 related E-mail to me is kato@econ.bsos.umd.edu
My office hours are 12-4 on Friday, but I am usually there a lot on Monday. If you need to see me anytime other than that, talk to me and i'll see what I can do to be in my office.
Do not ever, ever turn in a problem set unless you hand it directly to me in person. There are too many things that can go wrong when a paper is given to someone to be given to someone else or some E-mail server goes down or whatever. To be safe, I will only accept what people give to me in person.

My own solutions will be PDF versions of my WordPerfect files. Pretty much everything else will be a regular HTML web page.

12/11/01 - Review Sheet 2 - This is the review sheet I slapped together for the final exam. I guess as the semester goes on, the lazier I get. If anyone wants solutions to PS5 or PS6, let me know and I can make them and post them. Otherwise I am going to be a slacker and not bother.
12/11/01 - Review Sheet 1 - This was the review sheet I gave out for the second midterm in case anyone wants it.
12/03/01 - How to Solve Games
11/27/01 - Hints for Problem Set 5b
11/15/01 - Hints for Problem Set 5a
11/01/01 - Hints for Problem Set 4b - Not really much to say. Very straightforward problem set.
10/28/01 - Government Policies and Deadweight Loss
10/25/01 - Hints for Problem Set 4a
10/24/01 - How I did Problem Set 3b
10/18/01 - Hints for Problem Set 3b
10/17/01 - More on Consumer and Producer Surplus
10/13/01 - How I did Problem Set 3a - I would like to apologize to the people in my Friday discussions for not being prepared to talk about problem 3. I actually confused myself and should have worked it out earlier. Let this be an example of why not to be overconfident. Even if something is supposedly easy, you can screw it up and look like a moron like I did.
10/11/01 - Hints for Problem Set 3a
10/02/01 - How I did Problem Set 2b
09/24/01 - Tax Incidence Part 2
09/21/01 - Tax Incidence Part 1
09/21/01 - How I did Problem Set 2a
09/13/01 - How I did Problem Set 1b
09/13/01 - Change in Quantity Demanded and Shift in Demand
09/07/01 - How I did Problem Set 1a (The way I did opportunity cost in here is the long way. The method in the How-to is actually easier in my opinion.)
09/07/01 - How-to Instructions for Problem Set 1a
09/07/01 - Absolute Advantage and Comparative Advantage