Mathematics for Economists

2021/2022

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

10

Кредиты

Кто читает:

Международный институт экономики и финансов

Статус:

Курс обязательный

Когда читается:

2-й курс, 2-4 модуль

Преподаватели

Букин Кирилл Александрович

Демешев Борис Борисович

Есаулов Даниил Михайлович

Жуков Павел Владимирович

Лапшин Виктор Александрович

Лукьянченко Петр Павлович

Попова Валерия Сергеевна

Руденко Виктория Алексеевна

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Mathematics for Economists is a two-semester course for the second year students studying at ICEF. It is designed for all specializations at ICEF but for the “Mathematics and Economics” specialization the students of which follow a different course ‘”Mathematical Methods for Economists”. This course is an important part of the bachelor stage in education of the future economists. It has to give students skills for implementation of the mathematical knowledge and expertise to the problems of economics. Its prerequisite is the knowledge of the single variable calculus.

Learning Objectives

• Students are supposed: to acquire knowledge in the field of higher mathematics and become ready to analyze simulated as well as real economic situations;
• to develop ability to apply the knowledge of the differential and difference equations which will enable them to analyze dynamics of the processes.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Apply IFT to microeconomic and macroeconomic problems
• Apply the notion of level curve to microeconomics
• Be able to find a limit of a function at a point
• Be able to handle derivatives
• Classify the sets in n-dimensional space
• Explain and apply gradient and related directional derivative
• Find derivatives of implicit functions

Course Contents

• Multi-dimensional calculus
• Optimization
• Differential and difference equations
• Methods of optimization

Assessment Elements

• UoL exam
• home assignments
• December exam
• spring mock

Interim Assessment

• 2021/2022 2nd module
  0.3 * home assignments + 0.7 * December exam
• 2021/2022 4th module
  0.1 * home assignments + 0.5 * UoL exam + 0.2 * spring mock + 0.2 * 2021/2022 2nd module

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Mathematics for economists, Simon, C. P., 1994

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Сборник задач и упражнений по математическому анализу : учеб. пособие для вузов, Демидович, Б. П., 2003