Javier Tasso

Teaching

Introductory Microeconomics

Here's the syllabus. I taught this class in the fall of 2025. Below are the slides and problem sets.

• Slides:
  • 1. Opportunity Cost and Trade
  • 2. Consumer Theory
  • 3. Producer Theory
  • 4. Partial Equilibrium
  • 5. Taxes and Price Ceilings
  • 6. Monopoly
  • 7. Introduction to Game Theory
  • 8. Oligopoly
  • 9. Externalities & Public Goods
• Homework: HW1, HW2, HW3, HW4, HW5, HW6, HW7, HW8, HW9.

Intermediate Microeconomics

Here's the syllabus and course evaluations. I taught this class in the summer of 2024. My goal was to introduce students to general equilibrium theory and study how the price system works in a competitive economy. Below are the slides and problem sets.

• Slides:
  • 1. Consumer Theory
  • 2. General Equilibrium: Exchange
  • 3. Producer Theory
  • 4. General Equilibrium: Production
  • 5. Risk and Uncertainty
  • 6. Intertemporal Choice
• Problem Sets:
  • Cheatsheet for Consumer Theory
  • Problem Set 1 and Problem Set 2
  • HW1, HW2, HW3, HW4, HW5, HW6, HW7, HW8, HW9

Statistics

I taught many iterations of this class at the University of Buenos Aires. The first half consists of descriptive statistics, basic probabiliy and random variables. The second half is about statistical inference: sampling distributions, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing, introduction to Bayesian inference, and introduction to linear regression. I try to spend a sensible amount of time on Bayesian inference. Below are some slides and problem sets. I plan to organize, translate, and upload more material when the time allows.

• Slides:
  • 1. Descriptive Statistics
  • 2. Probability
  • 3. Discrete Distributions
  • 4. Continuous Distributions
• Problem Sets:
  • Problem Set 1 and Problem Set 2
  • HW1, HW2, HW3, HW4

Teaching Assistant

Course evaluations available upon request.

• University of Pennsylvania:
• Introductory Macroeconomics (ECON200, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022).
• Monetary Economics & the Global Economy (FNCE1010, 2023).
• Introduction to Economics for Business (ECON10, 2021).
• Universidad de San Andrés:
• Advanced Microeconomics (Graduate, 2020, 2019).
• Public Finance (2020, 2019, 2018).
• Game Theory (2019).
• Intermediate Microeconomics (2019).
• Intermediate Macroeconomics (2018).