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MICROECONOMICS -B
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MICROECONOMICS -B
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Academic year 2018/2019
- Course ID
- MAN0259
- Teaching staff
- Mariacristina Rossi (Lecturer)
Alessandro Manello (Lecturer)
Dott. Piotr Tomasz Bialowolski (Lecturer)
Alessandro Stanchi (Tutor) - Year
- 1st year
- Type
- Basic
- Credits/Recognition
- 9
- Course disciplinary sector (SSD)
- SECS-P/01 - economia politica
- Delivery
- Formal authority
- Language
- English
- Attendance
- Obligatory
- Type of examination
- Written
- Prerequisites
- Basic Math knowledge
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Sommario del corso
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Course objectives
The course is an introduction to economic analysis through elementary microeconomics.
Consumer decisions and firm choices are presented and discussed aiming at the understanding of a free market based system, particularly price formation and efficiency. The easiest models of oligopoly and monopolistic competition are presented as an introduction to more realistic tools for the knowledge of the real world of enterprises.
The course aims at introducing the logic of rational behaviour of consumers and firms, which is useful to recognize and understand relationships among economic agents.- Oggetto:
Results of learning outcomes
Elementary knowledge of concepts and methods of efficient decision making, graphic analysis of simple economic phenomena.
- Use of elementary but abstract microeconomic models, to judge what can happen in the real world of imperfect markets.
- Translate the logic of maximizing behaviour into the day-to-day language. Use of formulas and graphic analysis to explain possible consequences of economic phenomena.- Oggetto:
Course delivery
Lectures and exercise classes included- Oggetto:
Learning assessment methods
Written exam. Multiple choice 20 minutes, 3 exercises 70 minutesThe format allows to assess the achievement of the desired goals. More precisely the format foresees an initial part consisting of multiple choices questions, which are intended to test the knowledge of the theoretical concepts and definitions, and then it features three open questions (exercises), which allow students to apply the appropriate tools (analytical and graphical analysis combined with economic intuition) to more specific problems.
The exam follows the following rules which will be strictly enforced with the goal of ensuring a fair evaluation process
- The exam lasts 90 minutes
- Registration via the ESSE3 system is required;
- Each student can take the exam three times in an academic year (from May to February);
- It is not possible to use books, handouts, notes, etc. during the exam. Only a simple calculator is admitted;
- If the final mark is lower than 11/30, the student cannot resit at the following exam;
- During the exam it is not allowed going out of the room, talking to other students or to the teachers. Student should use at their best all the available information to answer the exam questions.
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Support activities
Exercises in class- Oggetto:
Program
- Preliminaris, basic concept- Demand and supply
- Consumer behaviour
- Individual and market demand
- Production
- Costs
- Profit maximisation
- Competitive markets
- Monopoly and monopsony
- Pricing with market power
- Oligopoly
Suggested readings and bibliography
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- Microeconomics / Robert S. Pindyck, Daniel L. Rubinfeld.
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