Unit MICROECONOMICS
- Course
- Business administration
- Study-unit Code
- 20004609
- Location
- PERUGIA
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2020
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Economico
- Academic discipline
- SECS-P/01
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
MICROECONOMICS - Cognomi A-L
| Code | 20004609 |
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| Location | PERUGIA |
| CFU | 9 |
| Teacher | Carlo Andrea Bollino |
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| Hours |
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| Learning activities | Base |
| Area | Economico |
| Academic discipline | SECS-P/01 |
| Type of study-unit | Obbligatorio (Required) |
| Language of instruction | Italian |
| Contents | The complete course is structured in 9 modules which focus on: the concept of economics in the history of economic thought, the aims and methods of economic science, the fundamental characteristic of the method of economic investigation; the analysis of consumer and firm behavior and the different forms of market equilibrium: perfect competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, monopsony; the analysis of strategic interactions (game theory); the analysis of the optimal choices under external constraints; the main market failures. Although the discussion of some topics provides technical insights, including the mathematical techniques of constrained optimization, the general orientation of the course is aimed at the methodological and institutional understanding of the modern microeconomic theory. |
| Reference texts | M.L. Katz – H.S. Rosen – C.A. Bollino – W. Morgan, Microeconomia, VI ed., McGraw-Hill, Milano, 2020 |
| Educational objectives | The Microeconomics course provides the fundamental analytical tools for the study of the Economy theory and the foundations for understanding the behavior of economic agents and the market equilibrium. |
| Prerequisites | none |
| Teaching methods | Classroom Lectures |
| Other information | No |
| Learning verification modality | The exam takes place in written form (two intermediate written tests at home, two written tests in class: intermediate and final), preparatory to the oral exam, optional, which consists of short questions and the discussion of theoretical topics. |
| Extended program | PART I 1 Introduction to economic theory 2 Theory of consumer choices 3 Theory of the firm 4 Competitive market equilibrium PART II 5 Market power 6 Market power and strategies 7 General economic Equilibrium 8 Market failures and public intervention 9 Topics on choices in conditions of uncertainty |
MICROECONOMICS - Cognomi M-Z
| Code | 20004609 |
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| Location | PERUGIA |
| CFU | 9 |
| Teacher | Francesco Venturini |
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| Hours |
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| Learning activities | Base |
| Area | Economico |
| Academic discipline | SECS-P/01 |
| Type of study-unit | Obbligatorio (Required) |
| Language of instruction | Italian |
| Contents | Consumption theory. Firm theory. Markets with and without imperfections |
| Reference texts | Robert H. Frank, Edward Cartwright. MICROECONOMIA 7/ED McGraw-Hill, Milano, 2017 |
| Educational objectives | The course of Microeconomics provides the main analytical tools for studying economics and main concepts for understanding the agents’ behaviour and the conditions of market equilibrium. |
| Prerequisites | None |
| Teaching methods | Face-to-face |
| Other information | None |
| Learning verification modality | Written exam |
| Extended program | The course is based on 4 modules: 1) economics and evolution of the historical thought, scopes and methods of economics, main characteristics of economic analysis; 2) analysis of consumer behavour; 3) analysis of firm behaviour; 4) markets: perfect competition, monopoly, imperect competition and game theory |