OVERVIEW

The course presents the main operating models of a company in a competitive market in terms of technological constraints, balance sheet, and objective function with real cases as an example.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to provide: a basic and wide-ranging analysis of the company, its structure, its functioning and the conditions that regulate its survival and growth; a stylized representation of the company, which highlights its complexity while aiming at simplification. A compromise will be sought between the vastness of the subject and the limitation of a basic course.

PREREQUISITES

Mo prerequisites

TEACHING METHODS

Frontal lessons

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The main contents of the course are:

- Technology and production

- Costs

- Profit maximization

- Market equilibrium and efficiency

- Externalities

- Information asymmetries

- Increasing returns, network effects and lock-ins in the digital economy

The theoretical contents are exemplified by case studies and statistical analyzes related to the context of Region Liguria

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Arthur B.W. (1996) Increasing returns and the new world of business. Harvard Business Review

Bernheim B.D., Whinston M.D. (2018) Microeconomia. McGrawHill https://www.mheducation.it/microeconomia-3-ed-edizione-custom-bocconi-9788838694561-italy

Haskel & Westlake (2017) Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy  https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691175034/capitalism-without-capital

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

MARCO RABERTO (President)

GIAN CARLO CAINARCA

SILVANO CINCOTTI

SILVIA MASSA

STEFANIA TESTA

MAURIZIO CAVIGLIA (President Substitute)

LESSONS

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

Exam schedule