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MICROECONOMICS

CODE 41126
ACADEMIC YEAR 2018/2019
CREDITS 9 credits during the 1st year of 8697 Business Administration (L-18) GENOVA

9 credits during the 1st year of 8698 Maritime, Logistics and Transport Economics and Business (L-18) GENOVA

9 credits during the 1st year of 8699 Economics (L-33) GENOVA

SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR SECS-P/01
LANGUAGE Italian
TEACHING LOCATION GENOVA (Business Administration)
SEMESTER 1° Semester
SECTIONING This unit is divided into 4 sections:
PREREQUISITES
Prerequisites (for future units)
This unit is a prerequisite for:
  • Business Administration 8697 (coorte 2018/2019)
  • ECONOMIC POLICY 64452
  • MACROECONOMICS 55648
  • Business Administration 8697 (coorte 2017/2018)
  • ECONOMIC POLICY 64452
  • PUBLIC FINANCE - ECONOMICS OF TAXATION 64836
  • MACROECONOMICS 55648
  • Business Administration 8697 (coorte 2016/2017)
  • ECONOMIC POLICY 64452
  • MACROECONOMICS 55648
  • Maritime, Logistics and Transport Economics and Business 8698 (coorte 2018/2019)
  • TRANSPORT ECONOMICS 63739
  • MACROECONOMICS 55648
  • Maritime, Logistics and Transport Economics and Business 8698 (coorte 2016/2017)
  • TRANSPORT ECONOMICS 63739
  • Maritime, Logistics and Transport Economics and Business 8698 (coorte 2017/2018)
  • TRANSPORT ECONOMICS 63739
  • Economics 8699 (coorte 2017/2018)
  • PUBLIC FINANCE 60078
  • ECONOMIC POLICY 60066
  • MARKET FORMS, PRICES, AND WAGES 64797
  • ECONOMETRICS 24615
  • EU AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS 63744
  • HEALTH ECONOMICS & POLICY 60069
  • ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS 64799
  • Economics 8699 (coorte 2018/2019)
  • MACROECONOMICS 55648
  • ECONOMIC POLICY 60066
  • MARKET FORMS, PRICES, AND WAGES 64797
  • Economics 8699 (coorte 2016/2017)
  • MARKET FORMS, PRICES, AND WAGES 64797
  • ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS 64799
  • EU AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS 63744
  • PUBLIC FINANCE 60078
  • HEALTH ECONOMICS & POLICY 60069
  • ECONOMIC POLICY 60066
  • ECONOMETRICS 24615
TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB

OVERVIEW

Microeconomics provides basics for understanding the functioning of the economic system. Particular attention is paid to the study of the behavior of consumers and firms and the analysis of the role of the market in the resources allocation process.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to provide the first elements for understanding the functioning of the economic system. Particular attention was paid to the study of the behavior of economic entities (consumers and businesses) and the analysis of the role of the market in the allocation process of resources.

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

1. Scarcity and economics; The coordination of individual choices. The evolution of economic thought. The economic models.
2. The theory of consumer behavior. Price-consumption curve and income-consumption curve; individual demand and market demand. Elasticity and expenditure; introduction to behavioral economics.
3. Basic theory of the firm. Production and costs (long-run and short-run). Perfect competition: the individual and the market supply curve. The profit-maximisation hypothesis. The firm and the industry in the long run.
4 Factor demand and supply. Intertemporal choices and uncertainty choices.
5. Market power: monopoly, natural monopoly, product differentiation and monopolistic competition; price discrimination, duopoly (Cournot, Bertrand, Stackelberg). Collusion and prisoner dilemma; sequential games. Management theories. Oligopoly.
7. General equilibrium and welfare.
8. Asymmetric information (adverse selection and moral hazard), externalities, public goods.

 

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Frank R H., Cartwright E., Microeconomia, McGraw-Hill, VII edizione

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

SERENA SCOTTO (President)

LUCA BELTRAMETTI

ANNA BOTTASSO

ANGELA TESTI

LESSONS

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures

LESSONS START

18 September 2018

Class schedule

MICROECONOMICS D

EXAMS

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Assessment

Written exam

Exam schedule

Date Time Location Type Notes
10/01/2019 10:30 GENOVA Scritto
24/01/2019 10:30 GENOVA Scritto
07/02/2019 10:30 GENOVA Scritto
07/06/2019 10:30 GENOVA Scritto
21/06/2019 10:30 GENOVA Scritto
12/07/2019 10:30 GENOVA Scritto
10/09/2019 10:30 GENOVA Scritto

FURTHER INFORMATION

Attendance is recommended. Registration in the Unige learning platform Aulaweb is  recommended