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CODE 41126
ACADEMIC YEAR 2022/2023
CREDITS
SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR SECS-P/01
LANGUAGE Italian
TEACHING LOCATION
  • GENOVA
SEMESTER 1° Semester
SECTIONING Questo insegnamento è diviso nelle seguenti frazioni:
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • PREREQUISITES
    Propedeuticità in uscita
    Questo insegnamento è propedeutico per gli insegnamenti:
    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 is paid to the study of the behavior of economic actors (consumers and firms) and the analysis of the role of the market in the resources allocation process.

    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

    MAURIZIO CONTI (President)

    CONCETTA MENDOLICCHIO

    LESSONS

    LESSONS START

    September 2022

    Class schedule

    MICROECONOMICS A

    EXAMS

    ASSESSMENT METHODS

    Assessment

    Written exam

    Exam schedule

    Data appello Orario Luogo Degree type Note
    09/01/2023 09:00 GENOVA Scritto
    23/01/2023 09:00 GENOVA Scritto
    06/02/2023 09:00 GENOVA Scritto
    10/05/2023 11:00 GENOVA Scritto
    10/05/2023 11:00 GENOVA Scritto
    05/06/2023 09:00 GENOVA Scritto
    19/06/2023 09:00 GENOVA Scritto
    10/07/2023 09:00 GENOVA Scritto
    11/09/2023 09:00 GENOVA Scritto

    FURTHER INFORMATION

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