Program Overview

Microeconomics Program

Description

The Microeconomics course aims to develop students' skills in understanding, analyzing, and applying decision-making processes of economic actors (consumers, businesses, public authorities) and the functioning of markets in which they operate and interact.

The course is essentially structured into two parts. The first part is dedicated to the study of fundamental concepts of microeconomic theory with reference to competitive market forms. The second part aims to deepen the modes of interaction between different actors in non-competitive market forms (such as oligopoly and monopoly) and introduce some problems related to the absence of markets (asymmetric information, externalities, and public goods).

Frontal lessons will attempt, as far as possible, to involve the class also through the discussion of case studies or thematic insights taken from the current economic context.

The objective is to enable students to clearly understand the interaction between key concepts, to grasp them comprehensively through practice, and to understand how they actually apply to markets and businesses.

Objectives

The Microeconomics course aims to develop students' skills in understanding, analyzing, and applying decision-making processes of economic actors (consumers, businesses, public authorities) and the functioning of markets in which they operate and interact.

Sustainable Development Goals

• Quality education
• Gender equality
• Affordable and clean energy
• Decent work and economic growth
• Industry, innovation, and infrastructure
• Reduced inequalities

Teaching Mode

In presence

Learning Methods

Frontal lessons

Examination Information

Written exam at the end of the course

Bibliography

Compulsory

• Besanko, David A., Braeutigam, Ronald R. McGraw-Hill, 2020. (Previous editions are also acceptable)
• Principle of Microeconomics (It is possible to use an excellent Open Textbook from MIT)

Education

• Master of Arts in Economics and Communication in Public Management and Policy, Lecture, Economics, 1st year
• Master of Science in Economics in Economia e Politiche Internazionali, Lecture, B, 1st year

Additional Information

• Semester: Fall
• Academic year:
• ECTS: 3.0
• Language: Italian