09446 - Microeconomics (A-L)

Academic Year 2011/2012

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS (cod. 0904)

Learning outcomes

This course will help you understand the behavior of economic participants such as consumers, firms, resource owners, and government.  It will further help you understand the implications of their behavior.

Course contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Supply and demand
  3. Consumer's theory
  4. Individual supply and market supply
  5. Uncertainty and consumer's behaviour
  6. Production
  7. Production costs
  8. Maximizing profits
  9. Perfect competition
  10. Monopoly
  11. Pricing with market power
  12. Oligopoly
  13. Game theory and strategic interaction
  14. Markets for Factor Inputs
  15. General equilibrium and efficiency
  16. Markets with asymmetryc Information
  17. Externalities and public goods

Readings/Bibliography

Robert S. Pindyck e Daniel L. Rubinfeld, Microeconomia, settima edizione italiana condotta sulla settima edizione americana, Pearson Paravia Bruno Mondadori 2009.

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons.

Assessment methods

Written exam. The instructor may require a student to take also an oral examination.

Each exam will contain 4/5 multiple choice questions, 3 short essay questions and 1/2 exercices. Lecture attendance is strongly encouraged.

To take this exam it is strictly required to enrol on Almaesami.

Teaching tools

Blackboard.

Office hours

See the website of Luciano Messori