- Docente: Carlo Mazzaferro
- Credits: 10
- SSD: SECS-P/01
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Carlo Mazzaferro (Modulo 1) Roberto Patuelli (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Rimini
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in FINANCE, INSURANCE AND BUSINESS (cod. 8053)
Learning outcomes
To give students fundamental theoretical basic microeconomic as well as macroeconomic principles. At the end of the course the student should be able to interpret the behaviour of and the interactions between: consumers, firms and public sector within a market economy. Particular focus will be given to the theory of consumption, the theory of production and market analysis.
Course contents
1. Demand and supply in a market economy
2. Elasticity and its applications
3. The demand theory and consumer behaviour
4. Supply theory, thecnology and production costs
5. Markets and welfare: consumer surplus
6. Supply, demand and economic policy
7. Perfect competition and monopoly
8. Introduction to the macroeconomics
9. National income
10. Production and growth in the long run
11. Saving, investment and the financial sector
12. The natural unemployment rate
13. The monetary system and the Central Bank
14. Monetary growth and the inflation
15. aggrregate demand and supply
16.Short run fluctuations and economic policies
Readings/Bibliography
Mankiw, G.- M. Taylor, L'essenziale di economia, Quinta edizione, Zanichelli, 2011 (Capp. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
Teaching methods
Assessment methods
At the end of the course a written test will be offered to students that have attended lectures. Alternatively there is a horal examinations
Teaching tools
Office hours
See the website of Carlo Mazzaferro
See the website of Roberto Patuelli