Economics and management | University of Parma

Professor
Academic discipline: Economia applicata (SECS-P/06)
Field: Economico
Type of training activity: Characterising

72 hours
of face-to-face activities

9 credits

hub: PARMA

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exam calls

Course unit divided into the following partitions:

Learning objectives

The goal of this course is to make students acquainted with principles, methods and objects of microeconomics

Prerequisites

None

Course unit content

Introduction to Microeconomics
Theory of consumer choice
How markets work: demand and supply
Micro in practice: wages and labor supply, interest rates and savings, primary education in Kenya
Markets and welfare
Micro in practice: the cost of taxation, international trade
Public microeconomics
Information economics
Firms and market structures
Micro in practice: antitrust policies, OPEC, advertising
Labor market functioning
Micro in practice: inequality, poverty, economics of discrimination

Full programme

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Bibliography

Mankiw, N.G., Principi di Economia - Microeconomia, Zanichelli editore, 2004 (3^ edizione), capp.1-2, 4-21, 22

Teaching methods

Oral lecture

Assessment methods and criteria

Written exam

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