PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS I (MICROECONOMICS)
Course unit partition: Cognomi A-D

Academic year 2011/12
1° year of course -
Professor
Academic discipline
()
Field
Ambito aggregato per crediti di sede
Type of training activity
hours
of face-to-face activities
credits
hub:
course unit
in

Learning objectives

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

Prerequisites

- - -

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

Full programme

- - -

Bibliography

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

Teaching methods

Oral lesson

Assessment methods and criteria

Written exam

Other information

- - -