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Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
Basic knowledge of mathematical as required in high school diplomas.
Objectives Contents Economic problems. Demand, supply, equilibrium.
Extended Syllabus An introduction to economic sciences. Demand, supply and market. Demand and supply elasticities. Demand theory. An introduction to supply theory. Technology and costs. Perfect competition and monopoly. Imperfect competition: natural monopoly and monopolistic competition. Oligopoly. An introduction to welfare economics. The economics of the public sector. Introduction to macroeconomics. National product and aggregate expenditure. Fiscal policy and international trade. Money and monetary policy. Goods and money markets. Monetary and fiscal policy. Aggregate supply and the adjustment to macroeconomic shocks. Inflation, expectations and credibility. Unemployment. Exchange rates and the balance of payments. Open economy macroeconomics. Economic growth and cycles. Exchange rate regimes. European integration. Poverty, development, and globalization. History of Economic Analysis: from mercantilism to contemporary theories.
Recommended Bibliography 1) David Begg, Gianluigi Vernasca, Stanley Fischer e Rudiger Dornbusch (2022) Economia, McGraw-Hill Education.
Methods of Provision Teaching Methods The course consists of both lectures and exercises class.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
The final examination is provided in oral form. It aims to verify the understanding of information and topics dealt with in the course, the ability to analyze concepts adopting a correct terminology, the ability to identify conceptual connections. The examination consists of a series of different questions and formal exercises based on the examples discussed during the course and in practical classes.
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