76616 - Crash Course in Economics

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Health Economics and Management (cod. 8880)

    Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Economics and Economic Policy (cod. 8420)

Learning outcomes

The Crash Course aims at providing basic knowledge of standard economic tools of Microeconomics and Macroeconomics.

Course contents

The Crash Course will provide an overview on:

1. Foundations of core economics
2. Foundations of strategic interactions
3. Foundations of information economics
4. Foundations of empirical analysis

Readings/Bibliography

Tom Sargent, University of California at Berkeley graduation speech, May 16, 2007

Greg Mankiw, Principles of Economics (ch. 1-2)

Teaching methods

Oral lectures

Assessment methods

The course has no final exam

Teaching tools

Slides provided by the instructor

Links to further information

https://sites.google.com/site/davidedragone/teaching

Office hours

See the website of Davide Dragone