- Docente: Tito Pietra
- Credits: 8
- SSD: SECS-P/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Economics and Finance (cod. 0893)
Course contents
Budget constraints. Preferences and utility. Demand functions.
Revealed preferences. Slutsky decomposition. Labor supply.
Intertemporal choice. Consumer's surplus. Aggregate demand and
partial equilibrium. General equilibrium. Optimality. Production
theory. Market structures.
Readings/Bibliography
H.R. Varian, Microeconomia. Cafoscarina, 2007, V| edizione.
M.M. Cati, Eserciziario di Microeconomia, Esculapio Editore, 2010, IV ed.
On line, at http://www2.dse.unibo.it/pietra/micro/ESERCIZI%20MICRO-CLEF.pdf, you may find additional problems.
Teaching methods
There are 48 hours of lectures and some additional hours for
recitations. The midterm exam is scheduled for October 26,
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Assessment methods
The exam is composed by 2 parts. The first is given by 21 multiple choice questions. The second by several open questions (they could be exercises or theoretical questions). Several texts of past exams are available at http://www2.dse.unibo.it/pietra/MICROECONOMIA.PAGE.htm.
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The exam is usually just written. In particular circumstances,
the professor may require to some students an additional
exam.
If your score is 18 or above YOU CANNOT take the exam
again.
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There will be no departure from these rules.
Links to further information
http://www.dse.unibo.it/pietra/
Office hours
See the website of Tito Pietra