- Docente: Daniela Iorio
- Credits: 8
- SSD: SECS-P/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Economics, Markets and Institutions (cod. 8038)
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from Feb 12, 2024 to May 22, 2024
Learning outcomes
The course aims to provide the analytical tools to study the behavior of economic agents (consumers, firms, governments) and their interactions in the market. At the end of the course the student is expected to be familiar with the theoretical framework and analytical tools microeconomists use to study markets' functioning, structures, and government interventions.
Course contents
Supply and demand
Rational consumer theory
Individual demand and market demand
Applications of rational choice and demand theories
Choices under uncertainty
Production Theory
Market structures: Perfect competition, Monopoly, and Oligopoly
Introduction to game theory approach
Market efficiency and Welfare Analysis
Markets failures. Externalities and Public good provision.
Government interventions
Readings/Bibliography
Microeconomia; Robert H. Frank e Edward Cartwright
Assessment methods
Written exams
Office hours
See the website of Daniela Iorio