- Docente: Flavio Delbono
- Credits: 6
- SSD: SECS-P/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Management for Social Economy (cod. 6802)
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from Sep 16, 2025 to Oct 15, 2025
Learning outcomes
The aim of this course consists in providing concepts and microeconomic tools needed for the analysis of behaviour and markets within the "third sector". The course will allow participants to: gain a proper terminology;, handle simple models, find out and organize data; examine relevant case-studies.
Course contents
1. Microeconomics brushing up
2. State, market and third sector
3. Market imperfections
4. Adverse selection and moral hazard
5. Financing the third sector
6. (Briefly) Welfare sistems
7. Cooperatives firms
Readings/Bibliography
For studens lacking economic background, a preliminary reading is the volume by L. Becchetti, L. Bruni e S. Zamagni, Microeconomia, Il Mulino, 2010 (chapters. 2-6, 10, 11). The textbook of the course is F. Amati, S. D'Acunto e M. Musella, Economia politica del Terzo settore, Giappichelli, 2021 (except chapter 5).
Teaching methods
Standard front teaching.
Assessment methods
The exam is written in presence. The grade is scaled as follows:
0-17: failed
18-23: sufficient
24-27: good
28-30: very good
30 e lode: excellent
Teaching tools
The textbook and slides or articles uploaded on Virtuale.
Office hours
See the website of Flavio Delbono