- Docente: Enrico Santarelli
- Credits: 6
- SSD: SECS-P/01
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Enrico Santarelli (Modulo 1) Rossella Verzulli (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Statistical Sciences (cod. 8873)
Learning outcomes
The course aims to provide students with a thorough understanding of the basic main micro- and macro-economic principles.
Course contents
The course is intended for beginning students and offers an introduction to microeconomics and macroeconomics. The part dealing with microeconomics focuses on the theory of demand and supply, the determination of market equilibrium, and the economic analysis of consumers' and firms’ behavior. It continues with the discussion of some causes of market failure, including externalities, public goods and informational asymmetries. Finally, it will offer an overview of the theory of the market. The part dealing with macroeconomics gives an overview of the behavior of economic aggregates, including topics such as national income, savings, investments, labor markets, international trade. Specifically, this part of the program studies some data of macroeconomics, the real economy in the long run, money and prices in the long run, the macroeconomics of open economies, short-run economic fluctuations, international finance.
Readings/Bibliography
Mankiw, N. G. - Taylor, M.P. ( 2018), PRINCIPI DI ECONOMIA, Bologna: Zanichelli, VII ed.
Teaching methods
Lectures. Class discussions.
Case studies. Classroom experiments.
Assessment methods
Final written exam
Teaching tools
Other teaching material, including slides used during the lectures and papers on specific topics, will be made available to students through the iol system.
Elaborations on observational data available on: http://www.core-econ.org/doing-economics
Classroom experiments based on the on line platform: https://economics-games.com/
Office hours
See the website of Enrico Santarelli
See the website of Rossella Verzulli
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.