- Docente: Alessandro Romagnoli
- Credits: 6
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Alessandro Romagnoli (Modulo 1) Enrico Giannotti (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LS) in Engineering Management (cod. 0453)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to present concepts and models used by business economics to study the firm behavior and the sector dynamics. Particular attention will be payed to the analysis of market forms and of sector structure.
Course contents
FIRST PART: Firm economics
- The firm and the economic system
- Firms and markets
- Evolution of the firm and explaining models
- Traditional firm theory: costs, revenues and profits
- Traditional firm theory:perfect competition, monopoly and monopolistic competition
- Oligopolistic markets theory
- The firm as an institution
SECOND PART: Sector economics
- The sector as a subset of the economic system
- Sector analysis
- The analysis of the demand
- The analysis of the supply
- Firm behavior analysis
- Performance analysis
- Local systems of production: the industrial district
Readings/Bibliography
• L. Barbarito (1999) : L'analisi di settore. Metodologia e applicazioni, Franco Angeli, Milano.
• M. Grillo, F: Silva (1999) : Impresa, concorrenza e organizzazione, Carocci, Roma.
• G. Fornengo (2001) : Lezioni di economia di impresa, Giappichelli, Torino .
• Letture
Assessment methods
The exam will be written by computer.
Office hours
See the website of Alessandro Romagnoli
See the website of Enrico Giannotti