- Docente: Carlo Mazzaferro
- Credits: 10
- SSD: SECS-P/11
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Rimini
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in FINANCE, INSURANCE AND BUSINESS (cod. 8053)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to offer students a set of tools which can be used to understand intertemporal choices with a particular attention to consumption/saving decisions. Topics of the course are macro and microeconomics of pension systems and an analysis of the private pension pillar in Italy.
Course contents
1. Saving in National Accounts
2. The microeconomic approach: intertemporal choices
3. The macreconomic approach: saving, accumulation and growth
4. Pension saving and pension funds
5. Finance methods in pension systems
6. The reform of the private pension pillar in Italy
Readings/Bibliography
Jappelli and Pistaferri: Risparmio e scelte intertemporali, Il Mulino
Teaching tools
Theoretical (60%) and empirical (40%) lectures. In particular the
course will introduce students to the statistical-econometric
package STATA and to the use of microdata (Survey of Households
Income and Wealthof the Bank of Italy) useful to analyse
empirically saving decisions.
Office hours
See the website of Carlo Mazzaferro