- Docente: Fabio Zagonari
- Credits: 8
- SSD: SECS-P/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Rimini
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Economics of Tourism (cod. 8847)
Learning outcomes
The student will be familiar with the main concepts of Microecnomics and in a position to apply them to tourism markets. In particular, she/he will be able to understand consumer and firm behaviours as well as torusim markets; and to analyse the different market characteristics.
Course contents
methodological issues
consumer decisions: preferences, ordinal utility, experimental
economics
utility maximisation and expenditure minimisation
individual and market demand, demand elasticity
decisions under uncertainty: preferences, expecterd utility,
experimental economics
firm decisions: production, costs
profit maximisation and cost minimisation
individual and market supply, supply elasticity
partial equilibrium and government interventions
general equilibrium
imperfect competition
monopoly
monopolistic competition
oligopoly (a la bertrand, a la cournot, a la stackelberg,
collusive and non collusive)
asymmetric information
hidden action
hidden information
positive and negative externalities
actions
goods
Readings/Bibliography
Frank,
Microeconomia, McGraw-Hill, ultima edizione
Zagonari, Lineamenti di economia, Hoepli, ultima
edizione
Teaching methods
Lectures are integrated by tutorials.
Assessment methods
Written examination, 1 hour long and based on 4 questions. Notes or other materials are not allaowed.
Teaching tools
An hand-out "Integrazioni logico-matematiche".
Office hours
See the website of Fabio Zagonari