- Docente: Alessandro Romagnoli
- Credits: 12
- SSD: SECS-P/01
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Alessandro Romagnoli (Modulo 1) Alessandro Romagnoli (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
First cycle degree programme (L) in
Engineering Management (cod. 0925)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Engineering Management (cod. 0936)
Learning outcomes
The course introduces to the understanding of modern economic
systems, to their evolution, and to their features (production
processes and markets) in an international environments. A specific
economic analysis both of financial and information sectors and of
their markets will be provided, as well as the models explaining
the firm's economic behaviour will be deepen. Lectures will enable
the students to know the working of the economic system, the
different kinds of market and of firm, and their problems
Course contents
1. THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM
1.1 Emergence and evolution of the modern
economic system
Technological and social change in the evolution of
capitalism
The features
of capitalist economies
1.2 Structure, working and accounting of
modern economic systems
Structure
and coordination of modern economic systems
Concepts and
indicators for the appraisal of the performance of the
economies
2. ECONOMIC AGENTS
2.1 Firms, househols and government
The
production process and its analytical units
The industrial sectors as a
subset of the economy
The
household and the market demand
2.2 Focus: The production of financial and
information services
Finantial sector
Information and communication sectors
3. THE COORDINATION OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES
3.1 The market
Market
general features and typologies
The economic
analysis of the market
3.2 Focus: Financial and information
markets
Financial
services and markets
Information
services, advertizing and information markets
4. THE ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE FIRM
4.1 The firm
Evolution
and models of firm behaxiour
4.2 The traditional theory of the firm: The firm as
an algorithm
Costs,
revenues, profits
The competitive
firm, monopoly and monopolistic competition
4.3 Oligopoly
Models of oligopoly: Cournot, Osborne, Stackelberg, Bertrand and
Sweezy
Barriers and
price as a strategic variable
4.4 The firm as an organization
Towards
the firm as an organization: Baumol and Marris managerial
models
The firm
as an organization: the contract approach
The firm
as an organization: the systemic-evolutionary approasch
5. INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION
5.1 Sector's structure and competition
Concentration, integration and diversification
5.2 Focus: Industrial production in
Italy
The
evolution of Italian industry
Industrial
districts
Readings/Bibliography
L. Barbarito (1999) L'analisi di settore. Metodologia e
applicazioni, Milano, Franco Angeli
G. Fornengo (2007) Lezioni di economia di impresa, Torino,
Giappichelli
F. Galimberti, R. Sabbatini, G. R. Simone (a cura di) (2009)
Come si legge Il Sole-24 ore, Milano, Il Sole-24 ore
Notes and papers distributed by the teacher
Assessment methods
Students attendibg lectures must participate actively and execute
ongoing texts. Students not attending must study a list of
references (previously agreed with the teacher) to prepare
themselves for a computer exam consisting of two parts, the first
acceding to the second, if positive.
Office hours
See the website of Alessandro Romagnoli