Dettagli sull'Insegnamento per l'A.A. 2018/2019
Nome:
Economia Applicata All'ingegneria / Engineering Economics
Informazioni
Crediti:
: Laurea in Ingegneria dell'Informazione 6 CFU (c)
Erogazione:
Laurea in Ingegneria dell'Informazione 3rd anno curriculum Automatica Elective
Lingua:
Italiano
Prerequisiti
The student must know the basic notions of Calculus contained in the exams Calculus I and II
Obiettivi
The goal of this course is to provide the fundamentals of microeconomics and investment decision. The course begins with an introduction to supply and demand and the basic forces that determine an equilibrium in a market economy. Next, it introduces the study of consumer behavior and analyze consumer decisions. Then we turn our attention to firms and their decisions about optimal production and the impact of different market structures on firm’s behavior. The final section of the course provides an introduction to the more important criteria utilized in investment decisions.
Sillabo
- Introduction to microeconomics: the market, the demand curve and the supply curve, market equilibrium, Pareto efficiency.
- Consumer behavior: the budget constraint, consumer preferences, utility, marginal utility, indifference curves, marginal rate of substitution, consumer optimal choices and consumer demand curve, the inverse demand function, Slutsky equation, consumer’s and producer’s surplus, market equilibrium, Elasticity.
- Firm behavior: input and outputs, technological constraints, properties of technology, the marginal product, the technical rate of substitution, profit maximization in the short run and in the long run, cost minimization, cost curves, firm and industry supply.
- Market structures: competitive market, monopoly, price discrimination, monopolistic competition, factor market, oligopoly and basic game theory.
- Investment decisions: basic criteria for investment analysis such as: Net Present Value, Internal Rate of substitution, Payback period
Descrittori di Dublino
Alla fine del corso, lo studente dovrebbe
- understand consumer behavior, understand firm behavior
- analyze different types of market structures (competitive market, monopoly, oligopoly), have knowledge and understanding of how to apply economic principles to a range of policy questions
- demonstrate capacity for reading and understand investment decisions.
Testi di riferimento
- Varian, Microeconomia , Cafoscarina . 2010.
Modalità d'esame
Written and oral exam.
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