This unit should enable students to understand how firms and consumers take their decisions and how markets are organized. Recent developments in economic theory, useful to prepare students for applied economic courses, will also be presented. The teaching methods adopted consist of lectures and exercise classes.
Consumer choice
Production and costs
Perfect competition
Monopoly
Imperfect competition and strategic behaviour
General economic equilibrium
Decision-making with risk
Asymmetric information
Textbooks
either
H.R. Varian, Intermediate Microeconomics: A Modern Approach
or
D.A. Besanko & R.R. Braeutigam, Microeconomics
Exercises can be found in many textbooks. An Italian textbook is: G.P. Cipriani & T. Fioroni, Esercizi di Microeconomia, Giappichelli, 2013.
| Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ISBN | Note |
| Cipriani G.P., Fioroni T. | Esercizi di Microeconomia (Edizione 4) | Giappichelli | 2020 | 9788892109308 | |
| Besanko D.A., Braeutigam R.R. | Microeconomia (Edizione 4) | McGraw-Hill Education | 2020 | 9788838695551 | Edizione italiana a cura di Giam Pietro Cipriani, Paolo Coccorese e Stefania Ottone |
| Varian H. | Microeconomia (Edizione 8) | Cafoscarina | 2011 | 9788875433079 |
Closed book examination including a multiple choice test.
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