| Center |
| Faculty of Economics |
| Departament |
| Economic Analysis |
| Lecturers in charge |
| Sin datos cargados |
| Met. Docent |
| Lectures are organized in a combination of theoretical and practical sessions. The student is encouraged throughout to develop the ability to apply the theory in solving problems. This is done through the exercises from the reference textbook. |
| Met. Avaluació |
| To obtain the six credits, students have to pass a written exam at the end of the semester. The final exam includes the whole of the program. |
| Bibliografia |
| Estrin, S. y Laidler, S., Microeconomía. Prentice Hall, 1995 (cuarta edición). Nicholson, W., Teoría Microeconómica. Principios básicos y ampliaciones. Thomson, 2004 (octava edición). Pindyck, R. S. y Rubinfeld, D., Microeconomía. Prentice Hall, 2009 (séptima edición). |
| Continguts |
| Unit 0. Preliminary questions. Optimization. Production and cost. Unit 1. Price determination under perfect competition. Short and long run equilibrium. Comparative statics. Technology. Production externalities. Taxes. Efficiency. Unit 2. Monopolistic market models. Monopoly and monopolistic competition. Unit 3. Price determination in imperfectly competitive markets. Oligopoly models. Unit 4. Input markets. Labor demand and supply. Intertemporal choice and saving. Unit 5. Alternative models of firm?s behavior. |
| Objetius |
| Emphasis is placed on providing the student with a good understanding of the way the modern market economies work. One important target is to make the student conscious of the central role played by incentives and prices in allocating resources. Moreover, we want to provide a comprehensive exposition of the basic tools used in intermediate microeconomics: optimizing agents, equilibrium concept and comparative statics, with which we obtain a rational explanation of the price determination process in both commodity and input markets, and either competitive or non-competitive markets. |
| URL de Fitxa |