Microeconomics

This course has the main goal to provide the basic economic background the analysis the complexity of the modern economic theory. To this goals the course first analyzes the fundamental determinants of the behaviour of two types of economic agents: consumers (consumption choices) and firms (production choices). Then, the interactions of these agents will be studied in the context of different market structures: perfect competition, monopoly, oligopoly and monopolistic competition.

At the end of this course the students will be comfortable with the tools of the cost-benefit analysis applied to both the individual and the collective choices. Through exercises classes they will have the chance to move from the theory to the practice with specific applications, and this will help them to consolidate the cost-benefit analysis for future applications in other disciplines, as law or political science.