Grau d'Administració i Direcció d'Empreses (2009) |
Subjects |
INTRODUCCIÓ A LA MICROECONOMIA |
Contents |
IDENTIFYING DATA | 2009_10 |
Subject | INTRODUCCIÓ A LA MICROECONOMIA | Code | 16214004 | |||||
Study programme |
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Cycle | 1st | |||||
Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
6 | Formació bàsica | First | First |
Competences | Learning outcomes | Contents |
Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
Topic | Sub-topic |
Introduction | |
PART I. Competitive markets | |
1. Competitive market | • Incentives to trade • Market demand: consumption, relative prices and other factors • Market supply: production, relative prices and other factors • Equilibrium and market forces • Comparative statics: law of supply and demand; elasticity • Equilibrium evaluation: consumer surplus, producer surplus, efficiency |
2. Intervention in competitive markets | • Maximum and minimum prices • Consumption (production) tax • Tax burden on consumers and producers • Subsidies and guaranteed prices |
3. Global competitive markets | • International integration of a small market • International integration of a large market • Tariffs, quotas, export subsidies |
PART II. Market failures | |
4. Public goods | • Public goods as a problem for markets • Solutions to the insufficient private provision of a public good |
5. Externalities | • Externalities as a problem for markets • Solutions |
6. Incomplete information | • Incomplete information as a problem for markets • Solutions |
7. Non-competitive markets | • Imperfect competition (causes: economies of scale, barriers to entry) • Monopoly • Solutions (regulation, price discrimination) |