Educational guide Faculty of Economics and Business |
english |
Degree of Economics (2009) |
Subjects |
INTRODUCTION TO MICROECONOMICS |
Contents |
IDENTIFYING DATA | 2014_15 |
Subject | INTRODUCTION TO MICROECONOMICS | Code | 16224004 | |||||
Study programme |
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Cycle | 1st | |||||
Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
6 | Basic Course | First | 1Q |
Competences | Learning outcomes | Contents |
Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
Topic | Sub-topic |
PART I. Competitive markets | |
1. Competitive Markets: demand | • Incentives and Exchange • Market demand, • The law of demand and price elasticity of demand |
2. Competitive Markets: supply and equilibrium | • Market supply, production, factor prices and other factors • The law of supply and price elasticity of supply • Equilibrium and market forces • Comparative static analysis • Welfare analysis: consumer surplus, producer surplus and efficiency |
3. Intervention in Competitive Markets | • Price ceilings and minimum wages • Taxes and subsidies • Tax incidence |
4. International Trade | • Integration of a small market • Integration of a large market • Tariffs, import quotas, export subsidies |
5. Externalities, Public Goods and Incomplete Information | • Externalities: a problem for markets • Solutions • The problem of providing public goods through markets • Solutions to the insufficient private provision of public goods • The lack of information: a problem for markets • Solutions |
TEMES DE MICROECONOMIA | |
6. És positiva la globalització econòmica? | |
7. El problema de les externalitats | |
8. El problema dels béns públics | |
9. El problema de la informació incompleta | |
10. Hi ha sempre competència als mercats? |